While looking for some remote sensing data last week, I ran into
spatial-analyst.net, which I think deserves the FE-website-discovery-of-the-month award. The wiki has pages dedicated to things like "
How to download and resample MODIS images". It's geared towards R users, and I'm kind of a Matlab guy, but it's still clearly useful to both parties. For example, I really like their
page pointing to various global datasets, some interesting examples of which are here:
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Lightning_map.png/500px-Lightning_map.png) |
Lighting flash rate |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Pcpopd2.png/500px-Pcpopd2.png) |
Second principle component of recent population density changes |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Shipping_routes.png/500px-Shipping_routes.png) |
Commercial shipping density |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Gcarb.png/500px-Gcarb.png) |
Carbon density tones of C / ha. |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Gaccessm.png/500px-Gaccessm.png) |
Estimated travel time to major cities (>50k) in hours |
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