Resources
GIS and remote sensing
Guides, data, and free training for maps and Earth observation.
GIS
Desktop software, libraries, and base data for making and analysing maps.
- Download QGIS Install the free desktop app used in the QGIS course.
- QGIS user manual Look up a tool while you work.
- QGIS training manual Practice lessons written by the QGIS project.
- GRASS GIS Learn the analysis toolbox that also runs inside QGIS.
- GDAL Translate, clip, and reproject raster and vector files.
- PostGIS Store and query map layers in a database.
- GeoPandas Work with vector layers in Python.
- PROJ Read how coordinate transforms are defined.
- EPSG.io Search a coordinate reference system by name or code.
- Natural Earth Download coastlines, borders, and cities for a basemap.
- Learn OSM Map roads and buildings with OpenStreetMap.
Optical remote sensing
Satellites that record reflected sunlight, including Landsat and Sentinel-2.
- Landsat How the Landsat satellites observe land.
- Landsat missions USGS guides to each Landsat satellite and its bands.
- Sentinel-2 The Copernicus guide to the optical land mission.
- Copernicus Browser View Sentinel images without installing software.
- SNAP ESA’s free desktop app for opening satellite products.
Radar
Imaging radar, in the same spirit as the radar shelf on EO College.
- What is SAR A short NASA explanation of radar imaging.
- Sentinel-1 The Copernicus guide to the radar mission.
- Alaska Satellite Facility Search and download Sentinel-1 scenes.
- EO College radar materials Free radar lessons inside the EO College library.
Hyperspectral
Sensors that record hundreds of narrow bands, as on the EO College hyperspectral shelf.
- EnMAP The German hyperspectral satellite and its data guides.
- AVIRIS NASA’s airborne hyperspectral instrument.
- EO College hyperspectral materials Hyperspectral lessons in the EO College library.
Data you can open
Search portals for satellite scenes, daily imagery, and elevation.
- EarthExplorer Search the USGS archive, including Landsat.
- Copernicus Data Space Download Sentinel products.
- NASA Earthdata Search Find NASA scenes and granules.
- NASA Worldview Browse daily images of the whole planet.
- Google Earth Engine Analyse large satellite archives in the browser.
- OpenTopography Download elevation data, including lidar.
Land, water, and climate
Ready-made maps and services built from Earth observation.
- ESA WorldCover Global land-cover maps.
- Copernicus Climate Climate data from the Copernicus services.
- Copernicus Emergency Maps produced when a disaster happens.
- WaPOR FAO water-productivity data from satellites.
- UN-SPIDER Training and data links for disaster mapping.
Free training
Courses and lessons you can take beside the ones on this platform.
- NASA ARSET Free applied remote-sensing courses for every level.
- Fundamentals of Remote Sensing ARSET’s starting course on how satellites observe Earth.
- EO College Browse their full library of Earth-observation lessons.
- Copernicus education Courses and the Copernicus Academy.
Classrooms
Shorter pages and picture stories for teaching, like the schools shelf on EO College.
- ESA Kids Earth pages written for younger learners.
- NASA Earth Observatory Picture stories that explain a scene from space.
- EO College for schools Teaching materials gathered for classrooms.