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TerraLook: GIS-Ready Time-Series of Satellite Imagery for Monitoring Change

December 18, 2008

TerraLook is a joint project of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) with a goal of providing satellite images that anyone can use to see changes in the Earth's surface over time. Each TerraLook product is a user-specified collection of satellite images selected from imagery archived at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. Images are bundled with standards-compliant metadata, a world file, and an outline of each image's ground footprint, enabling their use in geographic information systems (GIS), image processing software, and Web mapping applications. TerraLook images are available through the USGS Global Visualization Viewer (http://glovis.usgs.gov).

Publication Year 2008
Title TerraLook: GIS-Ready Time-Series of Satellite Imagery for Monitoring Change
DOI 10.3133/fs20083024
Authors
Publication Type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Series Title Fact Sheet
Series Number 2008-3024
Index ID fs20083024
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center