Terrestrial Remote Sensing (TRS) deals with gathering information about the Earth from a distance. This can be done from a few meters off the Earth's surface, an aircraft flying hundreds to thousands of meters above the surface, or a satellite orbiting hundreds of kilometers above the Earth.

• a synoptic/regional view compared to ground sampling,
• cost effectiveness,
• high spatial resolution and coverage compared to ground sampling, and
• relatively high temporal coverage on a long-term basis.

What We Do

Within our group we have developed expertise and capabilities to work with satellite multispectral, airborne photos, shipborne sidescan sonar, and DEM digital images. The capabilities include geometric and radiometric calibration and corrections, digital mosaicking, multitemporal change detection, and extraction and mapping of earth science information for various applications.

• Central California regional DEM and Bathymetry image products, which include San Francisco, Santa Clara, and Monterey Bay areas shaded relief and stereo images.
• San Francisco Bay area multitemporal change detection and water parameter mapping (includes vegetation and urban changes, as well as mapping suspended sediment information).
• Gulf of the Farallones regional bathymetry and sidescan sonar digital mosaics and stereo images.
• Southwestern United States wind erosion vulnerability mapping using Landsat MSS satellite images.
• Antarctica digital mosaic using AVHRR images with and without stereo.
• Use of satellite and DEMs to evaluate the ground water resources of the Flagstaff area.
• For access to the most current remote sensing and digital analyses results and software information available on the TerraWeb server, return to our home page.