Environmental Remote Sensing at SSEC

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

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News: Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The Wisconsin Idea and Sam Batzli of WisconsinView Click here to watch via Wisconsin Public Television's "Here and Now" of 4/18/08

Director cultivates a mile-high appreciation of Wisconsin Read the Profile of 4/18/08

Batzli is the director of WisconsinView, a federally funded program that offers a free Web service for easy access to a variety of statewide images and data. “We basically provide a shortcut,” Batzli says. “WisconsinView offers free access to public domain data sets that would otherwise be difficult or expensive to acquire.”
Images of California Fires Sharpens Focus on Loss of Satellites Watch the CNN Story of 10/25/07

Satellite woes raise concern 2:04

Critics say losing Earth-watching sensors endangers the ability to track natural disasters. CNN's Miles O'Brien reports

View of California fires from Aqua MODIS satellite at 4:00 pm local time, 10/22/07

View from Aqua MODIS satellite at 4:00 pm local time, 10/22/07

Acquired by direct broadcast and processed at the UW's Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)

Destruction from the Wisconsin Tornado Outbreak of June 7th, 2007 is visible in satellite imagery processed at ERSC. An F3 tornado cut a swath of destruction approximately 35 miles (56km) long and in places nearly 1/2 a mile wide (800m) from Menominee County across southeastern Langlade and northern Oconto Counties. Clear skies on June 9th made it possible to see the destruction swath in imagery collected by the MODIS sensor on both the Terra (12:28pm) and Aqua (2:09pm) satellite overpasses. -- Sam Batzli June 9, 2007

NOAA's National Weather Service page June 8, 2007
NASA's Earth Observatory page June 11, 2007
SSEC's Spotlight page
SSEC-ERSC's Tornado page
Imagery Downloads: WisconsinView.org

Daily imagery of Wisconsin is routinely colleted and processed here at the Space Science & Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and can be viewed through ERSC MODIS ImageServer or our Direct Broadcast site.

ERSC Web-mapping services support Conservation International. By using Open Geospatial Consortium standards for WMS (web mapping services), ERSC is publishing data layers that enable a web mapping project at Conservation International. The site showcases collaborative conservation case studies in an interactive web-map facilitated by the Google Maps API and MapServer technology. Puneet Kishor developed the site with contributions from Sam Batzli at ERSC-SSEC and others.

The interactive map allows users to pan, zoom, turn on/off layers, and even contribute case study information.

Past ERSC News Items.

Landsat ETM+ Image (click for larger image)

ERSC Mission:

To provide a physical and intellectual focus...

for interdisciplinary research...

on the development and application of remote sensing...

in natural resource management and environmental monitoring.

Summer intern uses hand-held spectroradiometer

Shuttle Imaging Radar image of southern Wisconsin

Space Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR-C) image of southern Wisconsin