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I decided to make my dreams come true and have my own slashsite. Wanting to migrate my successful GIS / RS mailing list to slash. http://www.matox.com/agisrs

SlashCSS is not "ready yet". I though it would be easy to setup the site, but even with a lot of help from the slash mailing lists and http://www.lottadot.com/ . A few weeks will be required for our launch announcement.

SlashCSS is really a great step in the right direction, however, my advice, if you're planning building a slash site, wait a little while, the whole process will be easier for you.

We chose slash over other CMS http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ mainly because of the great (even if flawed) moderation system.

Landsat-7 is available freely and cover the whole world, but it's only 15 m (panchromatic) and 30 m (multispectral)

ASTER L1B is also free but the cover is not complete. It's very good data with 3 bands in VNIR. 15 bands total.

SRTM-DEM, for topography, is also great and free. 3 arc-second of horizontal resolution and about 5 m vertically (relative, not absolute). It really is useful data for topography, and it's free.

Where to find this data? Start on my Remote Sensing Table http://www.matox.com/agisrs/arsist

As for software, yes, GRASS GIS works fine on MacOS X, *but*, the learning curve is very steep. I don't know MacGPS Pro. See the two other comments http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155849&cid =13067619 and http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155849&cid =13067710

If I were you, I would try to ask somewhere else than /.. Nothing against the /. crowd, it just doesn't hurt to have a second opinion, especially if it comes from GIS/RS experts. You can try the Applied-GIS-RS mailing list http://www.matox.com/agisrs but there are a lot of other groups of GIS/RS specialists. Good luck!

Landsat-7 is available freely and cover the whole world, but it's only 15 m (panchromatic) and 30 m (multispectral)

ASTER L1B is also free but the cover is not complete. It's very good data with 3 bands in VNIR. 15 bands total.

SRTM-DEM, for topography, is also great and free. 3 arc-second of horizontal resolution and about 5 m vertically (relative, not absolute). It really is useful data for topography, and it's free.

Where to find this data? Start on my Remote Sensing Table http://www.matox.com/agisrs/arsist

As for software, yes, GRASS GIS works fine on MacOS X, *but*, the learning curve is very steep. I don't know MacGPS Pro. See the two other comments http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155849&cid =13067619 and http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155849&cid =13067710

If I were you, I would try to ask somewhere else than /.. Nothing against the /. crowd, it just doesn't hurt to have a second opinion, especially if it comes from GIS/RS experts. You can try the Applied-GIS-RS mailing list http://www.matox.com/agisrs but there are a lot of other groups of GIS/RS specialists. Good luck!

Wiki is great. I mean *GREAT*. But it has limitations. Such as the file size for every entry.

I discovered this when I wanted to put on wiki my list of Earth Observation Remote Sensing Satellites. Such spreadsheets are NOT wiki-friendly. This, hopefully, will change with time.

Open source 3D for GIS : vterrain.org

See also openscenegraph.org

Both can use Remote Sensing data.

FYI, link to an up-to-date Remote Sensing Imagery Summary Table. Taken from the Applied-GIS-RS mailing list website.

24h after original post.. late.. but worthed I guess :-)

FYI, link to an up-to-date Remote Sensing Imagery Summary Table. Taken from the Applied-GIS-RS mailing list website.

24h after original post.. late.. but worthed I guess :-)