The Space Studies Department maintains an image processing lab for research on data sets from Landsat, weather satellites and planetary missions such as the Magellan probe to Venus. The department maintains a satellite receiving dish that can download weather data directly.

The image shown here is a false color Landsat Thermatic Mapper image of Grand Forks, North Dakota. It was made by projecting three of the TM bands in primary colors; band 4 (0.76 - 0.9 microns) in red, band 5 (1.55 - 1.75 microns) in green, and band 7 (2.08 - 2.35 microns) in blue.

The Imaging Lab has a variety of computers, software, and associated equipment available, including:

Computers

• Sun Ultra 10 Creator
• 2 SGI Octane graphics workstations
• Several high end Intel PC workstations running XP
• Department Linux server
• ERDAS server
• Websurveyor server
• SPOT Imaging Microscope Mac G5
• Various other PC's and Macintosh machines
• Various printers, including color & b/w laser
• Satellite Receiving Station

• SUN 1/2 inch tape drive
• Datastor 8mm tape drive
• CD writers on all computer, several DVD writers.

• Complete set of microwave radiometer data from the Nimbus-7 satellite (SMMR) and DMSP series of satellites (SSM/I).
• Earth:
• Landsat, SPOT multispectral scenes
• ERS, JERS, ALMAZ, SIR-C radar images
• NOAA AVHRR weather satellite images
• Digital topography of USA
• Moon: Complete Clementine CD collection
• Venus: Complete Magellen radar images and topography
• Mars: Subsets of Viking Orbiter digital images
• Complete NASA CD collection of all Voyager images (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)
• Growing collection of CCD images acquired by the Dept. of Space Studies Observatory

Please review our Lab Etiquette page before using the lab.