Abstract

NASA Earth Observations (NEO): Imagery for Outreach and Education
Track: Parks and Natural Reserves
Author(s): Kevin Ward

NASA Earth Observations (NEO) dramatically simplifies public
access to georeferenced imagery of NASA remote sensing data.
NEO targets the unsophisticated, non-traditional data users who
are currently underserved by the existing data ordering systems.
These users include formal and informal educators, museum and
science center personnel, professional communicators, citizen
scientists and amateur Earth observers. NEO currently serves
imagery from 34 different datasets with daily, weekly, and
monthly temporal resolutions. Currently there are 6 additional
datasets under development that shall be published by mid-
2008. Using any web browser, users are able to view and
manipulate georeferenced browse imagery within NEO (e.g.,
applying color palettes, resizing, importing to NASA's Earth
Observatory's Image Composite Explorer). In addition, users can
download the imagery in a variety of formats (including PNG,
JPEG, KMZ (Google Earth), GeoTIFF, and CSV) for direct use in
several third party software packages. NEO datasets are also
made available via WMS.

Kevin Ward
Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
NASA Earth Observations (NEO)
Greenbelt , Maryland 20770
United States
Phone: 503-977-2970
E-mail: kevin_ward@ssaihq.com