(Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/).

Diagram of data acquisition by the MISR sensor

(i)

(iii)

(ii)

Main types of radiation processes in remote sensing: (i) reflection, (ii)

emission, and (iii) emission- reflection

Global view

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/Sensors/Terra/

(http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/).

Multitemporal changes in Mount Kilimanjaro during the last decade

Landsat-5 image acquired on Feb. 17, 1993.

Landsat-7 image of Feb. 21, 2000.

The snow cap formed some 11,000 years ago and has shrank by 80 percent in the past century

1975 1986

1992

http://earthshots.usgs.gov/

Tropical forest deforestation analysis with Landsat imagery over Rondônia, Brazil

La Nina, December, 1988

Normal, December, 1990

El Nino, December, 1997

Detection of El Niño events from sea temperature

(source. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050829.html)

Image of the Hurricane Katrina acquired by the GOES-12 (August 29, 2005)

http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/artwork/rover2browse.html

Mars Exploration Rover

Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS)

Antarctic Ozone Hole