A comprehensive listing of training institutes and programs in remote sensing is currently unavailable. The following is a selection of the numerous and growing list of educational and research establishments which offer training in remote sensing at all levels. Much of the information contained in this Appendix was obtained from: “The remote sensing sourcebook: a guide to remote sensing products, services, facilities, publications and other materials” by D.J. Carter (1986).
| AUSTRALIA | CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia |
| BRAZIL | Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais C.P. 515 Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil |
| CANADA | Canadian Remote Sensing Training Institute c/o Canada Centre for Remote Sensing 2464 Sheffield Road Ottawa, Canada K1A 0Y7 |
| COLUMBIA | Centro Interamericano de Fotointerpretacion Bogotà, Columbia |
| COSTA RICA | Institut Interamericano de Ciencias Agricolas Turrialla San Jose, Costa Rica |
| ETHIOPIA | African Remote Sensing Council Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| EUROPE | NATO Advanced Studies Institute NATO Scientific Affairs Division B-1110 Bruxelles, Belgium |
| Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the Commission of the European Community 21020 Ispra (Varese), Italy | |
| FRANCE | Centre National d'Études Spatiales
(CNES) 18 Avenue Édouard Belin 31055 Toulouse Cedex, France |
| GERMANY | Fachhochschule for Technik Stuttgart, West Germany |
| INDIA | Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (National Remote Sensing Agency) Department of Space Government of India 4, Kalidas Road, PB 135 Dehra Dun 248001, India |
| ITALY | United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Remote Sensing Centre Via delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 Roma, Italy |
| JAPAN | Remote Sensing Technology Centre of Japan 7–15–17 Roppongi Minato-ku Tokyo 106, Japan |
| KENYA | Regional Remote Sensing Facility P.O. Box 18332 Nairobi, Kenya |
| NEW ZEALAND | New Zealand Ministry of Works and Development Aokautere Science Center Palmerston North, New Zealand |
| NETHERLANDS | International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC) Student Affairs Office P.O. Box 6 7500 AA Enschede, Netherlands |
| NIGERIA | Regional Centre for Training in Aerial Surveys Ile-Ife, Nigeria |
| SWITZERLAND | University of Zurich Department of Geography P.O. Box CH-8033 Zurich, Switzerland |
| THAILAND | Asian Institute of Technology P.O. Box 2754 Bangkok, Thailand |
UNITED KINGDOM
Students interested in training in the U.K. should consult the “Report on Full-time Training Facilities in the United Kingdom in Land Survey, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Cartography and Map Reproduction (including printing), Cadastre, Land Resource and Management Studies, and Hydrographic Surveying, which are available to overseas students”, Directorate of Overseas Surveys (Revised edition, June 1983). Copies are available from British Council Offices in most countries.
| University of Aston Remote Sensing Unit Department of Civil Engineering Gosta Green Birmingham, England B4 7ET | |
| University of London University College Department of Geography 26 Bedford Way London, England WC1H 0AP | |
| University of Nottingham Department of Geography (Remote Sensing Unit) Nottingham, England NG7 2RD | |
| Silsoe College Cranfield Institute of Technology Silsoe, Bedford, England MK45 4DT | |
| Land Resources Development Centre Overseas Development Administration Tolworth Tower Surbiton, Surrey, England KT6 7DY | |
| University of Dundee Carnegie Laboratory of Physics Dundee, Scotland DD1 4HN | |
| University of Glasgow Department of Geography Glasgow, Scotland G12 8QQ |
UNITED STATES
Students interested in advanced training in the U.S.A. should consult the paper by L.D. Nealy in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 1977, 43(3): 259-84. More up-to-date listings are available from the American Society of Photogrammetry and the Association of American Geographers. Forthcoming training courses in the U.S.A. are listed in the LANDSAT data users notes which can be obtained from: LANDSAT Customer Services, Mundt Federal Building, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57198, U.S.A.
| Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S.A. | |
| University of California Department of Earth and Space Sciences Los Angeles, California 90024, U.S.A. | |
| Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies New Haven, Connecticut 06511, U.S.A. | |
| George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science Washington, District of Columbia 20052 U.S.A. | |
| Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing (LARS) Purdue University 1220 Potter Drive W. Lafayette, Indiana 47906, U.S.A. | |
| University of Massachusetts Remote Sensing Centre Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, U.S.A. | |
| University of Michigan Remote Sensing Laboratory School of Natural Resources Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, U.S.A. | |
| Michigan State University Remote Sensing Project East Lansing, Michigan 48824, U.S.A. | |
| Remote Sensing Unit Division of Natural Resources and Energy (DNRE) New York, New York, U.S.A. | |
| University of North Dakota Institute for Remote Sensing Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202, U.S.A. | |
| Oregon State University Environmental Remote Sensing Application Laboratory Cornvallis, Oregon 97331, U.S.A. | |
| Remote Sensing Institute South Dakota State University P.O. Box 507 Brookings, South Dakota 57007, U.S.A. | |
| U.S. Geological Survey EROS Data Center Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57198, U.S.A. | |
| Office of International Geology U.S. Geological Survey, 1917 National Center Reston, Virginia 22092, U.S.A. | |
| U.S.S.R. | INTERCOSMOS Council on International Cooperation in the Study and Utilization of Outer Space 117901 North Moscow V-71 Leninsky Prospect 14 Moscow, U.S.S.R. |