Participating countries include Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Transfers of new international files are made every two weeks and Canadian entries are updated when new information is received. Users link to other data centres world-wide and access their inventories, bulletin boards or information networks.
Product information is also available online.
Users equipped with a graphical WWW client can access the SPOT PLA and MLA and Landsat TM integrated inventory and Quicklook service. Over 420,000 quicklook scenes covering all of Canada since 1991 can be browsed. WWW users can also access other services such as Satellite Data Users' Guides and Sample Remote Sensing Products being developed at CCRS and WWW links to other remote sensing related servers. GCNet is a CCRS information system that assists users in locating remote sensing data and products in Canada and abroad. Downloading instructions and shareware software for decompressing image files are included.