Main subjects are the atmosphere, land, and water resources, with a focus on the effect of land-atmosphere interaction over the southeast Asian monsoon region. ARIA is an interdisciplinary resource system for digital image and map data for the Sonoran desert region, including the US Southwest and northern Mexico. Its focus is climate variability and change. Located at the University of Arizona. Blobworld Image Retrieval Blobworld is a system for content-based image retrieval.
Users can query for photographs based on the objects they contain.
Includes land, air, and water images. GiST Indexing Project GIST studies the engineering and mathematics behind content-based indexing for massive amounts of complex content. Site includes information about glaciers, volcanoes, earthquakes and other content. The group is currently active on Climate Change and Remote Sensing and is monitoring the change in growth of vegetation globally. Links to Terra satellite and Earth Observatory.