Satellite Applications
Core resources
BASE: Bielefield Academic Search Engine
Search engine for academic open access web resources. Contains records for more than 50 million documents and the majority is available in full-text.50 million documents from more than 2700 sources.
EBSCO DIscovery Service (EDS)
EBSCO EDS is an online research tool that "pulls together" many external sources so that they can be explorer using a single search box . In other words, rather than searching several sources, you can do and EDS search and get a single list of results coming from various sources. In fact, you could think of EDS as the Library's version of Google.
EDS is available to all Library users on- and off-campus. Authentication with your ISU network ID will be required.
NASA Technical Report Server NTRS
Contains bibliographic citations and abstracts to technical reports from NASA collections as well as external collections not maintained by NASA. Subjects covered include aeronautics, space science, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, computer sciences, and physics. Includes links to full text of reports available digitally in pdf or PostScript formats.
SAO/NASA astrophysics data system
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an abstract service, which draws abstracts from a variety of national and international scientific sources. The abstracts are divided into four sets: astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, and the arXiv Preprints archive.
SPIE Digital Libray
The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to 300,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. Approximately 18,000 research papers are added each year. SPIE eBooks includes over 130 monographs, reference books, tutorial texts, and field guides.
Web of science
Web Of Science is a citation index that provides a comprehensive citation search. It gives access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research, which allows for in-depth exploration of specialized sub-fields within an academic or scientific discipline.
(On-campus access)
Additional resources
CEOS Database
The database currently features details of 301 Earth observing satellite missions and 843 instruments (423 distinct instruments, some being repeats), which are currently operating or planned for launch in the next 15 years - funded and operated by around 30 CEOS space agencies worldwide.
CRCnetBASE
Online tool for locating articles, book chapters, books and conferences published by CRC press covering disciplines like Biological science, biomedical science, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental engineering, science, general engineering, life science, material science, military science.
GIS Bibliography (ESRI)
Indexes references to geographic information systems, science, and technology from journal articles, conference papers, books, and reports. Includes over 8,000 references on remote sensing.
GreenFile
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts, as well as Open Access full text.
GPS.gov
Official U.S. Government information about the Global Positioning System (GPS) and related topics.
Nanosatellite & Cubesat Database
NASA Global Change Master Directory
NSSDCA Master Catalog
The NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive serves as the permanent archive for NASA space science mission data. "Space science" means astronomy and astrophysics, solar and space plasma physics, and planetary and lunar science.
OSCAR - Observing Systems Capability Analysis and Review Tool (WMO)
This section contains details of environmental satellite missions, instruments and other related information.
Remote Sensing Online Retrieval System (RESORS)
From the Canada Center for Remote Sensing, this is an index to 100,000 remote sensing publications published between 1950 and 1995.
SatBeams
Satbeams.com is global Web 2.0 reference website that provides consolidated information about the Geostationary/Communications satellites, their technical details, coverage zones and frequency charts. At the same time Satbeams.com is also a powerful tool for antenna positioning that makes it helpful not only for the satellite professionals, communication companies, multiple government services, international and military organisations but also for the Sat-DX communities and broad audience of Sat-TV enthusiasts from all over the world. Satbeams.com has an advanced search functionality that allows to lookup satellites, beams, channels and locations on the maps in just a few seconds. In addition to that, registered users can also create RSS-feeds linked to satellite charts and personalize them in order to stay up-to-date with the latest news from Satbeams.com.
Satellite Missions Database - EOPortal Directory
Categorized from A to Z and by Space Agency, there are over 600 in-depth articles of satellite missions from 1959 to 2020. The missions database can be filtered by a range of criteria using the Search Missions filter drop down menus below, enabling you to find specific missions easily.
UCS Satellite Database
Assembled by experts at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the Satellite Database is a listing of the more than 1000 operational satellites currently in orbit around Earth.
Satellite Industry Links
Satellite and space industry directory
BASE: Bielefield Academic Search Engine
Search engine for academic open access web resources. Contains records for more than 50 million documents and the majority is available in full-text.50 million documents from more than 2700 sources.
EBSCO DIscovery Service (EDS)
EBSCO EDS is an online research tool that "pulls together" many external sources so that they can be explorer using a single search box . In other words, rather than searching several sources, you can do and EDS search and get a single list of results coming from various sources. In fact, you could think of EDS as the Library's version of Google.
EDS is available to all Library users on- and off-campus. Authentication with your ISU network ID will be required.
NASA Technical Report Server NTRS
Contains bibliographic citations and abstracts to technical reports from NASA collections as well as external collections not maintained by NASA. Subjects covered include aeronautics, space science, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, computer sciences, and physics. Includes links to full text of reports available digitally in pdf or PostScript formats.
SAO/NASA astrophysics data system
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an abstract service, which draws abstracts from a variety of national and international scientific sources. The abstracts are divided into four sets: astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, and the arXiv Preprints archive.
SPIE Digital Libray
The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to 300,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. Approximately 18,000 research papers are added each year. SPIE eBooks includes over 130 monographs, reference books, tutorial texts, and field guides.
Web of science
Web Of Science is a citation index that provides a comprehensive citation search. It gives access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research, which allows for in-depth exploration of specialized sub-fields within an academic or scientific discipline.
(On-campus access)
Additional resources
CEOS Database
The database currently features details of 301 Earth observing satellite missions and 843 instruments (423 distinct instruments, some being repeats), which are currently operating or planned for launch in the next 15 years - funded and operated by around 30 CEOS space agencies worldwide.
CRCnetBASE
Online tool for locating articles, book chapters, books and conferences published by CRC press covering disciplines like Biological science, biomedical science, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental engineering, science, general engineering, life science, material science, military science.
GIS Bibliography (ESRI)
Indexes references to geographic information systems, science, and technology from journal articles, conference papers, books, and reports. Includes over 8,000 references on remote sensing.
GreenFile
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts, as well as Open Access full text.
GPS.gov
Official U.S. Government information about the Global Positioning System (GPS) and related topics.
Nanosatellite & Cubesat Database
NASA Global Change Master Directory
NSSDCA Master Catalog
The NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive serves as the permanent archive for NASA space science mission data. "Space science" means astronomy and astrophysics, solar and space plasma physics, and planetary and lunar science.
OSCAR - Observing Systems Capability Analysis and Review Tool (WMO)
This section contains details of environmental satellite missions, instruments and other related information.
Remote Sensing Online Retrieval System (RESORS)
From the Canada Center for Remote Sensing, this is an index to 100,000 remote sensing publications published between 1950 and 1995.
SatBeams
Satbeams.com is global Web 2.0 reference website that provides consolidated information about the Geostationary/Communications satellites, their technical details, coverage zones and frequency charts. At the same time Satbeams.com is also a powerful tool for antenna positioning that makes it helpful not only for the satellite professionals, communication companies, multiple government services, international and military organisations but also for the Sat-DX communities and broad audience of Sat-TV enthusiasts from all over the world. Satbeams.com has an advanced search functionality that allows to lookup satellites, beams, channels and locations on the maps in just a few seconds. In addition to that, registered users can also create RSS-feeds linked to satellite charts and personalize them in order to stay up-to-date with the latest news from Satbeams.com.
Satellite Missions Database - EOPortal Directory
Categorized from A to Z and by Space Agency, there are over 600 in-depth articles of satellite missions from 1959 to 2020. The missions database can be filtered by a range of criteria using the Search Missions filter drop down menus below, enabling you to find specific missions easily.
UCS Satellite Database
Assembled by experts at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the Satellite Database is a listing of the more than 1000 operational satellites currently in orbit around Earth.
Satellite Industry Links
Satellite and space industry directory
