• NASA World Winds: "lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there." Not yet mac compatible.
• Google Earth: combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips
• MSN Terra Server:  "The Microsoft TerraServer Web site is one of the world's largest online databases, providing free public access to a vast data store of maps and aerial photographs of the United States. TerraServer is designed to work with commonly available computer systems and Web browsers over slow speed communications links."
  The National Atlas of the United States of America : Thematic mapper
• **Terrabrowser for the MAC A $10(shareware) Internet browser for satellite photos and topographical maps. Uses MSN Terra Server.
• Global Landforms Database  and the Color Landform Atlas of the United States, Ray Sterner of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL)
• Wikimapia.org Allows you to browse images using your Internet browser

Commercial Map Servers For Topographic Maps

• MyTopo($$) Commercial site that allows you to create and order
• Topozone($$): Commercial site that allows you to create and download topographic maps
• Maptech map server($$): Commercial site that allows you create and order topographic map

Online Map Docs

• 15 min Topographic Maps of New England (JPEG) UNH Dimond Library Documents Department & Data Center
• MIT Digital Orthophoto Browser Boston Area
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection: 320,000 maps online from all over the world. Not necessarily related to geology.
• USGS National Mapping Center USGS National Geologic Map Database (thematic maps)

 Interactive Mapping Tools For Online Map Creation

•  **MAPIT USGS Map plotter
• Online Map Creation (via Geomar in Germany) Enables plotting of tectonic features
• GRASSLinks for the AGCRC (Australia)
• ** Cornell University's Geological and Geophysical Databases, Information and GIS Map Server
• Profile Maker Extract cross sections of the surface, the moho, and other data sets in Cornell's GIS system.

!!Downloadable Shaded Relief and Geologic Maps Of The United States!!

U.S. landforms and provinces are discussed throughout the course.  These maps will be invaluable references.  I suggest you print these out and hang them on your wall.

• Landforms of the Conterminous United States - A Digital Shaded-Relief Potrayal, Gail P. Thelin and Richard J. Pike (1991) USGS Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-2206, URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i2206/
• A Tapestry of Time and Terrain, José F. Vigil, Richard J. Pike, and David G. How (2000), USGS Series I 2720, URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i2720/
• NOAA High resolution maps of the world: version 1/ version 2: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/2minrelief.html, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Obtained through wikimedia

  
Lindley Hanson/Department of Geological Sciences/Salem State College/Geomorphology/GeoIndex/QkRef