View pictures, taken from space, of select areas across Canada. Identify landmarks such as rivers, forests and even golf courses!

What is remote sensing? Remote sensing is the science (and to some extent, art) of acquiring information about the Earth's surface without actually being in contact with it.

Remote sensing methods that monitor, model, and map natural hazards for events such as floods, hurricanes, forest fires, oil spills and geohazards.

Access information from the program responsible for receiving, processing and archiving Earth observation data. Find information on topics including climate change, northern development and natural hazards.

Developing remote sensing techniques to monitor and model environmental and climate change processes. Information on forestry, hydrology, landcover, marine, mapping, and productivity.

Visit the image gallery of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing to see thematic satellite images of many regions of Canada.

Find out how space-based earth observation (EO) technologies are being used to create products for forest inventory, forest carbon accounting, monitoring sustainable development and landscape management.

Understanding ocean dynamics is important for fish stock assessment, ship routing, forecasting and monitoring storms so as to reduce the impact of disaster on marine navigation, off-shore exploration, and coastal settlements.

Read several success stories relating to the Government of Canada's use of geomatics as a tool for integrating sustainable development.

Find information about the program responsible for providing reliable geospatial information as part of the Government of Canada’s priority of integrating sustainable development.

Learn about geometric processing, the correction of errors of skew, rotation and perspective in raw, remotely sensed data.

Research highlights include environmental applications, biophysical measurements from satellite, boreal ecosystems productivity simulator, forest fire monitoring, data correction products, radiation products, vegetation products, the Land Cover Map of Canada and more.

Research highlights include ship detection, wind retrieval, coastal mapping, oil spill detection, oceanic phenomena and sea ice.