Geology: Online Images & Photographs

A digital collection of historical aerial photography for Illinois.

This site provides links to a wide variety of geospatial data available from the Illinois Geospatial Data Clearinghouse.

A collection of photographs and images on a wide variety of geoscience topics provided by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI). The Image Bank makes quality geoscience images available to the public, educators, and the earth science community.

The U.S. Geological Survey has a collection of over 400,000 photographs taken in the process of doing geologic research in the United States and U.S. territories from 1868 to the present. These images document the discovery, development, and science in the U.S. done by the Geological Survey and its predecessors. This site provides online access to some of these photographs.

This site, which is produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, is a clearinghouse for clip art and images related to Earth Science. It includes images of minerals, geologic structures and fossils.

A consortium of natural history and botanical libraries is cooperatively digitizing older publications related to biology, biodiversity and natural so that they can be freely viewed and used online. The library can be searched or browsed by title, author or subject. Images from the publications can be used in publications, but remember to cite the source!

This site can be used to search for information on a specific topic developed by U.S. Government agencies. It is also possible to narrow the search results to a type of resource, such as images. Government publications, including photos in government publications, and photos taken by government employees are not copyrighted, so they can be used in presentations, but remember to cite your source! To find images, search for a topic (e.g. Black Footed Ferret) and then narrow the search results by choosing to view only images.

This site from NOAA contains photos that were taken by officers, scientists and engineers of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

A special collection of images and image collections from the EROS (Earth Resources Observation and Science) Data Center. This site includes images from collection that can be downloaded, including Earth as Art and Voyage of Lewis and Clark.

This site contains information on Landsat missions and provides links to sites that can be used to access images from the Landsat satellites, which have collected Earth observations and remote sensing imagery since 1972.

A search engine that can look for photographs and images on a wide variety of topics at all NASA sites. Most photographs are digital and can be viewed online.