The Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program co-sponsors an international system of regional planetary image facilities (RPIFs). These facilities function as a library of planetary image data and associated information. Each of the 13 facilities contains nearly half a million planetary images. The facilities maintain photographic copies and digital data. In addition, several RPIFs offer workstations for users to conduct on-site image and cartographic processing. Each facility's general holdings, containing images of planets and their satellites taken from both Earth and space, together with topographic and geologic maps produced from these images, include the following:
Each facility has a video disk system that allows users to rapidly scan a collection of images. Additionally, holdings may be searched through an on-line data catalog that is supported by the network of RPIFs. Because the RPIFs are reference centers for studying and selecting lunar and planetary images, images are not permitted to leave except under exceptional circumstances. Reproductions of a few photographs at the user's expense may be possible, however. Data managers are available to assist with the ordering of materials for user's retention from the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDCA) in Greenbelt, Maryland. Information on the RPIF's is given below. In addition, there is a central RPIF home page which can be accessed, and some individual RPIF's have their own local home pages which are linked to in the list below.
Regional Planetary Image Facilities are located at the following institutions in the United States and Overseas:
Center for Radiophysics and Space Physics Research 317 Space Sciences Building Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-6801 (607) 255-3833 Fax: (607) 255-9002 Data Manager: Rick Kline E-mail: kline@spiffy.tn.cornell.edu Director: Joseph Veverka -------------------------------------------------------Northeast Regional Planetary Data Center
Department of Geological Sciences Brown University Box 1846 Providence, RI 02912 (401) 863-3243 Fax: (401) 863-3978 Data Manager: Deborah A. Glavin E-mail: deborah_glavin@brown.edu Director: Peter H. Schultz -------------------------------------------------------Regional Planetary Image Facility
Center for Earth and Planetary Studies Mail Code 315 National Air and Space Museum Washington, DC 20560 (202) 633-9892 Fax: (202) 786-2566 Data Manager: Rosemary E. Steinat E-mail: rsteinat@ceps.nasm.edu Director: Tom Watters -------------------------------------------------------Regional Planetary Image Facility
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences Campus Box 1169 Washington University One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 (314) 935-5679 Fax: (314) 935-7361 Data Manager: Margo Long E-mail: long@wunder.wustl.edu Director: Raymond Arvidson -------------------------------------------------------Center for Information and Research Services
Lunar and Planetary Institute 3600 Bay Area Boulevard Houston, TX 77058-1113 (281) 486-2182 Fax: (281) 486-2186 Data Manager: Mary Ann Hager E-mail: rpif@lpi.usra.edu Director: Paul Schenk -------------------------------------------------------Space Photography Laboratory
Department of Geology Box 871404 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 (480) 965-7029 Fax: (480) 965-8102 Data Manager: Daniel Ball E-mail: rpif@asu.edu Director: Ronald Greeley -------------------------------------------------------Space Imagery Center
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory University of Arizona 1629 E. University Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85721-0092 (520) 621-4861 Fax: (520) 621-4933 Data Manager: Maria Schuchardt E-mail: mariams@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu Director: Shane Byrne -------------------------------------------------------Regional Planetary Information Facility
Branch of Astrogeology U.S. Geological Survey 2255 North Gemini Drive Flagstaff, AZ 86001 (928) 556-7264 Fax: (928) 556-7014 Data Manager: Mary Chapman E-mail: RPIF-flag@usgs.gov Director: David S.F. Portree -------------------------------------------------------Regional Planetary Image Facility
Mail Stop 202-100 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109 (818) 354-3343 Fax: (818) 354-0740 Data Manager: Debbie Martin E-mail: jpl_rpif@jpl.nasa.gov Director: Timothy Parker -------------------------------------------------------Pacific Regional Planetary Data Center
Planetary Geosciences Division/HIGP University of Hawaii at Manoa 2525 Correa Rd. Honolulu, HI 96822 (808) 956-3131 Fax: (808) 956-6322 Data Manager: Chris Peterson E-mail: prpdc@higp.hawaii.edu Director: B. Ray Hawke -------------------------------------------------------
Department of Geology University of New Brunswick P.O. Box 4400 Fredericton NB, Canada, E3B 5A3 (506) 453-3560 Fax: (506) 453-5055 Data Manager: Kathryn A. MacCarthy E-mail: kamaccart@unb.ca Director: John Spray -------------------------------------------------------
University of New Brunswick Department of Geology P.O. Box 4400 Fredericton NB, Canada, E3B 5A3 506-453-3560 Fax: 506-453-5055 Data Manager: Kyle Blades E-mail: passc@unb.ca Director: John Spray -------------------------------------------------------Regional Planetary Image Facility
University of London Observatory Department of Geological Sciences University College London Gower Street London, WC1E 6BT United Kingdom 011-44-020-7679-2134 Fax: 011-44-020-7679-7614 Data Manager: Peter Grindrod E-mail: p.grindrod@ucl.ac.uk Director: John Guest -------------------------------------------------------Phototheque Planetaire
Department des Sciences de la Terre
Laboratoire de Geologie Dynamique
de la Terre et des Planetes
Universite Paris-Sud
Batiment 509 F-91405
Orsay
France
011-33-1-69-15-61-51 Fax: 011-33-1-60-19-14-46
Data Manager: Laurent Daumas
E-mail: laurent.daumas@u-psud.fr
Director: Phillippe Masson
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Regional Planetary Image Facility
Deutsche Zentrum fur Luft und Raumfahrt e.V. Institute of Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Exploration Rutherfordstr. 2 12489 Berlin Germany 49-30-67-055-333 Fax: 49-30-67-055-372 Data Manager: Susanne Pieth E-mail: rpif@dlr.de Director: Ralf Jaumann -------------------------------------------------------Southern Europe Regional Planetary Image Facility
CNR - Instituto di Astrofisica Spaziale
Area Ricerca di Roma Tor Vergata
via del Fosso de Cavaliere, 100
00133 Roma
Italy
39-6-49934449 Fax: 39-6-20660188
Data Manager: Anna Maria Sambuco
E-mail: sambuco@roma2.infn.it
Director: Remo Bianchi
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Nordic Regional Planetary Image Facility
Department of Geosciences and Astronomy Astronomy Division University of Oulu FIN-90570 Oulo Finland 358-(0)8-553-1946 Fax: 358-(0)8-553-1934 Data Manager: Petri Kostama E-mail: petri.kostama@oulu.fi Director: Jouko Raitala -------------------------------------------------------Israeli Regional Planetary Image Facility
Department of Geography and Environmental Development Ben-Gurion University of the Negev P.O. Box 653 Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel 972-8-647-7939 Fax: 972-8-647-2821 Data Manager: Shira Amir E-mail: blumberg@bgu.ac.il Director: Dan Blumberg -------------------------------------------------------Planetary Image Facility of Japan
Inst. of Space and Astronomical Sciences 3-1-1 Yoshinodai Sagamihara-Shi, Kanagawa 229 Japan 81-427-59-8198 Fax: 81-427-59-8516 Data Manager: Satoshi Tanaka E-mail: tanaka@planeta.sci.isas.jaxa.jp Director: Akio Fujimura -------------------------------------------------------
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