Image Use & Copyright
If you would like to use any of the images displayed on the oceandots.com website, please check beforehand that the image you are interested in using is available under a license that enables you to do so. Not all images are freely available — please check any general copyright notices here and on the linked-to pages or see the specific usage restrictions (if any) on the page where the image is located.
1. Satellite imagery is derived from images that are made freely available to the public by various NASA organisations. These include:
i) The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of the Earth (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov) at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.
ii) The MODIS Rapid Response System (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov) at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
iii) The ASTER Volcano Archive (http://ava.jpl.nasa.gov/) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
iv) The Applied Science & Technology Project Office (http://www.coastal.ssc.nasa.gov/) at the John C. Stennis Space Center, Hancock County, Mississippi.
As a government entity, NASA does not "license" the use of NASA materials or sign license agreements. NASA generally has no objection to the reproduction and use of its image materials subject to the conditions that are outlined in the Condition of Use statement on the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of the Earth site at http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Info/use.htm. A similar policy is operated by the MODIS Rapid Response System (see http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/faq/#faq01). Please read these statements before making use of any images derived from NASA.
All NASA images used on this site are "derived products" that have been either cropped, rotated, resized or enhanced in some way. For the original images please consult or direct users to the relevant sources detailed in (1).
2. Ground-based images (standard photographs) are uploaded to this site by members of the interested public. They may have elected to retain full copyright control of their photographs or may have chosen to publish them under one of a variety of less-restrictive Creative Commons licenses; some may have been released into the so-called "public domain".
Before using any user-uploaded images from this site it is important that you check that the license-type allows you to use the image — many do not — and that you follow the terms and conditions of the particular license (detailed on the page where the image is located).
3. The textual content of this site may not be freely copied and published elsewhere.