The document discusses how remote sensing data from satellites can be brought into GIS applications, noting that moderate resolution data from instruments like MODIS and VIIRS as well as higher resolution ASTER imagery are available from the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. It describes GIS-friendly formats and services like web map services that allow this satellite imagery and derived data layers to be directly used in GIS software, and provides examples of applications like AppEEARS that allow users to extract and explore time series data.