AARS: The aim of the Association is to contribute to a better knowledge of the existence of a Saharan rock art and to undertake actions to highlight it. The priority actions are the diffusion of documents, the exchange of ideas and the encouragement of an attitude relative to the conservation of the sites.

fjexpeditions: Contains general background information on the Libyan Desert and a lot of exploration reports. By Andras Zboray, the Hungarian explorer who discoverd hundreds of rock art sites in the Gilf-Kebir and Jebel Uweinat region.

Zerzura Club: Zerzura Club revived thanks to the Giancarlo Negro's efforts. "I like to think of Zerzura in that light, as an idea for which we have no apt word in English, meaning something waiting to be discovered in some out-of-the-way place... . The intruduction page to this web-site (partly in Italian, partly in English, is an excerpt from Ralph A. Bagnold - 1935, Libyan Sands - Travel in a Dead World.

Carlo-Bergmann: Since 1982 Carlo Bergmann has been spending his (winter) time in the Libyan Desert. Mostly walking alone. In German & English.

Jean-Loic Lequellec: "Vous trouverez ici les archives de mon bloc-note électronique intitulé l'Esprit des pierres...." In French.

My name is Norbert Brügge, I am geologist ...: many interesting pages rich of pictures and geologic sketches about the volcanic landforms of the Libyan Desert, the many interesting craters, volcanos, dikes, lava flows, etc. You will find on these pages also the passionate discussion of the controversial craters that were related by somebody to cosmic impacts.

Deserts.it: The Mount Bagnold exploration: a spin-off of the EMERI III Expedition in 2008. This site was founded to publish the second ascent of Mount Bagnold (1834 m), former Cima Mussolini, in the Libyan sector of the Jebel Uweinat. Mount Bagnold is the second highest peak of the Uweinat massif but the most difficult (considering the easiest way to the top). The first ascent was by Prof. Umberto Mònterin in 1934. In Italian.

World Wide Way: Siamo due viaggiatori curiosi, conosciuti al mondo come Marco e Irene... In Italian.

Dunes.it: Travelling 4x4 in North Africa with private cars. The web site of the organization that provided safe travelling (and plus) to the three Emeri expeditions. In Italian.

Rasmohamed: to travel and dive in Sinai and especially at Ras Mohammed.

Free Software useful for the Desert Explorer

Monteverdi: An advanced tool for remote sensing, image interpretation. Fantastic. Better than many commercial softwares.

ImageJi: A fantastic program for image processing. With the D-Strectch plug-in it represents an essential tool in rock art studies of paintings.

Stereo Photo Maker: Stereophotography made easy.

Mesh Lab: Commercial software for 3D modeeling cost thousands of Euros. Thanks to the University of Pisa (in the person of Paolo Cignoni) you can enjoy 3D modelling an edit meshes for free.

Quantum GIS: As a professional geologist I use the ESRI suite (aka Arcmap) when I am at office. On my personal computer at home I develop my private projects with Quantum GIS, an open-source-freeware GIS. The latest version is more than enough for all the mapping purposes of the High Tech Desert Explorer. It is not less powerful than Arcmap 9.0. I stronglyrecommend it. People familiar with Arcmap will find it working practically in the same way. Quantum GIS is now eroding the Arcmap predominance even among the professional cartographers ...

GpicSync: What you need to geo-tag images without connection cables. Just syncronize your camera to the GPS and... hoplà!

TrackMaker: a complete GPS navigation software by Odillon Ferreira Junior. I love it. I often used it to quickly edit my GPS files before exporting them to my Libyan Desert GSI Project. Fast to load an more efficient for this purpose than many other free and commercial softwares.

GeoTiffExamine: to quickly edit, copy and export the georeferencing data embedded in Geotiff files. A nifty tool for the digital cartographer. Extremely useful if you extract features form aerial or satellite images with Photoshop, which are georeferenced as Geotiff (Phostoshop does not preserved embedded Geotiff data but is can perform many of the same operations usually found in very expensive remote sensing software does).

Free Software you may find useful if you enjoyed Terramata

Prof. Nikos Papamarkos: on the personal web site of this Greek scientist devoted to the problems od artificial intelligence and human vision I found many interesting pieces of software that can be used in better performing vectorial extraction of features from satellite images or rock art.