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Agriculture, Food Security and Development

• Agricultural Research Organizations on the WEB - AROW
  ISNAR - Agricultural Research Organizations on the web - site contains a worldwide directory of organizations and universities working in agricultural research that have a home page on the Web. We continue to develop this directory--with new listings being added all the time and old listings being updated or deleted
• AgriSurf! - The Farmers Search Engine
  
• Agrolink Front Page
  Agriculture is Business
• CEISIN Global Distribution of Poverty: Datasets Information
  Characterizing the Global Distribution of Poverty
• CIAT Food Poverty and Development Links from the Challenge Program on Water and Food
  
• EI Special_GIS in Sustainable Development
  GIS in sustainable development. The use of GIS in FAO, major global dataset available in FAO and other institutions
• FAO Livestock Geography Atlas Index
  
• FAO's GRIDDED LIVESTOCK OF THE WORLD - GLW
  AGA, Animal Production and Health Division,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas, livestock disease databases, electronic atlas, maps, statistics
• FAO's GRIDDED LIVESTOCK OF THE WORLD - GLW
  AGA, Animal Production and Health Division,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas, livestock disease databases, electronic atlas, maps, statistics
• FAO-GIEWS - Global Information and Early Warning System
  
• FAO/AGLL - Agro-MAPS, a global spatial land-use database
  FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Agro-MAPS, a global spatial land-use database
• FAOSTAT Database Collections
  
• FAO_GIEWS Special Reports and Alerts
  
• FIVIMS - Key Indicator Mapping System (KIMS)
  
• Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations - Africover Eastern Africa Project
  
• Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems
  
• Global livestock production systems
  
• GMFS - Global Monitoring for Food Security
  
• IASA Global Agro Ecological Zones
  Global Agro-Ecological Zones Model/CD-ROM - FAO/IIASA
• International Agriculture Datasets from Cornell
  
• ICSC UNDSA Data by Region
  
• Poverty Mapping - Maps and graphics
  A clearinghouse for graphic representations and spatial analysis of poverty patterns.
• Geographic distribution of major crop across the world (SAGE)
  
• UNDP Human Development statistics
  
• US Foreign Agricultural Service
  

Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation

• Bailey Ecoregions of the Continents
  
• Bills Wildlife Sites
  An index of internet sites of interest to wildlife ecologists. Categories include: government, federal, state, non-profit, professional, university; endangered species, mammal, carnivore, marine mammal, bird, amphibian and reptile, wildlife newsgroups, and wildife-related products such as telemetry equipment, binoculars, spotting scopes, software, books, art and photography.
• Birdlife Species search
  
• Conserve Online - Connecting Conservation Practitioners worldwide
  
• GAA: Global Amphibain Assessment
  GAA: Global Amphibain Assessment
• GBIF Biodiversity Data Portal
  
• NOAA GED Global ecosystems database
  
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) prototype internet data portal www.gbif.net now provides free and universal access to millions of scientific data records about plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as the ability to map their distributions, search them by scientific or common name, or browse through them by taxonomy. These data will be of great value to a wide range of users, including scientists, students, policymakers, and the general public.
• Holdridge Life-Zone map
  
• Millenium Ecosystem Assessment
  
• http://www.natureserve.org
  Providing the scientific basis for effective conservation, NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the trusted source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems.
• NatureServe: Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere Version 2.1
  NatureServe and its network of member programs provide a vast array of scientific information and online data about species and ecosystems of the western hemisphere.
• NatureServe: Get Data
  NatureServe and its network of member programs provide a vast array of scientific information and online data about species and ecosystems of the western hemisphere.
• UNEP GLOBIO
  Mapping Human Impacts On The Biosphere
• UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
  United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre
• World Atlas of Biodiversity
  
• World Database on Protected Areas
  

Climate

• British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)
  
• Climate Change Unit JRC staff
  
• Climate Explorer The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute KNMI
  
• Climate Research Unit CRU_TS_2_0 Climate Datasets
  
• Climate Research Unit TYN SC 1.0: grids of climate futures
  
• Climate Research Unit TYN SC 2.0: grids of climate futures
  
• Climate Research Unit High-resolution gridded datasets (CRU)
  
• Climate Research Unit Ten Minute Climatology Data
  
• Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750-1850
  
• FAO SD Environment Global Climate Maps
  
• George Mason University Links to Precipitation Data
  
• GIS Climate Change Scenarios
  
• Goddard DAAC Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
  
• History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE)
  
• IPCC-DDC SRES Climate Scenarios
  
• JISAO Climate Data Archive
  climate data archive
• Met Office: Climate change projections Hadley UK
  
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  The Largest Archive of Climate Data in the World
• NOAA National Climatic Data Centre (NCDC) Dataset List
  The Largest Archive of Climate Data in the World
• Special Reports on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) Experiments Overview
  The IPCC Data Distribution Centre
• SRES at CIESIN, Results
  
• The Global Historical Climatology Network at National Oceanographic and Atomspheric Administration
  The global historical climatology network.
• The International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project, Initiative II Data Archive
  
• Total Precipitable Water
  
• UKCIP UK Climate change - Scenarios Gateway
  
• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
  
• US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
  
• Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
  
• WORLDCLIM - data formats
  
• WorldClim, Global Climate Data from Berkeley
  

Geology

• USGS Spectroscopy Lab - Facilities
  
• USGS Spectroscopy Lab - home page
  
• USGS Spectroscopy Lab - Software
  
• USGS Spectroscopy Lab - Tetracorder
  
• USGS Spectroscopy Lab_ Spectroscopy of Rocks and Minerals, and Principles of Spectroscopy
  

Other Data Warehouses and Links

• Austin Texas University Links to Regional Country Level Information Centers
  The objective of UT International Network Information Systems is to provide international users with access to academic databases and information services worldwide, and to provide area studies scholars around the world with access to information on and from the regions covered by different Centers. Each Center's e-mail contact is posted in its own home page.
• Berkely Earth Sciences and Map Library
  Homepage of UC Berkeley's Earth Sciences & Map Library
• Center for International Earth Science Information Network CIESIN, Columbia University
  
• CEOS IDN datasets list
  The CEOS IDN contains metadata refences to datasets, datacenters, sensors, projects, and satellites.
• CGIAR-CSI Consortium for Spatial Information
  Slow. The Consortium for Spatial Information (CGIAR-CSI) is an initiative of the many geospatial scientists within the Consultative Group for International Agriculture Research (CGIAR), linking the efforts of CGIAR scientists, national and international partners, and others working to apply and advance Geospatial Science for International Sustainable Agriculture Development, Natural Resource Management, Biodiversity Conservation, and Poverty Alleviation in Developing Countries.
• CGIAR-CSI SRTM 90m DEM Digital Elevation Database
  
• SRTM "Finished"
  
• Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Water Body Dataset
  
• Conservation Geoportal
  The Conservation Geoportal is a collaborative effort by and for the conservation community to facilitate the discovery and publishing of geographic information systems (GIS) data and maps, to support conservation decisionmaking and education.
• Climate Prediction Centre_ CPC_USGS_FEWS_USAID Project
  
• Digital Chart of The World Online, PSU Maproom
  
• Digital Chart oif the World 2000 (Vmap0) downlaods
  Revised and Updated version of the trusty Digital Chart of the World. Vector
• Duke University Links to GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Spatial Data
  
• European Commission Joint Research Centre Digital Atlas DMA Digital Atlas
  
• FAO-UN GeoNetwork - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations portal to spatial data and information
  FAO GeoNetwork provides Internet access to interactive maps, satellite imagery and related spatial databases. It's purpose is to improve access to and integrated use of spatial data and information. GeoNetwork opensource allows to easily share spatial data among different users
• FreeGIS.org FREE GIS DATA AND APPLICATIONS
  
• GEO Data Portal - The Online Environmental Database UNEP.Net, the Environment Network
  The GEO Data Portal is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners. Its online database holds more than 400 different variables - on themes like population, water, forest, emission, temperature, biodiversity, land, soil, energy etc. - as national (i.e. country-level), subregional, regional (i.e. Africa, Asia, America, Europe) and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps).
• Geography Network
  
• Geoland - Core Service Bio-geophysical Parameters
  geoland - Core Service Bio-geophysical Parameters
• Geospatial Matters from GeoPlace
  "The Authoritative Resource for Spatial Information"
• GIS Data Depot
  The GIS Data Depot provides FREE GIS data downloads and creates custom GIS data CD-ROMs for CAD, mapping, and location based applications.
• Go-Geo Trial
  Go-Geo! is a tool designed to help you find details about geo-spatial datasets and related resources within Great Britain tertiary education and beyond. This is a trial service for the academic community.
• Manchester InforMation and Associated Services (MIMAS)
  
• MapRef: The Collection of Map Projections and Reference Systems
  
• NCSU GIS Data Catalogue
  
• NOAA National Geophysical Data Center
  Bathymmetry Images offered by the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Marine Geology & Geophysics Division and collocated World Data Center for Marine Geology & Geophysics, Boulder.
• Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Landscan Project
  
• Oddens Bookmarks
  The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping
• Oddens's Bookmarks_ Maps and Atlases - 3. Electronic Atlases
  
• World database Protected areas 2006
  
• Social Scinece Information Gateway (SOSIG) GIS and Cartography links
  
• Socioeconomic Data And Applications Center DAAC
  The Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) manages and distributes data products through the Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs).
• The Geocommunity
  The GeoCommunity provides FREE GIS data downloads, GIS job postings, news, GIS software tools, utilities, discussion, and fun in geographic information systems and location based applications.
• The Goddard DAAC
  nasa gsfc data and information services center
• TranStats HomePage
  This is the TranStats homepage. TranStats provides one-stop shopping for intermodal transportation data for researchers, decision-makers, as well as the general public interested in transportation issues.
• UN InfoNation Data Menu
  View and compare statistical data for countries that are a part of the United Nations.
• UNEP GRID at USGS
  UNEP, as the environmental voice of the United Nations, analyzes the state of the global environment, assesses global and regional trends, provides early-warning information on environmental threats and advises governments and the UN based on the best scientific and technological capabilities available.
• UNEP GRID Geneva, Activities
  
• UNEP GRID, Geneva, Data
  UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Geneva is the United Nations Environment Programme's office in Switzerland, providing environmental information, communications, and capacity building services for information management and assessment.
• UNEP Islands
  Access to information on islands and small island developing States (SIDS) especially from within the United Nations system
• UNEP-GRID - Sioux Falls Data List
  
• UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Home page
  
• UNH EOS-WEBSTER, University of New Hampshire
  EOS-WEBSTER provides free, customized Earth Science data. Our data holdings can be searched spatially, temporally, or by keyword, freetext, or collection name. We have distributed amost 400,000 data products to our users world-wide since 1999.
• United Nations Cartographic Section
  This is the official Web Site of the United Nations Cartographic Section in New York. Here you will find UN Peacekeeping maps, country profile maps, and geographical information.
• US Census Bureau International Programs Centre
  The International Programs Center (IPC), part of the Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau, conducts demographic and socioeconomic studies and strengthens statistical development around the world through technical assistance, training, and software products. Its work is commissioned and funded by federal agencies, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, private businesses, and other governments. For over 50 years IPC has assisted in the collection, processing, analysis, dissemination, and use of statistics with counterpart governments throughout the world.
• USDOC_ NOAA_ NESDIS_ National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Home Page
  The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) is part of the US Dept of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite, Data, & Information Service
• Russian Federation - GIS Data Download
  Provides access and links to GIS data for the State of Washington and other selected global areas.
• Washington Stat Geospatial Archives GIS Data Download
  Provides access and links to GIS data for the State of Washington and other selected global areas.
• World Data Center System
  Home Page for the World Data Center System hosted by the WDC's Boulder, collocated with the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The World Data Center System is operated under the auspices of the International Council for Science (ICSU). The World Data Center (WDC) system was created to archive and distribute data collected from the observational programs of the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year. Originally established in the United States, Europe, Russia, and Japan, the WDC system has since expanded to other countries and to new scientific disciplines. The WDC system now includes 52 Centers in 12 countries
• World Resources Institute EarthTrends database
  A free online database that focuses on issues of sustainable development andthe environment. This site draws statistical, graphic, and analytical information from over 40 internationallyrecognized data sources. Detailed documentation is provided for serious research.

Population Infrastructure Topography and Administration Data

• AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment
  
• ADMIN BOUNDARIES GAZETEER DIVA DataServer
  MapServer, free GIS-data
• Another URL for Shoreline Vectors from NOAA
  Information on digital coastline and shorelines data available from various sources. Provided by the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Marine Geology & Geophysics Division and collocated World Data Center for Marine Geology & Geophysics, Boulder.
• cdc admin shape files
  Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics
• CEISIN - Country Summaries
  
• CGIAR Meta-Datasets by alphabetical order
  
• DIVA DataServer adminboundaries
  MapServer, free GIS-data
• GAUL Global Administrative units (FAO dataset)
  
• GADM, global administrative areas (boundaries)
  
• GeoHive Country Data Index
  Country Data Index; demographic facts on all known geopolitical entities.
• Global Rural Urban Mapping Project: Settlements by population size (CIESIN)
  
• Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database (GSHHS)
  Information on digital coastline and shorelines data available from various sources. Provided by the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Marine Geology & Geophysics Division and collocated World Data Center for Marine Geology & Geophysics, Boulder.
• Global Map of urban areas
  
• Global Roads (CIESIN)
  
• GSHHS - Global shorelines of the world
  
• Gridded Population of the World - GPW v3 , Summary
  
• Human footprint: The Las of the Wild
  
• International Trade Data and Statistics
  GTI is recognized as the premier supplier of international merchandise trade data around the world.
• Lakes, Worldwide Fund for Nature
  
• Landscan Overview
  
• LandScan Simple Maps
  
• Light Pollution
  Scientific data, informations, atlases and other on light pollution,night sky brightness,sky glow, nightime lights,naked eye visible stars,limiting magnitude,night-time stellar visibility,measurements from DMSP satellites, light pollution science and technology institute, Dati scientifici, informazioni, mappe, atlanti su inquinamento luminoso, brillanza del cielo notturno,effetti dell'illuminazione artificiale sul cielo stellato, stelle visibili ad occhio nudo,magnitudine limite, in base a misure da satellite, illuminazione artificiale,istil,istituto di scienza e tecnologia dell'inquinamento luminoso,by Pierantonio Cinzano.
• Mapability VMAP0 (Updated Digital Chart of the World Download)
  
• Mapping Urban Areas Globally
  Research ongoing at Boston University's Department of Geography on urban areas, urban growth, and mechanisms of urban change
• NGDC nighttime lights
  Defense Meteorological Satellite Progam
• NGDC-GLOBE Project Get GLOBE Digital Elevation Data Tiles
  
• NUTS Classifications for CEE
  
• Populated places in the world
  
• Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
  The Population Reference Bureau provides timely and objective information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications.
• Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
  SEDAC's mission is to develop and deliver information products and services that integrate social and natural science data in ways useful for decision making. The Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University, has been designated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to operate and maintain SEDAC, one of the data centers in the Earth Observing Data and Information System (EOSDIS).
• Rural and Urban Population
  
• Statoids
  Worldwide reference for states, provinces, governorates, counties, districts, and other subdivisions of countries
• Statoids administraive regions list
  Worldwide reference for states, provinces, governorates, counties, districts, and other subdivisions of countries
• The Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project
  
• Travel time to major cities: A global map of Accessibility - European Commission
  
• UN Second Administrative Level Boundaries(SALB)
  
• UNEP_GRID-Arendal Database_ Maps and Graphics
  The UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics library contains hundreds of illustrations on themes related to environment and sustainable development, such as climate change, water, poverty and security. This web-site collects graphics prepared in projects and publications, with a special focus on the Arctic, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Africa. The collection also includes interactive maps.
• Urbanization Maps Boston University
  Research ongoing at Boston University's Department of Geography on urban areas, urban growth, and mechanisms of urban change
• US Census Bureau Home Page
  The Census Bureau Web Site provides on-line access to our data, publications, and products.
• Vmap0 Coastline of the World
  
• Vmap0 Railroad of the World
  
• Vmap0 Roads of the World
  
• WHO - Mortality Database
  
• World Population Prospects The 2004 Revision Population Database
  
• World Urbanization Prospects
  

Gazeteers

• Alexandria Gazetteer Server Client
  
• Directory of Cities and Towns in World
  
• Falling Rain Genomics: World Gazetter
  
• GeoNames Gazetter
  
• Geonames Query Home Page
  NGA GNDB Database Query Form
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
  Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) is a structured vocabulary of geographic names for indexing art and architecture.
• Google Maps World Gazetteer | maplandia.com
  Google maps world gazetteer. Comprehensive and searchable directory of google satellite map locations in all countries of the world.
• NGA: GNS; Names Files of Selected Countries NIMA GAzetteer
  
• NIMA GNS Public Page
  NGA Database of Geographic Place Names
• PUBLIC NIMA GNPS QUERY FORM
  NGA Database of Geographic Place Names

Remote Sensing and Imagery

• ADDS - Africa Data Dissemination Service
  
• ASTER's Global View from Space
  
• ASTER's Remote Sensing Image Gallery
  ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) is a high resolution imaging instrument that is flying on the Terra satellite. ASTER will be used to obtain detailed maps of land surface temperature, emissivity, reflectance and elevation.
• AVHRR
  The NOAASIS is the starting point for essential information used by satellite receiving station operators who monitor the NOAA TIROS, GOES satellites and other environmental, meteorological or weather satellites operated by other countries
• China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite Applications
  
• China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite Home Page
  
• CIESIN - Satellite General information
  
• CONAE
  Argentinian Space Activities
• Dundee Satellite Receiving Centre
  
• Earth Observatory Newsroom: Blue Marble Next Generation
  
• Earth View
  This site is developed and maintained by John Walker, founder of Autodesk, Inc. and co-author of AutoCAD. A variety of documents, images, software for various machines, and interactive Web resources are available here; click on entries in the frame to the left to display a table of contents for that topic. Items which span more than one category are listed in all.
• EDC DAAC Data Products
  Digital Cartographic and Satellite Data Archives
• ENVISAT
  Envisat is the most powerful European Earth Observation satellite yet built. It has begun making the most complete set of observations of our planet that any satellite has ever carried out. Envisat monitors: The landOceansAtmosphereIce capsIt helps scientists to understand how changes to one, say climate, affect the others. Envisat is a key element of the European Space Agency�s plans for the next decade to monitor Earth�s environment.
• EROS Hyperion Product
  Systematic Terrain-Corrected (Level 1Gst) data product from the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) Hyperion sensor. This new processing option provides increased quality and improved geometric accuracy for the Hyperion data product. In the past, the Hyperion image product consisted of L1R (radiometrically corrected) data only.
• ERS/METEOSAT
  ESA Observing the Earth homepage, features the latest news on Earth observation missions and satellites, including ERS 1, ERS 2, Envisat, Metop, Meteosat and Living Planet.
• GeoCover - MrSid Image Server
  
• Eurimage EiNet(sm) Searchable Catalogue Home Page
  Multi-mission satellite data
• Eurimage ERS-1 and 2 data description
  Multi-mission satellite data
• Eurimage LANDSAT data descriptions
  Multi-mission satellite data
• Eurimage Products and Services
  Multi-mission satellite data
• European Remote Sensisng Satellites
  Respectively launched in 1991 and 1995, the ERS-1 and ERS-2 satellites for Earth Observation are an ESA success. Thanks to the quality, reliability and originality of the on-board instruments, many findings related to the Earth environment have been made and many applications derived from them.
• Free VEGETATION Products VITO
  Free VEGETATION Products
• Generalities - non-technical - very good!
  
• GIMMS
  The primary focus of the GIMMS group is to provide scientific Earth systems research with the use of AVHRR timeseries remote sensing data.
• GLCF Welcome Largest Free Source of Landsat Data
  
• GOES - updated
  The NOAASIS is the starting point for essential information used by satellite receiving station operators who monitor the NOAA TIROS, GOES satellites and other environmental, meteorological or weather satellites operated by other countries
• Infoterra UK (General info on availability. cost of several imagery types)
  Geographic information solutions include aerial photography and satellite imagery, interpreting geospatial information, managing geospatial information, software development and hosting of all geo-information.
• Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency EORC Homepage
  
• Landmap - Britain from Space
  
• Landsat 5 TM 1990 Kenya
  
• Landsat Data Access (USA)
  
• Landsat.org - Global Access to Landsat Data
  Landsat.org supports the purchasing, distribution, and sharing of Landsat 7 imagery worldwide by providing a simplified, platform-independent user interface and search engine with online data ordering. Landsat.org supports research centers, science teams, and educational organizations by providing customized search interfaces, access to data hosting services, clearinghouse services, data brokering, and imagery cooperatives.
• Links to Remote Sensing Data Directories and Inventories
  
• METEOSAT Second Generation at ESA
  
• MODIS: Home
  
• MODIS Land Discipline Web Site
  The MODIS Land Team web site at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• MSG Welcome Page and UK NERC
  
• NASA Earth Observatory
  NASA's Earth Observatory, exploring NASA's Earth Science
• NOAA Satellite Active Archive
  The Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) is an electronic library of NOAA environmental data. This web site provides capabilities for finding and obtaining those data. CLASS is NOAA's premiere on-line facility for the distribution of NOAA and US Department of Defense (DoD) Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) data, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) data, and derived data.
• ResMap: FREE On-line GIS-Ready Satellite Imagery
  
• SatImagingCorp.com: Satellite Image Pricing Information!
  
• Satellite info nice table
  
• Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
  
• Shuttle Radar Topography Mission - Small Water Bodies
  
• SPOT VEGETATION PROGRAMME
  The VEGETATION Programme is conceived to allow daily monitoring of terrestrial vegetation cover through remote sensing, at regional to global scales.
• SSTL Website Home
  SSTL is proud to have the world's most extensive track record of providing small satellite missions. This section of our site provides information on our current missions, and will soon include summaries of all past missions.
• TERRA at NASA
  TERRA Mission Public Outreach Portal
• The International Satellite Land-SurfaceClimatology Project, Initiative II Data Archive
  
• University of Maryland MODIS: Home
  
• USGS AVHRR 10-day composite
  Global Land 1-KM AVHRR Data Set Project.
• USGS EROS Satellite Image Browser
  USGS Global Visualization
• Welcome to Eurimage S.p.A.
  Multi-mission satellite data; high resolution and medium resolution imagery from QuickBird and Landsat. ERS and Envisat data, IRS, Spot, Ikonos, Radarsat.

Statistics

• AI-GEOSTATS_ The Central Web Server for GIS & Spatial Statistics
  AI-GEOSTATS.ORG is a web server dedicated to geostatistics and spatial statistics
• BManly Homepage - Spatial Stats
  
• http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~imfeld/diss
  All you wanted to know about points...
• Instituto Nacional de Estad�stica. (Spanish Statistical Institute) Agcensus 1999
  
• Kappa Coefficients A Critical Appraisal
  Kappa coefficient and weighted kappa: critical appraisal. Issues, pros and cons, references, etc.
• KS-test Data Entry
  
• Long list of statistics links of various sorts
  Middlebury College
• Peter Diggle Homepage
  
• References for international statistics Statistical sources
  
• SNEWS Mailing Archives
  
• Some Guidelines For Implementing Spatially Explicit, Individual-Based Ecological Models Within
  
• UNOSAT Free satellite imagery from the UN
  
• Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
  

Vegetation, Soils, Hydrology and Land Use

• A Compendium of On-Line Soil Survey Information - Digital Soil Survey
  Links to all digital soil maps available on-line or CD-ROM
• Biogeophysical Products downlaods - POSTEL
  
• Base de données cartographiques
  
• CIAT (Center For International Tropical Agriculture) GIS Site
  Land Use Project Web Site in the Interntational Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
• Cultivation Intensity
  
• Environment usgs
  Environment theme page
• EOS Data Gateway Primary Data Search
  
• ESA WATER: Global NRT Product Locations
  
• GLCF Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies
  
• GLCF: Earth Science Data Interface
  
• GLCF: Earth Science Data Interface MODIS 2001 tree, bare, herb
  
• Global Assessment of Human-induced Soil Degradation (GLASOD)
  ISRIC - World Soil Information. Mandate: To increase knowledge of the land, its soils in particular, and to support the sustainable use of land resources. Our aims: To inform and educate - through the World Soil Museum, public information, discussion and publication; As ICSU World Data Centre for Soils, to serve the scientific community as custodian of global soil information; To undertake applied research on land and water resources
• Global Assessment of Human-induced Soil Degradation (GLASOD - FAO page)
  
• Global Goode Projection GLCC Data Files Version 2.0
  Digital Cartographic and Satellite Data Archives
• Global Map of Irrigated areas & Johan Wolfgang Goethe Universitat
  
• Global Land Cover 2000, EU Joint Research Centre
  
• Global Land Cover Characterisation (GLCC) from USGS
  Digital Cartographic and Satellite Data Archives
• Global Land Cover Classification (GLCF) Africa Lambert Projection Data Files
  Digital Cartographic and Satellite Data Archives from USGS
• Global Land Cover Classification, Maryland University
  
• Global Land Cover Facility Amazon and Central Africa Forest Change Products
  
• Global Land Cover Facility Continuous Fields Tree Cover Project
  
• Global Land Cover Facility Data
  
• Global Map of Irrigated Area (GMIA)IMWI
  
• Global map of rainfed cropland areas
  IWMI Satellite sensor based
• IWMI Satellite sensor based map of land use / land cover areas
  
• IWMI Satellite sensor based generic 628 class map
  
• Global Soil Regions
  
• Global Rainforest Mapping Project
  
• GTOPO30
  GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) resulting from a collaborative effort led by the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, S.D. GTOPO30 was developed to meet the needs of the geospatial data user community for regional and continental scale 30-arc second elevation data.
• Global Vegetation and Land use
  From GISS Columbia University
• First global land cover map at 300 m resolution
  The POSTEL Service Centre has produced the first global land cover map at 300 m resolution, that discriminates the land surfaces in 22 classes representatives of the continental ecosystems. It is a preliminary version that may be viewed with a zooming capacity below. The map is derived from full resolution MERIS / ENVISAT data acquired in the period May 2005 - April 2006. It is produced in the framework of the GLOBCOVER project from ESA, which has appointed POSTEL / Medias-France as Prime Contractor for this project.
• Global wetland project
  
• GLOBCOVER project presentation from POSTEL
  
• HYDRO1k documentation
  Derived from GTOPO30.
• HydroSHEDS
  Global River Network from SRTM
• International Water Management Institute IWMI Home Page
  International Water Management Institute (IWMI) offers online resources such as findings, publications, links on water use in agriculture and integrated management of water and land resources in developing countries.IWMI is a non-profit scientific research organization specializing in improving water and land resources management for food, livelihoods and nature.
• Land Use Change - CD-ROMS
  LUC Project Description
• Land Use Change Project at IIASA
  LUC Project Description
• Landsat NASA Pathfinder deforestation-UMD
  
• LGRSS Global Land and tree Cover Project
  
• Mapping of Soil and Terrain Vulnerability in C&E Europe (SOVEUR)
  
• NASA Land Cover Land Use Change Program
  
• NASA World Wind
  
• NSRI Soil Horizon (UK)
  
• ORNL DAAC Search
  
• SAGE Data Models
  
• Soil Constraints
  from FAO World Soil Map
• Soil data From ISRIC
  ISRIC - World Soil Information. Mandate: To increase knowledge of the land, its soils in particular, and to support the sustainable use of land resources. Our aims: To inform and educate - through the World Soil Museum, public information, discussion and publication; As ICSU World Data Centre for Soils, to serve the scientific community as custodian of global soil information; To undertake applied research on land and water resources
• Soil Degradation in South and Southeast Asia (ASSOD)
  
• Suitability for rain-fed crops (maximizing technology mix)
  
• The European Soil database
  
• The FAO/AGL - Land and Water Digital Media Series
  FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Land and Water Development Division - Land and Water Digital Media Series
• The FAO Digital Soil Map of the World (DSMW)
  
• The FAO Global Soil and Terrain Database (SOTER)
  
• Soil Moisture Descriptions - POSTEL
  
• UNEP GRID Land Use
  
• Vmap0, Non Perennial Inland Water Areas of the World
  
• Vmap0, Perennial Inland Water Areas of the World
  
• Vmap0, Non-Perennial Water Courses (Rivers) of the World
  
• Vmap0, Perennial Water Courses (Rivers) of the World
  
• Wetlands and other Usda Data
  
• World Intact Forests Greenpeace