| High Resolution Gridded Datasets 10' resolution (~18km) |
| Mean precipiation, mean temperature, wet days, relative humidity, 10m wind speed, sunshine hours, elevation |
| Website: | http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/ |
| Category: | Climate |
| Coverage: | Global |
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| IWMI-CPWF have released an on-line data and information portal that provides access to water, agriculture and environment scientific data |
| The portal name is IDIS - Integrated Database Information System. It allows you to query, download, plot, graph shared data and access its metadata (in GeoNetwork of course – quite a few CGIAR centers have tried to build a similar multi-domain data sharing portal but none succeeded so far – this is a CGIAR breakthrough. |
| Website: | http://dw.iwmi.org |
| Category: | Climate |
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| The Global River Discharge Database (RivDIS): |
| Yearly time series with monthly data of discharge (m3/s) for about 1000 sites. |
| Website: | http://www.rivdis.sr.unh.edu |
| Category: | Water Resources |
| Coverage: | Global |
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| Global Land Cover Characterization |
| Land cover with different legends available |
| Website: | http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/glcc/ |
| Category: | Land Cover & Vegetation |
| Coverage: | Global & Continental |
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| Satellite imagery |
| Products from divers sensors, e.g Landsat, MODIS, ASTER, Quickbird, AVHRR |
| Website: | http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/ |
| Category: | Land Cover & Vegetation |
| Coverage: | Global & regional |
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| NO-CHARGE IMAGERY FOR EVERYONE! |
| The USGS has released a technical announcement outlining the plan for the release of no-charge Landsat data. |
| Website: | http://landcover.usgs.gov/ |
| Category: | Land Cover & Vegetation |
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| Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA 2000) |
| State and conditions of forest resources for the year 2000, and their changes over the last 20 years |
| Website: | http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/glcc/fao/index.html |
| Category: | Land Cover & Vegetation |
| Coverage: | Global |
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| Global Biodiversity Information |
| The convention on biological diversity: |
| Website: | http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml |
| Category: | Protected Areas & Biodiversity |
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| Digital charts of the world: |
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| Website: | http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/ |
| Category: | Protected Areas & Biodiversity |
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| Odden’s bookmarks a link library to maplibraries: |
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| Website: | http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.php |
| Category: | Protected Areas & Biodiversity |
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| Soil Map of the World and Derived Soil Properties |
| Soil data and derived properties |
| Website: | http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/agll/dsmw.htm |
| Category: | Soils & Snow Cover |
| Coverage: | Global |
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| WFP Snow cover |
| Vector file; the aim of this project is to provide daily updated information on snow covered areas as a support to WFP Logistics. |
| Website: | http://www.ithaca.polito.it/projects/nepal_snow.php |
| Category: | Soils & Snow Cover |
| Coverage: | Nepal and Pakistan |
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| GIS Climate Change Scenarios |
| Climate scenarios (e.g. air and surface pressure & temperature, precipitation flux, incoming and outcoming radiation, etc) |
| Website: | http://www.gisclimatechange.org/ |
| Category: | Climate Change |
| Coverage: | Global |
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| SALB: Second Level Administrative Boundaries |
| administrative boundaries down to the second sub-national level |
| Website: | http://www3.who.int/whosis/gis/salb/salb_home.htm |
| Category: | General Map Data |
| Coverage: | Global |
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| Global Map |
| Boundaries, Drainage, Transportation, Population Centers, Elevatic, Land Cover, Land Use, and Vegetation |
| Website: | http://www.iscgm.org/cgi-bin/fswiki/wiki.cgi |
| Category: | General Map Data |
| Coverage: | Global |
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| United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) – GEO Data Portal |
| The GEO Data Portal is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 450 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats. |
| Website: | http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/ |
| Category: | Others |
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| Group on Earth Observation |
| The GEOportal provides an entry point to access Earth Observationinforma tion and services. It will connect to a system of existing portals, addressing the GEO Societal Benefit Areas globally and provide national to regional perspective to achieve synergy and leverage. |
| Website: | http://www.geoportal.org |
| Category: | Others |
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| Global Land Cover Facility |
| Contain whole range of imagery and products. |
| Website: | http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/ |
| Category: | Others |
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| http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov |
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| Website: | http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov |
| Category: | Others |
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| http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/nfwebglis |
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| Website: | http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/nfwebglis |
| Category: | Others |
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| http://sirius.spotimage.fr |
| For SPOT data |
| Website: | http://sirius.spotimage.fr |
| Category: | Others |
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