| Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN) |
| Temperature, precipitation and pressure data for over 10 000 stations. Data at station level. |
| Website: | http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ghcn/ghcn.html |
| Category: | Climate |
| Coverage: | Global |
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| 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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| Global Rainfall Map in Near Real time |
| Hourly global rainfall maps in quasi real time (about four hours after observation) using algorithms developed by the GSMaP Project. Image data is updated every hour |
| Website: | http://www.radar.aero.osakafu-.ac.jp/~gsmap/index_english.html |
| Category: | Climate |
| Coverage: | Global |
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| IWMI has released a webmap to give you simple & easy access to 102 years of climate data |
| This webpage allows you to select your location of interest either through a webmap or by entering its long/lat coordinates. In case you are interested in getting data just for a few locations this is the best and most simple option. This webmap gives you access to 102 years of monthly climate data at 0.5 deg resolution (the data source is CRU Climate Research Unit of University of East Anglia, UK) as indicated in the metadata. It also gives you access to 30 year averages from the IWMI Water and Climate Atlas at 0.1 deg resolution. |
| Website: | http://dw.iwmi.org/dataplatform/ClickandPlot.aspx |
| Category: | Climate |
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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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| IWMI has released a new and much improved version of the World Water and Climate Atlas interface |
| As with the previous versions you can easily export data for any area into text files. One of the new features I really enjoy is the ability to import ArcView/ArcGIS shapefiles on top of the climate & water layers. ArcInfo ascii grid coverages are available for all layers featured in the Atlas (see links at the end of this email or type ‘iwmi water atlas’ on CSI geonetwork). |
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| 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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| World Database on Protected Areas |
| The 2003 dataset includes protected areas recognized at the international and national levels. |
| Website: | http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/wdpa.shtml |
| Category: | Protected Areas & Biodiversity |
| 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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| The Global Biodiversity Information Facility: |
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| Website: | http://www.gbif.net/portal/index.jsp |
| 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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| GTOPO30 |
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| Website: | http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/gtopo30.asp |
| Category: | Elevation |
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| Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) |
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| Website: | http://srtm.usgs.gov/, http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/srtm/ |
| Category: | Elevation |
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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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| Digital Chart of the World (DCW) |
| National boundaries, roads, rail roads, water bodies, drainage, populated placed, cultural landmarks, utilities, land cover, ocean features, aeronautical data, vegetation. |
| Website: | http://ortelius.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/ |
| Category: | General Map Data |
| 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://earth.esa.int/aboutdescw |
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| Website: | http://earth.esa.int/aboutdescw |
| 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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