FAO 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
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.
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.
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: 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
Goddard DAAC Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is a joint endeavor between NASA and Japan's National Space Development Agency. It is designed to monitor and study tropical rainfall and the associated release of energy that helps to power the global atmospheric circulation, shaping both global weather and climate.
Austin Texas University - Russian and East European Network Information Centre
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.
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.
Cloudmade Data Downloads
CloudMade helps you make the most of map data. We source our maps from OpenStreetMap, the community mapping project which is making a free map of the world.
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).
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.
GoGeo
GoGeo is the place to discover spatial datasets, geographical resources and services for those in education and research.
Map Library
The Map Library is a source of public domain basic map data concerning administrative boundaries in developing countries. The data is broken down into manageable chunks to make it easier to download for those with poor internet connections.
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.
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.
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, 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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Mapping Urban Areas Globally
Research ongoing at Boston University's Department of Geography on urban areas, urban growth, and mechanisms of urban change
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).
Statoids administrative regions list
Worldwide reference for states, provinces, governorates, counties, districts, and other subdivisions of countries
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.
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.
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
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.
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 land, Oceans, Atmosphere, Ice caps. It helps scientists to understand how changes to one, say climate, affect the others. Envisat is a key element of the European Space Agencys 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
SPOT VEGETATION PROGRAMME
The VEGETATION Programme is conceived to allow daily monitoring of terrestrial vegetation cover through remote sensing, at regional to global scales.
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited - 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.
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.
IPUMS - Integrated Public Use Microdata Series International
IPUMS-International is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. Its goals are to Collect and preserve data and documentation, Harmonize data, Disseminate the data absolutely free!
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
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.
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.
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.
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
