Land Cover Institute (LCI)

Global Interactive View

About:	Comparison of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme Land Cover Classification dataset and global satellite derived imagery. Map allows users to zoom into regions and examine satellite and land cover data side by side.
Website:	http://www-gem.jrc.it/glc2000/interactive/glc2000_vgt.html

Global Land Project

About:

The Global Land Project is a proposed joint research project for land systems for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP). The Global Land Project Science Plan represents the research framework for the coming decade for land systems. This development of a research strategy is designed to better integrate the understanding of the coupled human-environment system. The Global Land Project Science Plan has been defined by scientists sponsored by the IGBP and the IHDP.

Website:

http://biology.usgs.gov/luhna/program.html

Land Use History of North America

About:

This website addresses some of these questions for several regions of North America, it strives to convey the importance of a historical context for understanding ongoing changes in land cover and land use. It also aims to inspire scientists, educators, and science administrators to contribute to the development of a comprehensive land-use history of North America to guide environmental policy and management decisions during the coming century and beyond. The report is prepared with NASA on the importance of a historical context for understanding ongoing changes in land cover and land use in North America and the effect on the environment. Site contains primarily contents of a book edited by T.D. Sisk.

Website:

Land Use History of North America (LUHNA) Program (Information)

About:	This web site addresses some of these questions for several regions of North America. More importantly, it strives to convey the importance of a historical context for understanding ongoing changes in land cover and land use.
Website:	http://biology.usgs.gov/luhna/

Natural Resources Canada

About:	Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) plays a pivotal role in helping shape the important contributions of the natural resources sector to the Canadian economy, society and environment. This sector�forests, energy, minerals and metals, and landmass, as well as related industries�is one of the most productive, high-tech sectors in the global economy.
Website:	http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/inter/index_e.html

Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring

About:	The Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Action provides a long-term picture of the conditions in ecosystems identified according to the priorities of European Union aid, development and international environmental policies: sustainable land management, forest resources and conservation, disturbance by fire and biodiversity losses.
Website:	http://www-tem.jrc.it/

The Atlas of Canada

About:	The Atlas of Canada provides authoritative, current and accessible geographic information products at a national level. Working with partners, the Atlas facilitates the integration and analysis of diverse data in order to increase overall knowledge about Canada.
Year:	N/A
Scale:	National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/environment/land

United Nations Environmental Program

About:	The North American Node of UNEP GRID, located at the USGS EROS Data Center, is in the forefront of applying information technology tools such as remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and web mapping to address the relationships between the environment and human populations.
Website:	http://grid2.cr.usgs.gov/

United States Climate Change Science Program

About:	During the past thirteen years the United States, through the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), has made the world's largest scientific investment in the areas of climate change and global change research -- a total investment of almost $20 billion.
Website:	http://www.climatescience.gov/

United States Global Change Research Program

About:	The U.S. Global Change Research Program supports research on the interactions of natural and human-induced changes in the global environment and their implications for society.
Website:	http://www.usgcrp.gov/

USGS International Program at EROS

About:

The International Program specializes in projects that use remotely sensed data or geographic information systems to address issues of sustainable development, resource management, land cover change, monitoring, and early warning systems in many countries around the world. These projects are illustrated in program activities. Projects are developed based on specific requests from other U.S. agencies, NGOs, International Donors, or host countries. Training, capacity building, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing needs assessments, and personnel development are integral components of projects that emphasize both scientific and development activities.

Website:

http://landcover.usgs.gov/accuracy/index.php

United States Land Cover Data Links

Aquifers of Alluvial and Glacial Origin

About:	Compiled by the USGS this map shows alluvial aquifers, which are those that were deposited by a stream or other body of running water in a streambed, on a flood plain, on a delta, or at the base of a mountain. Glacial aquifers are formations that were deposited by a glacier. This map layer was compiled by the USGS.
Year:	1992-1997
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www.nationalatlas.gov/mld/alvaqfp.html

ATSR World Fire Atlas

About:	The ATSR World Fire Atlas is the first multi-year Fire Atlas ever developed. It extends from 1995 to present (ERS-2 and ENVISAT). All Hot Spots (including gas flares) with a high temperature at night are precisely located using the 3.7 micron thermal channel
Year:	November 1995 to Present (processing ongoing)
Location:	Global
Website:	http://dup.esrin.esa.int/ionia/wfa/index.asp

CLIMSCAT

About:	The products consist in monthly Soil Water Indexes (SWI) derived from the ERS Wind Scatterometer. In addition, SWI difference products are also available, which correspond to the difference of the instantaneous measurement with the 92-00 average value.
Year:	January 1992 to February 2001 (Monthly)
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/radar/index.php?go=ascat

Global Aerosol from Earth Observation (GlobAerosol)

About:	The GlobAEROSOL generates daily global aerosol maps for the period 1995-2007 by merging ATSR-2, AATSR, MERIS and SEVIRI satellite data. The products produced are aerosol optical depths at 0.55 and 0.87um and Angstrom coefficient and estimated speciation.
Year:	1995-2007
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.globaerosol.info/project_description/data.htm

Principal Aquifers of the 48 Conterminous United States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands

About:	The Principal Aquifers of the 48 Conterminous United States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands map layer shows those aquifers that supply ground water. For each geographic area, the aquifer shown is generally the uppermost principal aquifer. Each principal aquifer is classified as one of six types of permeable geologic material: unconsolidated deposits of sand and gravel, semiconsolidated sand, sandstone, carbonate rocks, interbedded sandstone and carbonate rocks, or basalt and other types of volcanic rock.
Year:	2003
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www.nationalatlas.gov/mld/aquifrp.html

1:250,000-scale Hydrologic Units of the United States

About:	The Geographic Information Retrieval and Analysis System (GIRAS) was developed in the mid 70s to put into digital form a number of data layers which were of interest to the USGS. One of these data layers was the Hydrologic Units. The map is based on the Hydrologic Unit Maps published by the U.S. Geological Survey Office of Water Data Coordination, together with the list descriptions and name of region, subregion, accounting units, and cataloging unit. The hydrologic units are encoded with an eight- digit number that indicates the hydrologic region (first two digits), hydrologic subregion (second two digits), accounting unit (third two digits), and cataloging unit (fourth two digits).
Year:	Revised May 2006
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/huc250k.xml

Alaska 1991 AVHRR Land Cover Characteristics

About:	Advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) satellite data were acquired and composited into twice a month periods from 1 May 1991 to 15 October 1991 to map vegetation characteristics over the Alaskan landscape. Unique spatial and temporal qualities of the AVHRR data provide information that leads to a better understanding of regional biophysical characteristics of vegetation communities and patterns. These data provided synoptic views of the landscape and depicted phenological diversity, temporal vegetation phenology (green-up, peak of green, and senescence), photosynthetic activity, and regional landscape patterns. Products generated from the data included a phenological class map, phenological composite maps (onset, peak, and duration), and photosynthetic activity maps (mean and maximum greenness).
Year:	1991
Scale:	State
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://agdc.usgs.gov/data/usgs/erosafo/ak_avhrr/1991ak_avhrr.html

Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI)

About:	In response to indications of worldwide declines in amphibian populations, the President and Congress directed Interior Department agencies to initiate a national program of amphibian monitoring, research, and conservation. As a result, the Agency formed the National Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative.
Year:	2000 to present
Scale:	Local, regional and national
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://gisdata.usgs.net/website/armi/

Arsenic in Ground Water of the United States

About:	The Arsenic in Ground Water of the United States image was generated from the most recent arsenic measurement available for each of 31,350 wells and springs across the United States. It shows national-scale patterns of naturally occurring arsenic in potable ground-water resources of the continental United States and Puerto Rico.
Year:	1973-2001
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www.nationalatlas.gov/metadata/arsenci020l.faq.html

Atlas of United States Trees

About:	Maps of the ranges of tree species in North America compiled by Elbert Little, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, and others were digitized for use in USGS' vegetation-climate modeling studies. These digital map files are available here for download.
Year:	1966 - 1978
Scale:	National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/data/atlas/little/

Bailey's Ecoregions and Subregions of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands

About:	Ecoregions are ecosystems of regional extent. Bailey's ecoregions distinguish areas that share common climatic and vegetation characteristics. A four-level hierarchy is used to differentiate the ecoregions, with the broadest classification being the domain. Domains are groups of related climates and are differentiated based on precipitation and temperature.
Year:	2004
Scale:	National
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www.nationalatlas.gov/mld/ecoregp.html

Boston University Land Cover and Land Cover Dynamics Research

About:	We are engaged in a number of land cover and land cover dynamics research activities. The principal activities are developing Land Cover and Land Cover Dynamics products for NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land science team. We also maintain the Confidence Site database for global land cover mapping validation, part of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP).
Scale:	Global
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www-modis.bu.edu/landcover/

California - Land Resource Protection

About:	Produces Geographical Information System datasets focused on land use change affecting agriculture in the state of California.
Year:	1984-2004
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.consrv.ca.gov/DLRP/fmmp/index.htm

California Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring Program

About:	The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the USDA Forest Service conduct land cover mapping and monitoring to enhance fire protection and natural resource management on public and private lands in California. This program uses Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) satellite imagery to map land cover types and derive land cover changes across all ownerships. The state is covered in five unique project areas. One project area is completed each year, then revisited and updated every fifth year.
Year:	1950 - present
Scale:	Cascade Northeast, North Coast, Northern Sierra, South Coast and Southern Sierra.
Cost:	Cost
Website:	http://frap.cdf.ca.gov/projects/land_cover/index.html

Causes of Forest Fragmentation in the United States, 1km, 270m 540m

About:	The Causes of Forest Fragmentation map layers were derived from NLCD by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). These map layers are grid maps of the conterminous United States, showing both forest connectivity and whether fragmentation is from human or natural causes. The layers are the first to identify sources of forest fragmentation, and may be useful for decision makers in identifying forest areas for protection or restoration.
Year:	1992
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www.nationalatlas.gov/mld/frfrg2i.html

Central Nebraska Basins Study Unit

About:	To address the need for consistent and scientifically sound information for managing the Nation's water resources, the U.S. Geological Survey began a full-scale National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program in 1991. This program is unique compared to other national water-quality assessment studies in that it integrates the monitoring of surface- and ground-water chemistry with the study of aquatic ecosystems.
Year:	1991 - Present
Scale:	Regional
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://ne.water.usgs.gov/html/Nawqa/

Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP)

About:	The NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program is a nationally standardized database of land cover and change information, developed using remotely sensed imagery, for the coastal regions of the U.S. Coastal Change Analysis Program land cover products inventory coastal intertidal areas, wetlands, and adjacent uplands with the goal of monitoring changes in these habitats, on a one-to-five year cycle. This effort is in conjunction with the National Land Cover Dataset 2001.
Year:	2001
Scale:	Coastal States of the US only
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/lca/ccap.html

Coastal Great Lakes Land Cover

About:	For this project, the NOAA Coastal Services Center created land cover and change data for the Great Lakes region (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) according to Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) standards. These data are the first coastal land cover information available region-wide for the Great Lakes since 1992.
Year:	Michigan: 1995 - 2000, All Other States: 1996 - 2001
Scale:	State
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/lca/hawaii.html

Energy Consumption - Estimated Energy per Capita, 1960-2001

About:	The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is a statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy. EIA conducts statistical surveys of energy producers, businesses, transporters, and other users; analyzes issues about energy including economics, technology, energy production, prices, distribution, storage, consumption, and environmental effects; and produces forecasts of supply, consumption, prices, and other important factors. These policy-independent data, forecasts, and analyses are used to promote sound policy making, efficient markets, and public understanding regarding energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.
Year:	1960-2001
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www.nationalatlas.gov/mld/ete000t.html

EOS - Webster, University of New Hampshire

About:	EOS-WEBSTER provides free, customized Earth Science data. Their data holdings can be searched spatially, temporally, or by keyword, freetext, or collection name.
Scale:	County (USA) to Global
Website:	http://eos-webster.sr.unh.edu/data_guides.jsp

Federal Lands of the United States

About:	National parks, national wildlife refuges, military reservations, Federal prisons, and public-domain land are all examples of lands owned or administered by the Government of the United States. The Federal Government is responsible for managing and protecting these lands to preserve the resources of the United States, to conduct the business of the Government, and to provide recreational and other opportunities to the public. This map layer was compiled by the National Atlas of the United States�.
Year:	1972-2005
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www.nationalatlas.gov/mld/fedlanp.html

Forest Inventory and Analysis Program

About:	Provides information about timber harvesting and timber use across the United States. Also there is a site to allow users to create tabular summaries, make maps and/or download data by state and Inventory.
Year:	Varies per State
Scale:	State
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://fia.fs.fed.us/

Front Range Infrastructure Resources Project (FRIRP) - select land for a list of datasets

About:	These high-resolution land use and land cover (LULC) data sets were generated as part of the Land Characterization research activities for the Front Range Infrastructure Resources Project.
Year:	1930, 1950, 1970, and 1990
Scale:	Colorado
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/frontrange/datasets.htm

Gap Analysis Program

About:	The goal of the GAP Analysis Program is to keep common species common by identifying those species and plant communities that are not adequately represented in existing conservation lands. GAP is organized on a project basis. Most states have conducted an analysis of their own land cover and vertebrate biodiversity. Regional mapping projects have begun, as have some aquatic projects. These pages provide content detailing the status of projects, as well as links to project contacts, products, and home pages.
Year:	1995 to present
Scale:	Local, regional and national
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://gapanalysis.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=207&PageID=0&cached=true&mode=2&userID=2

Geospatial One Stop - geodata.gov

About:	geodata.gov will help you: Find Data or Map Services, Make a Map, Browse Community Information, and Cooperate on Data Acquisitions. You may also save searches, maps, and your favorite geography to re-use later. A simple registration process opens up these personalization options.
Year:	Historical - Present
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://gos2.geodata.gov/wps/portal/gos

GIRAS Landuse/Landcover data for the Conterminous United States by quadrangles at scale 1:250,000

About:	This is land use/land cover digital data collected by USGS and converted to ARC/INFO by the EPA. This data is useful for environmental assessment of land use patterns with respect to water quality analysis, growth management, and other types of environmental impact assessment. Use may be limited due to currency.
Year:	1977 - 1980
Scale:	Water Basin
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2006/240/

Global Burned Forest Mapping (GlobScar)

About:	The products consist in monthly incremental burnt areas maps, derived using remote sensing data from ATSR-2 onboard ERS-2, at a resolution of 1km, during year 2000.
Year:	2000
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.geosuccess.net/geosuccess/relay.do?dispatch=introduction

Global Land Cover (GlobCover)

About:	The GlobCover programme develops a service that produces a time series of surface reflectance composites and a land cover classification at global scale for the year 2005/2006. An international network of partners is working with ESA on the project, including EEA, FAO, GOFC-GOLD, IGBP, JRC and UNEP.
Year:	2005 to 2006
Location:	Global
Website:	http://ionia1.esrin.esa.int/

Global Land Cover Network

About:	In response to the high demand of natural resource information to meet multi-user requirements, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) have jointly developed the Global Land Cover Network - GLCN initiative.
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Authentication Required
Website:	http://www.glcn.org/

Global Land Products for Carbon Model Assimilation (GlobCarbon)

About:	GLOBCARBON involves the development of a service to generate fully calibrated estimates of land products based on a variety of Earth Observation data, suitable for assimilation into sophisticated software simulations of the planet created by the global carbon modelling community.
Year:	1998 - 2007
Location:	Global
Website:	http://dup.esrin.esa.it/projects/summaryp43.asp

Global Ocean Colour for Carbon Cycle Research(GlobColour)

About:	One objective of GlobColour is to produce a long time series (10 years) of ocean colour data merged from four satellite data sources: i) the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer Instrument (MERIS) aboard ENVISAT, ii) the Moderate Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) on the Aqua Earth Observing System (EOS) mission, iii)the Sea-viewing Wide Field of view Sensor (SeaWiFS) on board OrbView-2.
Year:	10 years, 1997 to 2006
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.globcolour.info/

Ground Water Climate Response Network

About:	The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Resources Program, in cooperation with hundreds of Federal, State, and local agencies, collects nationally-consistent information about the Nation's ground water resources and helps define and manage those resources.
Year:	2005
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www.nationalatlas.gov/mld/gwwst0x.html

GTOPO30 Digital Elevation Model

About:	GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer). GTOPO30 was derived from several raster and vector sources of topographic information. For easier distribution, GTOPO30 has been divided into tiles. Detailed information on the characteristics of GTOPO30 including the data distribution format, the data sources, production methods, accuracy, and hints for users, is found in the GTOPO30 README file.
Year:	1996
Scale:	Global
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/gtopo30/gtopo30.html

Hawaii Land Cover Analysis

About:	This project was accomplished through the assistance of the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Hawaii Coastal Zone Management Program, other agencies associated with the Hawaii Gap Analysis Program (U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, University of Hawaii, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Hawaii Natural Heritage Program), and the U.S. Geological Survey EROS Data Center. For this project, the NOAA Coastal Services Center created the first comprehensive baseline land cover map for the Hawaiian Islands.
Year:	2000
Scale:	State
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/lca/hawaii.html

Indian Lands of the United States

About:	Indian lands are areas with boundaries established by treaty, statute, and (or) executive or court order, recognized by the Federal Government as territory in which American Indian tribes have primary governmental authority. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is responsible for the administration and management of 55.7 million acres of land held in trust by the United States for American Indians, Indian tribes, and Alaska Natives, and maintains a list of the 562 Federally recognized tribal governments. This map layer was compiled by the National Atlas of the United States�.
Year:	2005
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www.nationalatlas.gov/mld/indlanp.html

kentucky Geological Survey GeoPortal

About:	Users of KGSGeoPortal specify a geographic area of interest by selecting a method (e.g., county name, coordinate location, or stream name) and specifying a value for that feature type. A basemap shows the area selected and the user can refine the map extent by using zoom or pan functions. Links to other Internet services can then be initiated using the coordinate extents of the map. The linked services start in a new browser window, so that multiple services can be compared. The feature for linking to other services can also be imbedded in existing internet map services to provide service-to-service functionality.
Scale:	State
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://kgsmap.uky.edu/website/KGSGeoPortal/KGSGeoPortal.asp

Lake Tahoe Data Clearinghouse

About:	This Lake Tahoe Data Clearinghouse website, created and maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey in partnership with Federal, State, tribal, and local agencies and groups, is a gateway to information and data on Lake Tahoe and its basin.
Year:	1997 to present
Scale:	Lake Tahoe
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://tahoe.usgs.gov/

Land Cover Analysis

About:	This Web site provides land cover mapping data, tools, and assistance to the coastal management community. The NOAA Coastal Services Center works with resource managers and mapping professionals to promote the use of land cover mapping to address coastal management issues.
Scale:	U.S. coastal zone
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/lca/

Land Cover Analysis Tool (LCAT)

About:	In 2006, the Eastern Geographic Science Center began a joint project to develop a custom application to provide enhanced public access to USGS�s National Land Cover Database (NLCD). The resulting Land Cover Analysis Tool (LCAT) allows users to quickly locate, display, and download data from the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) , including the recently developed NLCD Change Product, which displays changes in land cover between 1992 and 2001.
Year:	NLCD 1992 & 2001
Scale:	Conterminous US & Alaska
Cost:	No Charge
Contact:	John Aguinaldo [ jagui@usgs.gov ]
Website:	http://lcat.usgs.gov/

Land Cover Diversity

About:	Land cover diversity data describe the variety of land covers surrounding a particular location. If only a few land cover types are found nearby, the diversity index is low. If many types of land cover are found nearby, the diversity index is high.
Year:	1992-1993
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www.nationalatlas.gov/mld/lcdvrsi.html

Land Cover Topic Center

About:	In the Global Land Cover Network framework, FAO and UNEP set up in Rome and in Florence a Land Cover Topic Centre, to provide updated information, technical support, products (LCCS, GEOVIS and MAP software) in the field of land cover mapping.
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Registration Required
Website:	http://www.glcn-lccs.org/

Land Cover Trends

About:	Land Cover Trends is a research project focused on understanding the rates, trends, causes, and consequences of contemporary U.S. land use and land cover change. The rates of land use and land cover change are estimated using a stratified random sampling of 10-km by 10-km blocks allocated within an ecoregion-based spatial framework. The Land Cover Trends project uses the Environmental Protection Agency defined Level III ecoregions as the spatial framework for national assessment and reporting.
Year:	1973 to 2001 (working project - not all data available)
Scale:	Ecoregion format, USA
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://eros.usgs.gov/LT/

Land Surface Characterization in Alaska and Arctic Regions

About:	The Alaska Geographic Science Office of the USGS Alaska Science Center, conducts investigations into the use of remote sensing and GIS technologies for characterizing terrestrial ecosystems and land processes in the Arctic region. Many of these projects directly support the U.S. Geological Survey Global Change Research Program, an operational component of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). The Alaskan and Arctic research activities described in this page relate primarily to the USGS theme of Land Surface Characterization and Land Remote Sensing.
Year:	Varies
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://mapping-ak.wr.usgs.gov/research.html

Landfire Project

About:	LANDFIRE produces digital geospatial data describing existing vegetation composition and structure; potential fire behavior and effects; fuel models; simulated historical fire regimes; and fire regime condition class. Mapped data is produced based on peer-reviewed science from the fields of remote sensing, ecosystem simulation, predictive landscape modeling, vegetation and disturbance ecology, and fire behavior and effects.
Year:	2006, 2008, 2009 (working project - not all data available)
Scale:	Zonal format, USA
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.landfire.gov/Products.html

Landsat Data

About:	Landsat satellites have been collecting images of the Earth's surface for more than thirty years. NASA launched the first Landsat satellite in 1972, and the most recent one, Landsat 7, in 1999. Instruments onboard the satellites have acquired millions of images of the Earth. These images provide a unique resource for people who work in agriculture, geology, forestry, regional planning, education, mapping, and global change research.
Year:	1984 - Present
Scale:	National
Cost:	COSTS
Website:	http://landsat.usgs.gov/data_products/index.php

Landslide Monitoring

About:	Monitoring is essential to predicting the behavior of landslides and forecasting which storms can trigger large numbers of landslides. Scientists in the USGS Landslide Hazards Program monitor selected landslides and hillsides in order to learn more about the physical processes that trigger landslides or control their movement
Year:	Varies per study site
Location:	California, Washington, Colorado, Oregon
Website:	http://landslides.usgs.gov/monitoring/

Louisiana Coastal Area - Louisiana, Ecosystem Restoration

About:	Beginning in November 2001, the Corps and the State of Louisiana began a cooperative interagency study effort to develop a comprehensive plan to restore Louisiana`s coastal ecosystem. The purpose of this study was to develop a comprehensive plan that would form a blueprint for the construction of projects for ecosystem restoration of the state`s coastal wetlands.
Year:	Historical - present
Scale:	Louisiana
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.lca.gov/landchangemaps.aspx

Major Dams of the United States

About:	The National Inventory of Dams (NID) is a collection of information about dams in the United States and its territories, produced by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The National Inventory of Dams contains more than 79,000 dams, provided voluntarily by a wide variety of agencies. This information is used to track information on the country's water control infrastructure and to allocate Federal resources for dam safety programs.
Year:	2002-2004
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www.nationalatlas.gov/mld/dams00x.html

Mapping Partnership Office of Texas

About:	The Texas Mapping Partnership Office (MPO) fosters partnerships with federal, state, and local GIS entities in Texas. The office participates in statewide policy and technical councils related to mapping, assists agencies to standardize data integration to match surrounding states and Mexico, and implements geographic science and applications projects.
Year:	1999 to Present
Scale:	Texas
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://tx.usgs.gov/geography/

Modeling Urban Expansion in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area; A Cellular Automata Approach

About:	Historical land-use data from the twentieth century was used as input to the SLEUTH land-use change model, a Cellular Automata model developed by Keith Clarke at the University of California at Santa Barbara, to produce projections of urban expansion in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
Year:	Historical � past 50 years
Scale:	Regional
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/de_river_basin/phil/gis.html

MODIS Active Fire Mapping Regional Maps

About:	The MODIS Active Fire Maps provide coverage for each of the eleven Geographic Areas of the United States in addition to an overview map for the eastern and western United States. Geographic areas are areas designated by the wildland fire protection agencies, where these agencies work together to coordinate and effectively utilize fire suppression resources. Some Geographic Areas cover very large areas and are subdivided into smaller "Sub Geographic Area Maps" for cartographic purposes.
Year:	Since 1st January of the current year
Scale:	Regional
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://firemapper.sc.egov.usda.gov/activefiremaps.php

MODIS Web

About:	The MODIS Data section contains everything from Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents to Product Descriptions to tutorials on ordering MODIS data from the various Distributed Active Archive Centers.
Scale:	National and Global
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/

National Land Cover Database 2001 (NLCD 2001)

About:	The National Land Cover Database 2001 is a 21-class land cover classification scheme applied consistently over the United States and Puerto Rico. It is an updated product from the NLCD1992, which in addition will also include percent impervious and percent tree canopy cover. The resolution is 30 meters.
Year:	2001 (working project - not all data available)
Scale:	State
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.mrlc.gov/nlcd_multizone_map.php

National Land Cover Dataset 1992 (NLCD 1992)

About:	Derived from circular 1990s Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite data, the National Land Cover Dataset is a 21-class land cover classification scheme applied consistently over the United States. The spatial resolution of the data is 30 meters.
Year:	1992
Scale:	State
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://landcover.usgs.gov/natllandcover.php

National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program

About:	The U.S. Geological Survey began its National Water Quality Assessment program in 1991, systematically collecting chemical, biological, and physical water quality data from 42 study units (basins) across the nation. Site, basin and, well and network characteristics and daily stream flow of just some of the many variables available for download.
Year:	1991 to Present
Scale:	Local, regional, and national
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://infotrek.er.usgs.gov/traverse/f?p=NAWQA:HOME:3601090624052098588

Nebraska Department of Natural Resources

About:	The purpose of the Data Bank is to develop, store, process and manage natural resources data relating to land and water resources of the State, and make the information available to government agencies and the general public in a user-friendly and timely manner.
Year:	1969 - Present
Scale:	State
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.dnr.ne.gov/databank/dbindex.html

Nebraska Geospatial Data Center

About:	The Nebraska Geospatial Data Center provides internet access to a wide variety of geospatial databases developed and/or maintained by various state, federal and local government agencies, academic institutions, and private entities.
Year:	N/A
Scale:	County, State
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.dnr.ne.gov/databank/geospatial.html

NOAA Digital Coast: Legislative Atlas

About:	A growing number of regional collaborations are forming among federal, state, and local agencies across the country to address management issues that cut across existing political and jurisdictional boundaries. The Legislative Atlas supports regional ocean and coastal management efforts by mapping key state and federal laws and jurisdictions. Use this site to find: � A searchable database of coastal and ocean legislation � State and federal legislative and agency summaries � Downloadable spatial data and metadata � On-line mapping
Year:	1976 - Present
Scale:	National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.csc.noaa.gov/legislativeatlas/

OceanColor Web

About:	Ocean Color promotes the application of remotely-sensed ocean-colour data through coordination, training, liaison between providers and users, advocacy and provision of expert advice. Ocean data from MODIS Aqua and SeaWiFs are available for download from this website.
Scale:	Global
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/

River Observations for Management Applications (ROMA) Project

About:	This project address the need to integrate and apply information to help understand the consequences that land surface changes have on sediment erosion and deposition that is critical to managing the natural resources of the watershed and the Chesapeake Bay.
Year:	N/A
Scale:	Regional
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://erg.usgs.gov/rit/

SILVIS Lab - Forest Ecology & Management University of Wisconsin - Madison

About:	Research in the SILVIS lab focuses on anthropogenic landscape change. We study drivers, patterns and effects of change. A national assessment of housing growth in the wildland urban interface provides important baseline data for wildfire policy and management. Related project show how sprawl increases landscape fragmentation, decreases bird species populations, and changes forest management. International research focuses on land cover change, especially agricultural abandonment in Eastern Europe following the breakdown of the USSR in 1990 and the resulting opportunities for conservation.
Year:	1937 - 2030 (time scale varies by project)
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.silvis.forest.wisc.edu/projects.asp

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

About:	NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), based at CIESIN, has gridded nearly 12,000 species distribution maps which were originally in vector format (ESRI shapefile). The original data were developed by a consortium of conservation organizations including NatureServe, IUCN, Conservation International, and World Wildlife Fund-USA. To make these data more useful for modeling and for integration with socioeconomic and other data, SEDAC converted the entire collection of shapefiles to raster format. This newly released Web site provides a search facility for quickly locating and downloading 1-kilometer (30 arc-second) resolution grids of selected species maps in GeoTIFF format. Data are available for global amphibian distributions, and for birds and mammals in the Americas. The Web site provides access to individual species distribution grids, along with family grids that show the density and distribution of species within a given family.
Scale:	1km (30 arc-second)
Website:	http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/species/

The National Hydrography Dataset

About:	The National Hydrography Dataset is the culmination of recent cooperative efforts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Geological Survey. It combines the best of the EPA Reach File Version 3.0 (RF3) and USGS Digital Line Graph hydrography files: hydrologic ordering, hydrologic navigation for modeling applications, and a unique identifier (reach code) for surface water features from RF3; and the spatial accuracy and comprehensiveness of DLG hydrography.
Year:	Dependant upon the production date of the initial linework and whether this linework was updated when the DLG files were created by USGS. Therefore the vintage of the linework can vary from the 1950s to the mid-1980s.
Scale:	Conterminous US = 1:100,000, Puerto Rico = 1:20,000, Virgin Islands = 1:24,000 and Alaska = 1:63,360.
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://nhd.usgs.gov/

The Plate River Program

About:	Nine endangered species use the central Platte River Valley for habitat, including the whooping crane, piping plover, and least tern. Changes in water and land use have transformed the river channel and altered adjacent wet meadows. With changes in the hydrology of the river and the structure of riparian habitats, the sustainability of migratory and resident birds and other biota have been brought into question.
Year:	N/A
Scale:	Regional
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/platte/

Twentieth-Century Land Surface Changes in the Delaware Water Gap Basin, a Temporal GIS Analysis

About:	Methods of integrating land-surface data and measuring change with time are being tested on historical land use/land cover data of the Delaware Water Gap watershed area in Pennsylvania.
Year:	Data Ranges 1893 - 1999
Scale:	Regional
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/de_river_basin/de_water_gap/index.html

U.S. Department of Labor

About:	The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.The BLS is an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies, State and local governments, business, and labor. The BLS also serves as a statistical resource to the Department of Labor.
Year:	1996 - Present
Scale:	Lcoal, Regional and National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.bls.gov/home.htm

United States Department of Agriculture

About:	The National Resources Inventory (NRI) is a statistical survey of natural resource conditions and trends on nonfederal land in the United States - nonfederal lands include privately owned lands, tribal and trust lands, and lands controlled by State and local governments. The NRI provides nationally consistent statistical data on how these lands are used and on changes in land use patterns for the period 1982 - 2002. To assess conservation issues on nonfederal rural lands, this land use information must be analyzed in conjunction with the other NRI data elements. Land uses of particular interest are those that are used in the production of agricultural and timber products that are the foundation of our Nation's agricultural economy.
Year:	1992-2002
Scale:	National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/TECHNICAL/land/cover_use.html

United States Department of Agriculture - Crop Explorer

About:	Provides information on crops and conditions by region, satellite images, live data and maps, with links to production estimates, area, yield, and crop assessments.
Year:	2008
Scale:	Continental
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/index.cfm

United States Forest Types

About:	This map layer portrays general forest cover types for the United States. Data were derived from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) composite images recorded during the 1991 growing season, with the exception of Puerto Rico, for which Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data were used. A total of 25 classes of forest cover types were interpreted from the AVHRR and TM imagery, aided by field observations and refined with ancillary data from digital elevation models.
Year:	1991
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www.nationalatlas.gov/mld/foresti.html

United States Phenology

About:	The U.S. Geological Survey for Earth Resources Observation and Science has produced greenness information of the conterminous U.S. and Alaska using -km Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer data for almost 20 years.
Year:	January 1989 to Present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://edc.usgs.gov/greenness/

US Census Bureau

About:	The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.
Year:	1870 - Present however, data availability varies per topic
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.census.gov/

USDA Census of Agriculture

About:	The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts hundreds of surveys every year and prepares reports covering virtually every aspect of U.S. agriculture-production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, farm finances, chemical use, and changes in the demographics of U.S. producers to name a few.
Year:	1863 - Present
Scale:	Local, Regional, and National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.nass.usda.gov/index.asp

USGS Center for LIDAR Information Coordination and Knowledge

About:	There has been increasing demand for research utilizing all information generated from lidar remote sensing data and not just bare earth digital elevation models (DEMs). While this technology has been a proven mapping tool, effective for generating bare earth DEMs,research on using the entire point cloud of this remote sensing data for scientific applications have been slowed by:i) the high cost of collecting lidar ii)a steep learning curve on research and understanding involving utilizing the entire point cloud. The goal of CLICK is to facilitate data access, user coordination and education of lidar remote sensing for scientific needs.
Year:	2002 - Present
Scale:	Sate
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://lidar.cr.usgs.gov/

USGS Geographic Data Download

About:	These data files are for use in geographical information systems (GIS) for analysis and integration with other geospatial data. Digital Elevation Models, National Elevation Dataset, Digital Line Graphs, Historical Land Use and Land Cover, National Hydrography Dataset, Global 30 Arc-Second Data Set (GTOPO30) and HYDRO1K are the datasets available for download.
Year:	N/A
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://edc.usgs.gov/geodata/

USGS Ortho-Imagery

About:	The purpose of the National Center for Earth Resources Observation & Science (EROS) Othoimagery website is to provide instant access to The National Map Orthoimagery. The Orthoimagery category is one of the framework layers for The National Map. Imagery can be used as a base layer for updating or deriving additional geographic information, such as transportation networks, hydrographic features, elevation, and land cover.
Year:	2000
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://orthoimagery.cr.usgs.gov/website/orthoimagery/

USGS Topographic Maps

About:	The USGS took over responsibility for mapping the country in 1879 and has been the primary civilian mapping agency of the United States ever since. The best known USGS maps are the 1:24,000-scale topographic maps, also known as 7.5-minute quadrangles. More than 55,000 7.5-minute maps were made to cover the 48 conterminous States. This is the only uniform map series that covers the entire area of the United States in considerable detail.
Year:	1879 -1992
Scale:	1:24,000, 1:25,000, 1:63,360 and others
Cost:	COST
Website:	http://topomaps.usgs.gov/

USGS-National Park Service (NPS) Vegetation Mapping Program

About:	The National Park Service/National biological Survey Vegetation Mapping Program for the first time in the history of land management in the United States, this project provides a means to map vast acreage - most National Park System units - using a single vegetation classification and mapping standard. The National Biological Survey is a partner with the National Park Service in this project and is largely responsible for technical oversight of protocols and methodology development as well as technical review and approval of the vegetation maps produced.
Year:	On going project
Scale:	National Parks by State, check site for state availability
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/products/state.html

Water Resources of Nebraska

About:	Links to all of Nebraska�s rivers and streams, including current (�real time�) stream flow, water quality and ground water levels.
Year:	2000 to Present
Scale:	Regional, Local, and National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://ne.water.usgs.gov/index.htm

Water Resources of the United States

About:	Selected water-resources data for approximately 1.5 million sites across the United States from 1857 to present.
Year:	1857 - Present
Scale:	Local to National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://water.usgs.gov/data.html

Wetlands Online Mapper

About:	The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal Federal agency that provides information to the public on the extent and status of the Nations wetlands. Through its National Wetlands Inventory, the agency has developed considerable expertise in mapping wetlands and associated habitats.
Scale:	Lower 48 states � USGS 1:24,000 or 1:100,000 topographic quadrangle, Alaska � USGS 1:63,000 topographic quadrangle, Hawaii � County and USGS topographic quadrangle, Puerto Rico and USVI � County and USGS topographic quadrangle, Pacific Trust Territories � County/Island
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://wetlandsfws.er.usgs.gov/wtlnds/launch.html

Wildland Urban Interface

About:	Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) maps are intended to illustrate where the WUI was located in 2000. Two types of WUI were mapped: intermix and interface. Intermix WUI are areas where housing and vegetation intermingle; interface WUI are areas with housing in the vicinity of contiguous wildland vegetation. In maps of the whole US and the large regions, the WUI is shown in just one color, but in state (or in a few cases, multi-state) maps, different colors were used to show interface and intermix WUI.
Year:	2000
Scale:	Local, Regional and National
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://silvis.forest.wisc.edu/Library/WUILibrary.asp

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WISCLAND)

About:	Geographic Information System technology is used at the DNR to enable timely, efficient, and effective access to information about the state's land, water, and air resources. GIS tools are used to provide spatial data management, collection, analysis, and mapping capabilities to support DNR policy evaluation, decision-making, and program operations.
Year:	1999
Scale:	Wisconsin
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/maps/gis/datalandcover.html

Information Links

Accuracy Assessment of 1992 National Land Cover Data

About:

A National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) for the conterminous U.S. has been compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as part of a cooperative project between the USGS and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The data set is a nationally consistent land cover product derived from the early to mid-1990s Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite imagery. Accuracy assessments of the product have been conducted region-by-region using a scientifically rigorous approach.

Website:

Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI)

About:	In response to indications of worldwide declines in amphibian populations, the President and Congress directed Interior Department agencies to initiate a national program of amphibian monitoring, research, and conservation. As a result, the Agency formed the National Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative.
Website:	http://armi.usgs.gov/

Carbon Cycle Research

About:

The USGS Earth Resources Observation & Science (EROS) is applying its expertise in satellite remote sensing, biogeochemical modeling, analysis of large spatial data sets, and geographic information systems applications to develop a quantitative understanding of the terrestrial carbon cycle. This understanding will be the basis for tools to help policy makers and resource managers evaluate the carbon consequences of land management options, including implications for climate change mitigation strategies.

Website:

http://eros.usgs.gov/carbon_cycle/

Chesapeake Bay Activities

About:

The Chesapeake Bay, the Nation's largest estuary, has been degraded due to water-quality problems, loss of habitat, and over-harvesting of living resources. The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP), a multi-agency partnership which includes the Department of Interior (DOI), completed Chesapeake 2000, a new agreement that revises and establishes restoration goals for the next 10 years in the Bay and its watershed. The following link describes each study ongoing within the Chesapeake Bay.

Website:

http://chesapeake.usgs.gov/studiesproject.html#human

Climate History in Alaska

About:

USGS studies of the Alaskan fossil record of plants include data from many natural exposures and sediment cores. These data provide the basis for reconstructing the record of past vegetation changes over millions of years of Earth history. The fossil record shows that dramatic changes in high latitude vegetation have occurred many times in the past, primarily in response to global climate changes.

Website:

http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/poster/alaskahistory.html

Cropland by County Since 1850 and Population Since 1790

About:	A time series data set of cropland and population proportions has been developed at the county level to provide data on land use conversion and rates of change. The U.S. Bureau of the Census and related agencies inventoried a county cropland series from 1850 to the present.
Website:	http://landcover.usgs.gov/cropland/index.php

Detection and Analysis of Open Space Change in Yavapai and Southern Mohave Counties, Arizona

About:	The main goal of the project was to detect, map, and analyze the amount of change in open space between 1984 and 1997 within the study area and document where these changes have occurred in order to effectively evaluate change in big game habitat. Resulting digital image maps are to be used by the Arizona Game and Fish Department to help in the management of the area's wildlife habitats.
Website:	http://terraweb.wr.usgs.gov/projects/OpenSpaces/

Effects of Land Use on Water Quality in Michigan

About:	Links to projects that provide information on the relation of land use to water quality, sources of pollutants, or trends in water quality.
Website:	http://mi.water.usgs.gov/sieffectwq.php

Global Land Project

About:

Website:

http://landcover.usgs.gov/urban/umap/

Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)

About:	The Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) was established as part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System initiative to process, archive, and distribute land-related data collected by EOS sensors, thereby promoting the inter-disciplinary study and understanding of the integrated Earth system.
Website:	http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/main.asp

Maps On Demand: limited printing of digitally supported U.S. Geological Survey maps and reports

About:	The USGS provides map-on-demand (MOD) printing for selected infrequently requested geologic and other theme map products providing high-quality paper-copy maps as needed. Site links to available map products with thumbnail views and how to order.
Website:	http://store.usgs.gov/mod/

Mojave Desert - Recoverability and Vulnerability of Desert Ecosystems

About:	The Recoverability and Vulnerability of Desert Ecosystems project conducts basic scientific research on ecological processes within the Mojave Desert ecosystem and uses this knowledge to provide land managers with scientific understanding and tools needed to conserve and restore threatened desert landscapes.
Website:	http://mojave.usgs.gov/rvde/

National Land Cover Pattern Maps

About:	Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center website provides three US landcover maps derived from the 2001 NLCD that can be viewed in Google Earth. The maps are: Landcover Mosaic (LCM), Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) of forest cover, and Forest Area Density Analysis (FDEN).
Year:	2001
Scale:	Local, regional and national
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://forestthreats.org/tools/landcover-maps

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

About:	The mission of Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center is to provide the scientific information needed to conserve and manage the nation's biological resources, with an emphasis on the species and ecosystems of the nation's interior.
Website:	http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/index.htm

Ohio State University Extension Land Use Team

About:	The Ohio State University Extension Land Use Team provides information to enable Ohio State University Extension, local and state government, and communities to address land use issues with information, educational programs, and potential strategies.
Website:	http://landuse.osu.edu/

Pacific Northwest Research Station - Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics Team

About:	The Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics Team conducts national, regional, and sub-regional assessments of land use and land cover changes affecting the nation�s forest, grassland, and aquatic ecosystems.
Website:	http://www.fsl.orst.edu/lulcd/

Priority Ecosystems Science

About:	The mission of Priority Ecosystem Science, PES is to provide science in support of adaptive management of ecosystems that have near-term societal concern and significant long-term societal value. Studies are designed to serve local ecosystem management needs and to provide knowledge and approaches transferable to similar ecosystems across the Nation.
Website:	http://access.usgs.gov/index.html

Regional Assessments of Land Use Change in the Delaware River Basin

About:	This long-term U.S. Geological Survey project consists of a number of individual studies applying spatial analysis methods to long-term land-cover change in the Delaware River Basin, particularly in Pennsylvania. The objectives for these projects are to address and quantify predominant affects and outcomes of land-surface change in urbanizing areas.
Website:	http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/de_river_basin/

Regional Vulnerability Assessment (ReVA) Program

About:	EPA's Regional Vulnerability Assessment (ReVA) program is an approach to regional scale, priority-setting assessment being developed by EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD).
Website:	http://www.epa.gov/reva/

San Francisco Bay: Change Detection and Mapping

About:	Use of Landsat Thematic Mapper Multitemporal Images to Detect and Map Changes in the San Francisco Bay Area
Website:	http://terraweb.wr.usgs.gov/TRS/projects/SFBay/

South Florida Information Access � Integrated Science (SOFIA)

About:	South Florida Information Access (SOFIA) is an interdisciplinary service that provides coherent information access in support of research, decision making, and resource management for the South Florida ecosystem restoration effort.
Website:	http://sofia.usgs.gov/

Southwest U.S. Change Detection Images - Reno and Lake Tahoe, Nevada

About:	Landsat images of the Reno-Lake Tahoe area of Nevada, show some effects of natural processes on the landscape, such as burnt area, conifer mortality, forest clear-cutting and dry lake.
Year:	1986 - 1992
Scale:	Regional
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/changes/natural/reno-tahoe/

Temporal Urban Mapping

About:

Temporal urban mapping develops a historical perspective of urban development by combining a variety of data sources into an integrated, multi-scale, and multi-resolution database. The database provides the baseline information to model and predict regional patterns of urbanization. Temporal urban mapping relies on modern mapping techniques, such as remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS), to capture information from both historical and modern records.

Website:

United States/ China Invasive Species Modeling and Monitoring

About:	Biotic invasion between the U.S. and China is a large and growing threat to the economy, ecological integrity, and public health of both nations. Leading researchers have called for more proactive approaches to the invasive species crisis that incorporate prediction, monitoring, and early detection.
Website:	http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/invasive.html

Urban Dynamics

About:	The Urban Dynamics project analyzes land use change in urban environments in order to provide a historical perspective of land use change and an assessment of the spatial patterns, rates, correlation, trends, and impacts of that change. This project develops and refines methods for land use reconstruction, geographic analysis, modeling, prediction, monitoring, and impacts assessment.
Website:	http://landcover.usgs.gov/urban/intro.php

USGS Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative

About:	The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is conducting an Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) Initiative during the fiscal years 1997 through 2001 to provide technical assistance in support of Federal Land Management Agency (FLMA) actions to remediate contamination associated with abandoned hard rock mining activities.
Website:	http://amli.usgs.gov/

USGS International Programs at EROS

About:

Website:

http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/

African Land Cover Data Links

Aquifer Management Services

About:	The objective of the Aquifer project is to support national authorities and international institutions with Earth Observation (EO) based technology to better manage internationally shared water resources and aquifers as well as to strengthen overall and integrated water management practices.
Year:	Variable, typically between 1990 and 2000
Location:	Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria
Website:	http://dup.esrin.esa.int/ionia/projects/summaryp66.asp

African Clearinghouse for Spatial Data (Select On-Line Maps)

About:	The Environmental Monitoring and Information System (EMIS) project is dedicated to facilitating discovery and access of geospatial data and information for Africa.
Year:	1986 - Present
Scale:	Africa
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.geoafrica.net/

Africover

About:	The purpose of the Africover Project is to establish a digital georeferenced database on land cover and a geographic referential for the whole of Africa. Reinforcing national and sub-regional capacities for the establishment, update and use of the geographic referential and land cover maps and spatial databases is the core strategy of Africover.
Year:	1995 - 2002
Scale:	African Countries - Brundi, DR Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda.
Cost:	Free/ On Demand
Website:	http://www.africover.org/system/africover_data.php

ATSR World Fire Atlas

About:	The ATSR World Fire Atlas is the first multi-year Fire Atlas ever developed. It extends from 1995 to present (ERS-2 and ENVISAT). All Hot Spots (including gas flares) with a high temperature at night are precisely located using the 3.7 micron thermal channel.
Year:	November 1995 to Present (processing ongoing)
Location:	Global
Website:	http://dup.esrin.esa.int/ionia/wfa/index.asp

Boston University Land Cover and Land Cover Dynamics Research

About:	We are engaged in a number of land cover and land cover dynamics research activities. The principal activities are developing Land Cover and Land Cover Dynamics products for NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land science team. We also maintain the Confidence Site database for global land cover mapping validation, part of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP).
Scale:	Global
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www-modis.bu.edu/landcover/

Boston University Land Cover and Land Cover Dynamics Research

About:	We are engaged in a number of land cover and land cover dynamics research activities. The principal activities are developing Land Cover and Land Cover Dynamics products for NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land science team. We also maintain the Confidence Site database for global land cover mapping validation, part of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP).
Scale:	Global
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www-modis.bu.edu/landcover/

Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE)

About:	The Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) is a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) initiative aimed at promoting sustainable natural resource management in the Congo Basin. The Congo Basin forest is the second largest contiguous moist tropical forest in the world and plays a key role in securing the livelihoods of Central African citizens.
Year:	1941 - Present
Scale:	Local and Regional
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://maps.geog.umd.edu/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

CLIMSCAT

About:	The products consist in monthly Soil Water Indexes (SWI) derived from the ERS Wind Scatterometer. In addition, SWI difference products are also available, which correspond to the difference of the instantaneous measurement with the 92-00 average value.
Year:	January 1992 to February 2001 (Monthly)
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/radar/index.php?go=ascat

Earth Trends

About:	Earth Trends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
Year:	Historical � present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://earthtrends.wri.org/index.php

EOS - Webster, University of New Hampshire

About:	EOS-WEBSTER provides free, customized Earth Science data. Their data holdings can be searched spatially, temporally, or by keyword, freetext, or collection name.
Scale:	County (USA) to Global
Website:	http://eos-webster.sr.unh.edu/data_guides.jsp

Famine Early Warning System

About:	The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) is an information system designed to identify problems in the food supply system that potentially lead to famine, flood, or other food-insecure conditions, in sub-Saharan Africa.
Year:	Decadal to daily
Scale:	Africa, West African Sahel, East Africa and the Horn, Southern Africa.
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://earlywarning.usgs.gov/adds/index.php

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations

About:	The FAO forestry web site provides pages of information, access to all of FAO�s forest-related databases, detailed country profiles and links to documents on all aspects of forestry. Recent additions include new sites on forest fire, national forest programs and forest reproductive material, among others.
Year:	1990 - 2005
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/webview/forestry2/index.jsp?siteId=5081&sitetreeId=18307&langId=1&geoId=0

GeoCover - Land Cover

About:	The first consistently prepared, moderate-resolution land cover (LC) database. Derived from spectral analysis of consistently orthorectified Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery, GeoCover LC features a standard 13-class land cover legend designed to provide a basic understanding of the landscape.
Year:	1990 - 2000
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Costs Vary
Website:	http://www.mdafederal.com/geocover/geocoverlc

Global Aerosol from Earth Observation (GlobAerosol)

About:	The GlobAEROSOL generates daily global aerosol maps for the period 1995-2007 by merging ATSR-2, AATSR, MERIS and SEVIRI satellite data. The products produced are aerosol optical depths at 0.55 and 0.87um and Angstrom coefficient and estimated speciation.
Year:	1995 - 2007
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.globaerosol.info/project_description/data.htm

Global Burned Forest Mapping (GlobScar)

About:	The products consist in monthly incremental burnt areas maps, derived using remote sensing data from ATSR-2 onboard ERS-2, at a resolution of 1km, during year 2000.
Year:	2000
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.geosuccess.net/geosuccess/relay.do?dispatch=introduction

Global Forest Fragmentation Data

About:	Digital maps in generic raster format derived from Global Land Cover Characterization 1-km land-cover maps (circa 1992) during a recent global survey of forest fragmentation. Each pixel value represents a forest fragmentation category for the surrounding 81 sq km landscape. The maps are directly comparable to the Global Land Cover Characterization maps and are distributed by continent in the GLCC format.
Year:	Global mosaic April 1992 to March 1993
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/4803/landscapes/global-index.html

Global Land 1KM AVHRR Project

About:	The data set is composed of 5 band, 10-bit, raw Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer data, at 1.1-km resolution for every daily afternoon pass over all land and coastal zones using data from NOAA's polar-orbiting TIROS. The NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer land science team concluded that a global land 1-km AVHRR data set is crucial to develop algorithms for several land products for the Earth Observing System (EOS).
Year:	April 1992 to Present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/1KM/

Global Land Cover (GlobCover)

About:	The GlobCover programme develops a service that produces a time series of surface reflectance composites and a land cover classification at global scale for the year 2005/2006. An international network of partners is working with ESA on the project, including EEA, FAO, GOFC-GOLD, IGBP, JRC and UNEP.
Year:	2005 to 2006
Location:	Global
Website:	http://ionia1.esrin.esa.int/

Global Land Cover 2000

About:	The Global Vegetation Monitoring unit of the Joint Research Center has produced a new global land cover classification for the year 2000 (Global Land Cover 2000). The partners all used the hierarchical Land Cover Classification System produced by FAO and UNEP.
Year:	Global mosaic November 1999 � December 2000
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www-gem.jrc.it/glc2000/

Global Land Cover Characterization

About:	The data set is derived from 1-km Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer and is based on a flexible data base structure and seasonal land cover regions concepts. The regions are composed of relatively homogeneous land cover associations which exhibit distinctive phenology, and have common levels of primary production. The data provides 7 land cover land use classification systems.
Year:	Global mosaic - April 1992 to March 1993
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/glcc/

Global Land Cover Facility

About:	The Global Land Cover Facility provides earth science data and products to help everyone better understand global environmental systems. In particular, the GLCF develops and distributes remotely sensed satellite data and products that explain land cover from the local to global scales.
Year:	1972 to present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://glcfapp.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/esdi/index.jsp

Global Land Cover Network

About:	In response to the high demand of natural resource information to meet multi-user requirements, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) have jointly developed the Global Land Cover Network - GLCN initiative.
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Authentication Required
Website:	http://www.glcn.org/

Global Land Products for Carbon Model Assimilation (GlobCarbon)

About:	GLOBCARBON involves the development of a service to generate fully calibrated estimates of land products based on a variety of Earth Observation data, suitable for assimilation into sophisticated software simulations of the planet created by the global carbon modelling community.
Year:	1998 - 2007
Location:	Global
Website:	http://dup.esrin.esa.it/projects/summaryp43.asp

Global Map

About:	The Global Map Data have 8 thematic layers. They are Boundaries, Transportation, Drainage, Population Centers, Elevation, Vegetation, Land use and Land cover. The digital geographic information is in 1 km resolution covering the earth's surface with a standardized specification.
Year:	2000 to present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Registration Required/ Cost
Website:	http://www.iscgm.org/index.html

Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD)

About:	The role of GOFC GOLD is to establish the link between space agencies, science community and the users of earth observation data and data products. The primary function of the Land Cover Implementation Team (LC-IT) is to develop and evaluate methods, tools and products for land cover measurements and monitoring using space-borne and in-situ observations.
Year:	Multiple
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.gofc-gold.uni-jena.de/sites/data/gofc.htm

Global Ocean Colour for Carbon Cycle Research(GlobColour)

About:	One objective of GlobColour is to produce a long time series (10 years) of ocean colour data merged from four satellite data sources: i) the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer Instrument (MERIS) aboard ENVISAT, ii) the Moderate Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) on the Aqua Earth Observing System (EOS) mission, iii)the Sea-viewing Wide Field of view Sensor (SeaWiFS) on board OrbView-2.
Year:	10 years, 1997 to 2006
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.globcolour.info/

Global Terrestrial Ecoregions

About:	Developed by WWF scientists in collaboration with regional experts around the world, the Global Ecoregions is the first comparative analysis of biodiversity to cover every major habitat type, spanning 5 continents and all the world's oceans.
Year:	1999-2000
Scale:	Global
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/maps/index.cfm

GlobWetland

About:	The GlobWetland Project, funded through the European Space Agency's Data User Element (DUE), aims at developing demonstration products based on earth observation to improve the ability of wetland managers to better monitor and assess the condition of wetlands within their respective countries.
Year:	variable depending on the sites
Location:	20 Countries over Africa (9), Europe (9), North America (1) and South America (1)
Website:	http://www.globwetland.org/

GTOPO30 Digital Elevation Model

About:	GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer). GTOPO30 was derived from several raster and vector sources of topographic information. For easier distribution, GTOPO30 has been divided into tiles. Detailed information on the characteristics of GTOPO30 including the data distribution format, the data sources, production methods, accuracy, and hints for users, is found in the GTOPO30 README file.
Year:	1996
Scale:	Global
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/gtopo30/gtopo30.html

GTOPO30 Digital Elevation Model

About:	GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer). GTOPO30 was derived from several raster and vector sources of topographic information. For easier distribution, GTOPO30 has been divided into tiles. Detailed information on the characteristics of GTOPO30 including the data distribution format, the data sources, production methods, accuracy, and hints for users, is found in the GTOPO30 README file.
Year:	1996
Scale:	Global
Website:	http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/gtopo30/gtopo30.html

International Program at the USGS EROS

About:	In 1986, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) established the Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) in an effort to prevent the future occurrence of such a catastrophe. The mission of FEWS was to lower the incidence of drought-induced famine by providing timely and accurate information regarding potential famine conditions to decision makers. In doing so, the ability to address food shortages and other causes of food insecurity before they reach a critical state could be greatly enhanced.
Year:	Current
Scale:	Africa
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/fewsnet.html

Land and Water Development Division

About:	The Land and Water Development Division is concerned with the development of technology, strategy and policy, and the provision of advisory and technical services to FAO Members to ensure a more productive and efficient use of land and water resources and plant nutrients in order to meet present and future food and agriculture demands on a sustainable basis.
Year:	Archival
Scale:	Regional, Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.fao.org/landandwater/agll/landuse/

Land Cover Topic Center

About:	In the Global Land Cover Network framework, FAO and UNEP set up in Rome and in Florence a Land Cover Topic Centre, to provide updated information, technical support, products (LCCS, GEOVIS and MAP software) in the field of land cover mapping.
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Registration Required
Website:	http://www.glcn-lccs.org/

Mathews Global Vegetation and Land Use (Select vegetation)

About:	This site provides access to and describes the Goddard Institute for Space Studies dataset "Global Distribution of Vegetation at 1��1� Resolution", which distinguishes 32 vegetation types. In combination with the Cultivation Intensity dataset, it may be used to calculate land cover across the globe.
Year:	1983
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://data.giss.nasa.gov/landuse/

MODIS Web

About:	The MODIS Data section contains everything from Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents to Product Descriptions to tutorials on ordering MODIS data from the various Distributed Active Archive Centers.
Scale:	National and Global
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)

About:	It is a unique, global, digital elevation model coordinated by a global consortium of scientists and organizations. The Global Land One-Kilometer Base Elevation (GLOBE) digital elevation model (DEM) is a global data set covering 180o West to 180o East longitude and 90o North to 90o South latitude.
Year:	1999
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/segd.shtml

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

About:	The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC) is a NASA sponsored source for biogeochemical and ecological data and models useful in environmental research.
Year:	Various years depending on the project
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/catalog.pl?s

OceanColor Web

About:	Ocean Color promotes the application of remotely-sensed ocean-colour data through coordination, training, liaison between providers and users, advocacy and provision of expert advice. Ocean data from MODIS Aqua and SeaWiFs are available for download from this website.
Scale:	Global
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

About:	NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), based at CIESIN, has gridded nearly 12,000 species distribution maps which were originally in vector format (ESRI shapefile). The original data were developed by a consortium of conservation organizations including NatureServe, IUCN, Conservation International, and World Wildlife Fund-USA. To make these data more useful for modeling and for integration with socioeconomic and other data, SEDAC converted the entire collection of shapefiles to raster format. This newly released Web site provides a search facility for quickly locating and downloading 1-kilometer (30 arc-second) resolution grids of selected species maps in GeoTIFF format. Data are available for global amphibian distributions, and for birds and mammals in the Americas. The Web site provides access to individual species distribution grids, along with family grids that show the density and distribution of species within a given family.
Scale:	1-kilometer (30 arc-second
Website:	http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/species/

South African National Land Cover Database

About:	The '94-'95 South African National Land cover Database is the first standardized land cover database produced for the whole of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho. The data are presented as a series of individual files with the same coverage as the standard 1:250 000 scale Surveyor General national map sheets. The completed land-cover data set is public domain and available at a nominal cost.
Year:	1994 - 1995
Scale:	South Africa, Swaziland, and Lesotho
Cost:	COST
Website:	http://www.csir.co.za/plsql/ptl0002/PTL0002_PGE100_LOOSE_CONTENT?LOOSE_PAGE_NO=7016204

SPOT Vegetation Distribution Site

About:	Provides free access to almost the entire SPOT VEGETATION ten daily global synthesis archive at 1km resolution, with predefined areas of interest in the standard VEGETATION product format.
Year:	Available 3 months after insertion into archive
Scale:	10 predefined global regions of interest
Cost:	Must Register, Free
Website:	http://free.vgt.vito.be/

Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring

About:	The Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring provides a long-term picture of the conditions in ecosystems identified according to the priorities of EU aid, development and international environmental policies: sustainable land management, forest resources and conservation, disturbance by fire and biodiversity losses. Data is available from the local to global scale.
Year:	1982 - present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www-tem.jrc.it//products_complete.htm

UNEP GEO Data Portal

About:	Is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners. The online database holds more than 450 different variables, as national, sub-regional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes such as freshwater, population, forests, emissions, climate, disasters, health and Gross Domestic Product. The data can be displayed and explored on the fly through maps, graphs, and data tables, downloaded in various popular formats.
Year:	2005 to Present
Scale:	National, sub-regional, regional, and global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/index.php

United States Department of Agriculture - Crop Explorer

About:	Provides information on crops and conditions by region, satellite images, live data and maps, with links to production estimates, area, yield, and crop assessments.
Year:	2008
Scale:	Continental
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/index.cfm

World Data Center

About:	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. Its holdings include a wide range of solar, geophysical, environmental, and human dimensions data. These data cover timescales ranging from seconds to millennia and they provide baseline information for research in many ICSU disciplines, especially for monitoring changes in the geosphere and biosphere�gradual or sudden, foreseen or unexpected, natural or man-made.
Year:	Wide Ranging
Scale:	Local, National and Global
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/search.shtml

Information Links

International Charter "Space and Major Disasters"

About:	The International Charter aims at providing a unified system of space data acquisition and delivery to those affected by natural or man-made disasters through Authorized Users. Each member agency has committed resources to support the provisions of the Charter and thus is helping to mitigate the effects of disasters on human life and property.
Website:	http://www.disasterscharter.org/main_e.html

Africa: Political and Shaded Relief Maps, by Country

About:	The following maps were produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, unless otherwise indicated.
Year:	1972 - present
Website:	http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa.html

Carbon Sequestration

About:	The project developed because of development activities at the USGS EROS which clearly defined the important roles that the restoration of soil carbon could play in improving agricultural productivity and sustainability. It was discussed that management intervention could result in enhanced carbon uptake and that this restoration would be associated with increased productivity.
Website:	http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/carbonsequestration.html

Environmental Monitoring and Information System

About:	The project maintains a website, a one-stop shop useful when searching for African spatial information. The site offers a database depicting spatial data inventories from participating agencies, an internet map server, metadata catalogs, descriptions of African clearinghouses, and other tools useful for the data searcher.
Website:	http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/dataportal.html

Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence (GIScCE)

About:

The Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence (GIScCE) is a joint collaboration between South Dakota State University (SDSU) and the United States Geological Survey's National Center for Earth Resources Observation and Sciences (EROS). The purpose of the GIScCE is to enable South Dakota State University faculty and students, and EROS scientists to carry out collaborative research, seek professional development, and implement educational programs in the applications of geographic information science.

Website:

Global Change Research

About:

Website:

Global Interactive View

About:	Comparison of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme Land Cover Classification dataset and global satellite derived imagery. Map allows users to zoom into regions and examine satellite and land cover data side by side.
Website:	http://www-gem.jrc.it/glc2000/interactive/glc2000_vgt.html

Global Land Project

About:

Website:

http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/landcover.html

GOFC-Gold Land Cover Implementation Newsletter

About:	Global Observation for Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC/GOLD) is a coordinated international effort working to provide ongoing space-based and in-situ observations of the land surface for the sustainable management of terrestrial resources and to obtain an accurate, reliable, quantitative understanding of the terrestrial carbon budget.
Website:	http://www.gofc-gold.uni-jena.de/sites/letter.html

Land Cover Performance

About:

The analysis of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data in support of the land cover performance project will ultimately be composed of three phases. The first phase includes a broad investigation of different statistical methods for assessing land performance using the long-term record of coarse resolution (8-km) NDVI imagery. The second phase involves the refinement of these analysis techniques and their application to a finer resolution (1-km) dataset for both Senegal and the Sahel. The third phase will entail the use of these techniques in the analysis of the reprocessed AGRHYMET 1-kilometer NDVI data set.

Website:

Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)

About:	The Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) was established as part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System initiative to process, archive, and distribute land-related data collected by EOS sensors, thereby promoting the inter-disciplinary study and understanding of the integrated Earth system.
Website:	http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/main.asp

Madagascar Convention

About:	International program scientists have supported the USAID/Madagascar mission since March 1994. By providing technical support, training, and data we seek to strengthen the ability of local agencies to better manage the wealth of biodiversity found in Madagascar. Significant results have been obtained through these cooperative efforts.
Website:	http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/madagascar.html

Rift Valley Fever

About:	The overall goal of the project is to explore the possibility of combining commercial, civil and national assets to assess climate, meteorological, environmental and ecological conditions in order to determine if it is possible to predict future Rift Valley Fever (RVF) outbreaks in geographical regions of eastern Africa.
Website:	http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/riftvalleyhome.html

Sahel Land Use

About:

The USGS EROS is working in close collaboration with the AGRHYMET Regional Center in Niamey, Niger, to develop a framework for monitoring, mapping and quantifying changes in natural resources through land use and land cover changes in West Africa. The objective - to characterize land use and land cover trends using historical and current satellite imagery and supporting ground information from three points in time (1965, 1985, and 2000), and to better understand the socioeconomic and biophysical factors driving the trends.

Website:

http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/sahel.html

SEMSOC - Spatially Explicit Modeling of Soil Organic Carbon

About:	Spatially Explicit Modeling of Soil Organic Carbon addresses national concerns by developing integrated project activities with selected national participants. The activities shall address the potential biophysical potential for carbon sequestration and the policy constraints as well as the enabling socio-economic incentives.
Website:	http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/SEMSOC/

Sustainable Tree Crops

About:	The International Program at the USGS EROS responds to the needs of the Sustainable Tree Crops Program (STCP), by supporting pilot projects in West and East Africa. These pilot projects will support the development of the tree growers` organizations to meet the new challenges described above and to facilitate the attainment of competitive standing in the new market strategy of the 21st Century.
Website:	http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/treecropsaf.html

Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring

About:	The Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Action provides a long-term picture of the conditions in ecosystems identified according to the priorities of European Union aid, development and international environmental policies: sustainable land management, forest resources and conservation, disturbance by fire and biodiversity losses.
Website:	http://www-tem.jrc.it/

USGS International Program at EROS

About:

Website:

http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/index.php

Asian Land Cover Data Links

ATSR World Fire Atlas

About:	The ATSR World Fire Atlas is the first multi-year Fire Atlas ever developed. It extends from 1995 to present (ERS-2 and ENVISAT). All Hot Spots (including gas flares) with a high temperature at night are precisely located using the 3.7 micron thermal channel.
Year:	November 1995 to Present (processing ongoing)
Location:	Global
Website:	http://dup.esrin.esa.int/ionia/wfa/index.asp

Boston University Land Cover and Land Cover Dynamics Research

About:	We are engaged in a number of land cover and land cover dynamics research activities. The principal activities are developing Land Cover and Land Cover Dynamics products for NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land science team. We also maintain the Confidence Site database for global land cover mapping validation, part of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP).
Scale:	Global
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www-modis.bu.edu/landcover/

CLIMSCAT

About:	The products consist in monthly Soil Water Indexes (SWI) derived from the ERS Wind Scatterometer. In addition, SWI difference products are also available, which correspond to the difference of the instantaneous measurement with the 92-00 average value.
Year:	January 1992 to February 2001 (Monthly)
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/radar/index.php?go=ascat

Earth Trends

About:	Earth Trends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
Year:	Histroical - Present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://earthtrends.wri.org/index.php

EOS - Webster, University of New Hampshire

About:	EOS-WEBSTER provides free, customized Earth Science data. Their data holdings can be searched spatially, temporally, or by keyword, freetext, or collection name.
Scale:	County (USA) to Global
Website:	http://eos-webster.sr.unh.edu/data_guides.jsp

Famine Early Warning System Afghanistan

About:	The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) is an information system designed to identify problems in the food supply system that potentially lead to famine, flood, or other food-insecure conditions, in sub-Saharan Africa.
Year:	Current
Scale:	Afganistan
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://earlywarning.usgs.gov/afghan/

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations

About:	The FAO forestry web site provides pages of information, access to all of FAO�s forest-related databases, detailed country profiles and links to documents on all aspects of forestry. Recent additions include new sites on forest fire, national forest programs and forest reproductive material, among others.
Year:	1990 - 2005
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/webview/forestry2/index.jsp?siteId=5081&sitetreeId=18307&langId=1&geoId=0

GeoCover - Land Cover

About:	The first consistently prepared, moderate-resolution land cover (LC) database. Derived from spectral analysis of consistently orthorectified Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery, GeoCover LC features a standard 13-class land cover legend designed to provide a basic understanding of the landscape.
Year:	1990 - 2000
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Costs Vary
Website:	http://www.mdafederal.com/geocover/geocoverlc

Global Aerosol from Earth Observation (GlobAerosol)

About:	The GlobAEROSOL generates daily global aerosol maps for the period 1995-2007 by merging ATSR-2, AATSR, MERIS and SEVIRI satellite data. The products produced are aerosol optical depths at 0.55 and 0.87um and Angstrom coefficient and estimated speciation.
Year:	1995 - 2007
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.globaerosol.info/project_description/data.htm

Global Burned Forest Mapping (GlobScar)

About:	The products consist in monthly incremental burnt areas maps, derived using remote sensing data from ATSR-2 onboard ERS-2, at a resolution of 1km, during year 2000.
Year:	2000
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.geosuccess.net/geosuccess/relay.do?dispatch=introduction

Global Forest Fragmentation Data

About:	Digital maps in generic raster format derived from Global Land Cover Characterization 1-km land-cover maps (circa 1992) during a recent global survey of forest fragmentation. Each pixel value represents a forest fragmentation category for the surrounding 81 sq km landscape. The maps are directly comparable to the Global Land Cover Characterization maps and are distributed by continent in the GLCC format.
Year:	Global mosaic April 1992 to March 1993
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/4803/landscapes/global-index.html

Global Land 1KM AVHRR Project

About:	The data set is composed of 5 band, 10-bit, raw Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer data, at 1.1-km resolution for every daily afternoon pass over all land and coastal zones using data from NOAA's polar-orbiting TIROS. The NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer land science team concluded that a global land 1-km AVHRR data set is crucial to develop algorithms for several land products for the Earth Observing System (EOS).
Year:	April 1992 to Present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/1KM/

Global Land Cover (GlobCover)

About:	The GlobCover programme develops a service that produces a time series of surface reflectance composites and a land cover classification at global scale for the year 2005/2006. An international network of partners is working with ESA on the project, including EEA, FAO, GOFC-GOLD, IGBP, JRC and UNEP.
Year:	2005 to 2006
Location:	Global
Website:	http://ionia1.esrin.esa.int/

Global Land Cover 2000

About:	The Global Vegetation Monitoring unit of the Joint Research Center has produced a new global land cover classification for the year 2000 (Global Land Cover 2000). The partners all used the hierarchical Land Cover Classification System produced by FAO and UNEP.
Year:	Global mosaic November 1999 - December 2000
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www-gem.jrc.it/glc2000/

Global Land Cover Characterization

About:	The data set is derived from 1-km Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer and is based on a flexible data base structure and seasonal land cover regions concepts. The regions are composed of relatively homogeneous land cover associations which exhibit distinctive phenology, and have common levels of primary production. The data provides 7 land cover land use classification systems.
Year:	Global mosaic - April 1992 to March 1993
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/glcc/

Global Land Cover Facility

About:	The Global Land Cover Facility provides earth science data and products to help everyone better understand global environmental systems. In particular, the GLCF develops and distributes remotely sensed satellite data and products that explain land cover from the local to global scales.
Year:	1972 to present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://glcfapp.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/esdi/index.jsp

Global Land Cover Network

About:	In response to the high demand of natural resource information to meet multi-user requirements, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) have jointly developed the Global Land Cover Network - GLCN initiative.
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Authentication Required
Website:	http://www.glcn.org/

Global Land Products for Carbon Model Assimilation (GlobCarbon)

About:	GLOBCARBON involves the development of a service to generate fully calibrated estimates of land products based on a variety of Earth Observation data, suitable for assimilation into sophisticated software simulations of the planet created by the global carbon modelling community.
Year:	1998 - 2007
Location:	Global
Website:	http://dup.esrin.esa.it/projects/summaryp43.asp

Global Map

About:	The Global Map Data have 8 thematic layers. They are Boundaries, Transportation, Drainage, Population Centers, Elevation, Vegetation, Land use and Land cover. The digital geographic information is in 1 km resolution covering the earth's surface with a standardized specification.
Year:	2000 to present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Registration Required/ Cost
Website:	http://www.iscgm.org/index.html

Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD)

About:	The role of GOFC GOLD is to establish the link between space agencies, science community and the users of earth observation data and data products. The primary function of the Land Cover Implementation Team (LC-IT) is to develop and evaluate methods, tools and products for land cover measurements and monitoring using space-borne and in-situ observations.
Year:	Multiple
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.gofc-gold.uni-jena.de/sites/data/gofc.htm

Global Ocean Colour for Carbon Cycle Research(GlobColour)

About:	One objective of GlobColour is to produce a long time series (10 years) of ocean colour data merged from four satellite data sources: i) the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer Instrument (MERIS) aboard ENVISAT, ii) the Moderate Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) on the Aqua Earth Observing System (EOS) mission, iii)the Sea-viewing Wide Field of view Sensor (SeaWiFS) on board OrbView-2.
Year:	10 years, 1997 to 2006
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.globcolour.info/

Global Terrestrial Ecoregions

About:	Developed by WWF scientists in collaboration with regional experts around the world, the Global Ecoregions is the first comparative analysis of biodiversity to cover every major habitat type, spanning 5 continents and all the world's oceans.
Year:	1999-2000
Scale:	Global
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/maps/index.cfm

GTOPO30 Digital Elevation Model

About:	GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer). GTOPO30 was derived from several raster and vector sources of topographic information. For easier distribution, GTOPO30 has been divided into tiles. Detailed information on the characteristics of GTOPO30 including the data distribution format, the data sources, production methods, accuracy, and hints for users, is found in the GTOPO30 README file.
Year:	1996
Scale:	Global
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/gtopo30/gtopo30.html

INNOVATOR User Partnership - Expeditions

About:	In support of several Arctic expeditions, the following products were provided : Near Real Time updates of ENVISAT ASAR data using Global Mode, Wide Swath, Image Mode and Alternating Polarisation Mode. Optional overlays including: Ice motion, Leads (openings in the ice pack) and thin ice (sea ice, only a few centimeters thick), New ice information. Secondly, to support a K2 mountain expedition, a K2 mountain product was generated using a high resolution Digital Elevation Model (30m) prepared specifically from SAR data. It was draped with SPOT data and a �fly-past� movie was generated along with visualisations from various angles.
Year:	2006, 2007
Scale:	Daily
Location:	Arctic regions, Himalaya
Website:	https://dup.esrin.esa.int/ionia/expeditions/products.asp

Land and Water Development Division

About:	The Land and Water Development Division is concerned with the development of technology, strategy and policy, and the provision of advisory and technical services to FAO Members to ensure a more productive and efficient use of land and water resources and plant nutrients in order to meet present and future food and agriculture demands on a sustainable basis.
Year:	Archival
Scale:	Regional, Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.fao.org/landandwater/agll/landuse/

Land Cover Topic Center

About:	In the Global Land Cover Network framework, FAO and UNEP set up in Rome and in Florence a Land Cover Topic Centre, to provide updated information, technical support, products (LCCS, GEOVIS and MAP software) in the field of land cover mapping.
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Registration Required
Website:	http://www.glcn-lccs.org/

Mathews Global Vegetation and Land Use (Select vegetation)

About:	This site provides access to and describes the Goddard Institute for Space Studies dataset "Global Distribution of Vegetation at 1��1� Resolution", which distinguishes 32 vegetation types. In combination with the Cultivation Intensity dataset, it may be used to calculate land cover across the globe.
Year:	1983
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://data.giss.nasa.gov/landuse/

MODIS Web

About:	The MODIS Data section contains everything from Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents to Product Descriptions to tutorials on ordering MODIS data from the various Distributed Active Archive Centers.
Scale:	National and Global
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)

About:	It is a unique, global, digital elevation model coordinated by a global consortium of scientists and organizations. The Global Land One-Kilometer Base Elevation (GLOBE) digital elevation model (DEM) is a global data set covering 180o West to 180o East longitude and 90o North to 90o South latitude.
Year:	1999
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/segd.shtml

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

About:	The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC) is a NASA sponsored source for biogeochemical and ecological data and models useful in environmental research.
Year:	Various years depending on the project
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/catalog.pl?s

OceanColor Web

About:	Ocean Color promotes the application of remotely-sensed ocean-colour data through coordination, training, liaison between providers and users, advocacy and provision of expert advice. Ocean data from MODIS Aqua and SeaWiFs are available for download from this website.
Scale:	Global
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

About:	NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), based at CIESIN, has gridded nearly 12,000 species distribution maps which were originally in vector format (ESRI shapefile). The original data were developed by a consortium of conservation organizations including NatureServe, IUCN, Conservation International, and World Wildlife Fund-USA. To make these data more useful for modeling and for integration with socioeconomic and other data, SEDAC converted the entire collection of shapefiles to raster format. This newly released Web site provides a search facility for quickly locating and downloading 1-kilometer (30 arc-second) resolution grids of selected species maps in GeoTIFF format. Data are available for global amphibian distributions, and for birds and mammals in the Americas. The Web site provides access to individual species distribution grids, along with family grids that show the density and distribution of species within a given family.
Scale:	1-kilometer (30 arc-second)
Website:	http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/species/

SPOT Vegetation Distribution Site

About:	Provides free access to almost the entire SPOT VEGETATION ten daily global synthesis archive at 1km resolution, with predefined areas of interest in the standard VEGETATION product format.
Year:	Available 3 months after insertion into archive
Scale:	10 predefined global regions of interest
Cost:	Must Register, Free
Website:	http://free.vgt.vito.be/

TerraNorte

About:	TerraNorte contains a number of advanced datasets and products derived from Earth Observation techniques, regarding land cover dynamics, natural and human induced ecosystem disturbances and agricultural activity, which grow on both thematic domains and geographical coverage.
Year:	1984 to present
Scale:	Boreal Region - Russia
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://terranorte.iki.rssi.ru/

Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring

About:	The Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring provides a long-term picture of the conditions in ecosystems identified according to the priorities of EU aid, development and international environmental policies: sustainable land management, forest resources and conservation, disturbance by fire and biodiversity losses. Data is available from the local to global scale.
Year:	1982 - present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www-tem.jrc.it//products_complete.htm

The Australian Consortium for the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network (ACASIAN)

About:	The Australian Consortium for the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network (ACASIAN) is an academic and applied research activity specializing in Geographical Information System (GIS) databases for Asia (China in particular) and the former Soviet Union. In its original manifestation, ACASIAN fulfilled Griffith University's leading role in the SIIASA and SIIRCEASA consortia, and Griffith University continues to licence its spatial datasets, and those Crissman has subsequently produced, for academic, research, and commercial purposes.
Year:	N/A
Scale:	Eurasia, East Asia, South East Asia, South Asia and Near East
Cost:	COSTS
Website:	http://www.asian.gu.edu.au/index.html

Tropical Rain Forest Information Center

About:	The Tropical Rain Forest Information Center (TRFIC) is part of NASA's Federation of Earth Science Information Partners. The objective of the Federation is to experiment with and evolve processes to make Earth system science data easy to preserve, locate, access and use for all beneficial applications, including research, education, and commercial, many of which may cross the Federation membership.
Scale:	Asia
Website:	http://www.trfic.msu.edu/

UNEP GEO Data Portal

About:	Is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners. The online database holds more than 450 different variables, as national, sub-regional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes such as freshwater, population, forests, emissions, climate, disasters, health and Gross Domestic Product. The data can be displayed and explored on the fly through maps, graphs, and data tables, downloaded in various popular formats.
Year:	2005 to Present
Scale:	National, sub-regional, regional, and global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/index.php

United States Department of Agriculture - Crop Explorer

About:	Provides information on crops and conditions by region, satellite images, live data and maps, with links to production estimates, area, yield, and crop assessments.
Year:	2008
Scale:	Continental
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/index.cfm

World Data Center

About:	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. Its holdings include a wide range of solar, geophysical, environmental, and human dimensions data. These data cover timescales ranging from seconds to millennia and they provide baseline information for research in many ICSU disciplines, especially for monitoring changes in the geosphere and biosphere�gradual or sudden, foreseen or unexpected, natural or man-made.
Year:	Wide Ranging
Scale:	Local, Regional and Global
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/search.shtml

Information Links

Africa: Political and Shaded Relief Maps, by Country

About:	The following maps were produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, unless otherwise indicated.
Year:	1984 - present
Website:	http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/asia.html

Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

About:	The Asia Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is an intergovernmental network for the promotion of global change research and links between science and policy making in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Website:	http://www.apn-gcr.org/en/indexe.html

AsiaCover

About:	AsiaCover Project is to integrate this source of land cover data with socio-economic information to serve as a decision aid for environmental sound decision-making.
Website:	http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0301a_en.htm

Carbon Sequestration

About:	The project developed because of development activities at the USGS EROS which clearly defined the important roles that the restoration of soil carbon could play in improving agricultural productivity and sustainability. It was discussed that management intervention could result in enhanced carbon uptake and that this restoration would be associated with increased productivity.
Website:	http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/carbonsequestration.html

Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence (GIScCE)

About:

Website:

Global Change Research

About:

Website:

Global Interactive View

About:	Comparison of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme Land Cover Classification dataset and global satellite derived imagery. Map allows users to zoom into regions and examine satellite and land cover data side by side.
Website:	http://www-gem.jrc.it/glc2000/interactive/glc2000_vgt.html

Global Land Project

About:

Website:

GOFC-Gold Land Cover Implementation Newsletter

About:	Global Observation for Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC/GOLD) is a coordinated international effort working to provide ongoing space-based and in-situ observations of the land surface for the sustainable management of terrestrial resources and to obtain an accurate, reliable, quantitative understanding of the terrestrial carbon budget.
Website:	http://www.gofc-gold.uni-jena.de/sites/letter.html

Indian Institute of Remote Sensing

About:	The Indian Institute of Remote Sensing vision is to promote excellence and professional education in the field of Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science.
Website:	http://www.iirs-nrsa.gov.in/

International Charter "Space and Major Disasters"

About:	The International Charter aims at providing a unified system of space data acquisition and delivery to those affected by natural or man-made disasters through Authorized Users. Each member agency has committed resources to support the provisions of the Charter and thus is helping to mitigate the effects of disasters on human life and property.
Website:	http://www.disasterscharter.org/main_e.html

Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)

About:	The Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) was established as part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System initiative to process, archive, and distribute land-related data collected by EOS sensors, thereby promoting the inter-disciplinary study and understanding of the integrated Earth system.
Website:	http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/main.asp

Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative

About:	The Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative, (NEESPI), is a currently active, yet strategically evolving program of internationally-supported Earth systems science research, which has as its foci issues in northern Eurasia that are relevant to regional and Global scientific and decision-making communities
Website:	http://neespi.org/

Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring

About:	The Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Action provides a long-term picture of the conditions in ecosystems identified according to the priorities of European Union aid, development and international environmental policies: sustainable land management, forest resources and conservation, disturbance by fire and biodiversity losses.
Website:	http://www-tem.jrc.it/

USGS International Program at EROS

About:

Website:

http://viso.ei.jrc.it/watersheds/index.cfm

European Land Cover Data Links

ATSR World Fire Atlas

About:	The ATSR World Fire Atlas is the first multi-year Fire Atlas ever developed. It extends from 1995 to present (ERS-2 and ENVISAT). All Hot Spots (including gas flares) with a high temperature at night are precisely located using the 3.7 micron thermal channel.
Year:	November 1995 to Present (processing ongoing)
Location:	Global
Website:	http://dup.esrin.esa.int/ionia/wfa/index.asp

BALANS Land Cover

About:	This Baltic Sea Region GIS, map and statistical database is a result of the Baltic Drainage Basin Project (BDBP). The BDBP was a multi-disciplinary research project under the EU 1991-1994 Environment Research Programme. The Land Cover data layer consists of six classes: Forest, Open Land, Open Water, Urban Land, Glacier, and Unknown Land, which is either Forest or Open Land.
Year:	1997 - 2000
Scale:	Baltic Sea Region
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.grida.no/baltic/htmls/related.htm

Boston University Land Cover and Land Cover Dynamics Research

About:	We are engaged in a number of land cover and land cover dynamics research activities. The principal activities are developing Land Cover and Land Cover Dynamics products for NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land science team. We also maintain the Confidence Site database for global land cover mapping validation, part of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP).
Scale:	Global
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://www-modis.bu.edu/landcover/

Burned Area Land use change detection

About:	The BALU products provide information on land cover and land cover change over previously burnt areas, for 3 provinces of Italy: Torino, Foggia, Lucca. The products legend is based on CORINE. You can request the products via FTP from the Planetek website, please contact Planetek for more information.
Year:	Base year is 1998. The BALU products cover the period 1999 to 2002
Location:	Italy
Website:	http://dup.esrin.esa.int/ionia/projects/summaryp34.asp

CARTO-CHANGE - INNOVATOR User Partnership

About:	CARTOSTAT is a service for making land cover maps comparable that aims to increase the cartographical and statistical comparability of existing LC/LU maps.
Year:	CLC (1990 and 2000) and GlobCover (2005)
Location:	Denmark, Mid Europe, Spain, Portugal and Austria
Website:	http://dup.esrin.esa.int/ionia/projects/summaryp83.asp

CLIMSCAT

About:	The products consist in monthly Soil Water Indexes (SWI) derived from the ERS Wind Scatterometer. In addition, SWI difference products are also available, which correspond to the difference of the instantaneous measurement with the 92-00 average value.
Year:	January 1992 to February 2001 (Monthly)
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/radar/index.php?go=ascat

Corine Land Cover 1990

About:	The Corine land cover database provides a pan-European inventory of biophysical land cover, using a 44-class nomenclature. It is made available on a 250m by 250m grid database, which has been aggregated from the original vector data at 1:100 000. Corine land cover is a key database for integrated environmental assessment.
Year:	1990
Scale:	European
Cost:	Permission Required
Website:	http://themes.eea.europa.eu/Environmental_issues/natural/data

Corine Land Cover 2000

About:	Corine land cover 2000 (CLC2000) is an update for the reference year 2000 of the first CLC database which was finalized in the early 1990s as part of the European Commission programme to COoRdinate INformation on the Environment (Corine). It provides consistent information on land cover and land cover changes during the past decade across Europe. At present, the Corine land cover database covers 30 countries and is expected to expand its geographical coverage by the end of 2005.
Year:	1999 - 2001
Scale:	European
Cost:	Permission Required
Website:	http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=667

Digital Elevation Models based on ERS SAR and STRM (DUDES)

About:	The objective of the DUDES project is to produce a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) over a large European area (minimum 300,000 km2) using the X-SAR data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and the SAR tandem data from the ESA ERS missions (ERS-1 and ERS-2). The area will cover three countries from the ESA Member States. DUDES aims at demonstrating the possibility to produce high quality spaceborne derived DEMs over large areas.
Year:	1996, 2000
Location:	Italy, Switzerland
Website:	http://www.eurimage.com/dudes/

Earth Trends

About:	Earth Trends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
Year:	Historical � Present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://earthtrends.wri.org/index.php

EOS - Webster, University of New Hampshire

About:	EOS-WEBSTER provides free, customized Earth Science data. Their data holdings can be searched spatially, temporally, or by keyword, freetext, or collection name.
Scale:	County (USA) to Global
Website:	http://eos-webster.sr.unh.edu/data_guides.jsp

European Forest Institute

About:	The main aim of the project targets at utilizing most effectively both Earth Observation data and forest statistical information. It applies a previously developed calibration method to produce comprehensive and complete European maps on forest (and within the forest class the sub-classes coniferous and broadleaved) and non-forest/water at 1 x 1 kilometer resolution.
Year:	2000 - 2001
Scale:	Europe
Cost:	Registration required
Website:	http://www2.efi.fi/projects/euromap/phase2/register.php

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations

About:	The FAO forestry web site provides pages of information, access to all of FAO�s forest-related databases, detailed country profiles and links to documents on all aspects of forestry. Recent additions include new sites on forest fire, national forest programs and forest reproductive material, among others.
Year:	1990 - 2005
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/webview/forestry2/index.jsp?siteId=5081&sitetreeId=18307&langId=1&geoId=0

GeoCover - Land Cover

About:	The first consistently prepared, moderate-resolution land cover (LC) database. Derived from spectral analysis of consistently orthorectified Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery, GeoCover LC features a standard 13-class land cover legend designed to provide a basic understanding of the landscape.
Year:	1990 - 2000
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Costs Vary
Website:	http://www.mdafederal.com/geocover/geocoverlc

Global Aerosol from Earth Observation (GlobAerosol)

About:	The GlobAEROSOL generates daily global aerosol maps for the period 1995-2007 by merging ATSR-2, AATSR, MERIS and SEVIRI satellite data. The products produced are aerosol optical depths at 0.55 and 0.87um and Angstrom coefficient and estimated speciation.
Year:	1995 - 2007
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.globaerosol.info/project_description/data.htm

Global Burned Forest Mapping (GlobScar)

About:	The products consist in monthly incremental burnt areas maps, derived using remote sensing data from ATSR-2 onboard ERS-2, at a resolution of 1km, during year 2000.
Year:	2000
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.geosuccess.net/geosuccess/relay.do?dispatch=introduction

Global Forest Fragmentation Data

About:	Digital maps in generic raster format derived from Global Land Cover Characterization 1-km land-cover maps (circa 1992) during a recent global survey of forest fragmentation. Each pixel value represents a forest fragmentation category for the surrounding 81 sq km landscape. The maps are directly comparable to the Global Land Cover Characterization maps and are distributed by continent in the GLCC format.
Year:	Global mosaic April 1992 to March 1993
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/4803/landscapes/global-index.html

Global Land 1KM AVHRR Project

About:	The data set is composed of 5 band, 10-bit, raw Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer data, at 1.1-km resolution for every daily afternoon pass over all land and coastal zones using data from NOAA's polar-orbiting TIROS. The NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer land science team concluded that a global land 1-km AVHRR data set is crucial to develop algorithms for several land products for the Earth Observing System (EOS).
Year:	April 1992 to Present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/1KM/

Global Land Cover (GlobCover)

About:	The GlobCover programme develops a service that produces a time series of surface reflectance composites and a land cover classification at global scale for the year 2005/2006. An international network of partners is working with ESA on the project, including EEA, FAO, GOFC-GOLD, IGBP, JRC and UNEP.
Year:	2005 to 2006
Location:	Global
Website:	http://ionia1.esrin.esa.int/

Global Land Cover 2000

About:	The Global Vegetation Monitoring unit of the Joint Research Center has produced a new global land cover classification for the year 2000 (Global Land Cover 2000). The partners all used the hierarchical Land Cover Classification System produced by FAO and UNEP.
Year:	Global mosaic November 1999 - December 2000
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www-gem.jrc.it/glc2000/

Global Land Cover Characterization

About:	The data set is derived from 1-km Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer and is based on a flexible data base structure and seasonal land cover regions concepts. The regions are composed of relatively homogeneous land cover associations which exhibit distinctive phenology, and have common levels of primary production. The data provides 7 land cover land use classification systems.
Year:	Global mosaic - April 1992 to March 1993
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/glcc/

Global Land Cover Facility

About:	The Global Land Cover Facility provides earth science data and products to help everyone better understand global environmental systems. In particular, the GLCF develops and distributes remotely sensed satellite data and products that explain land cover from the local to global scales.
Year:	1972 to present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://glcfapp.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/esdi/index.jsp

Global Land Cover Network

About:	In response to the high demand of natural resource information to meet multi-user requirements, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) have jointly developed the Global Land Cover Network - GLCN initiative.
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Authentication Required
Website:	http://www.glcn.org/

Global Land Products for Carbon Model Assimilation (GlobCarbon)

About:	GLOBCARBON involves the development of a service to generate fully calibrated estimates of land products based on a variety of Earth Observation data, suitable for assimilation into sophisticated software simulations of the planet created by the global carbon modelling community.
Year:	1998 - 2007
Location:	Global
Website:	http://dup.esrin.esa.it/projects/summaryp43.asp

Global Map

About:	The Global Map Data have 8 thematic layers. They are Boundaries, Transportation, Drainage, Population Centers, Elevation, Vegetation, Land use and Land cover. The digital geographic information is in 1 km resolution covering the earth's surface with a standardized specification.
Year:	2000 to present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Registration Required/ Cost
Website:	http://www.iscgm.org/index.html

Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD)

About:	The role of GOFC GOLD is to establish the link between space agencies, science community and the users of earth observation data and data products. The primary function of the Land Cover Implementation Team (LC-IT) is to develop and evaluate methods, tools and products for land cover measurements and monitoring using space-borne and in-situ observations.
Year:	Multiple
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.gofc-gold.uni-jena.de/sites/data/gofc.htm

Global Ocean Colour for Carbon Cycle Research(GlobColour)

About:	One objective of GlobColour is to produce a long time series (10 years) of ocean colour data merged from four satellite data sources: i) the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer Instrument (MERIS) aboard ENVISAT, ii) the Moderate Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) on the Aqua Earth Observing System (EOS) mission, iii)the Sea-viewing Wide Field of view Sensor (SeaWiFS) on board OrbView-2.
Year:	10 years, 1997 to 2006
Location:	Global
Website:	http://www.globcolour.info/

Global Terrestrial Ecoregions

About:	Developed by WWF scientists in collaboration with regional experts around the world, the Global Ecoregions is the first comparative analysis of biodiversity to cover every major habitat type, spanning 5 continents and all the world's oceans.
Year:	1999-2000
Scale:	Global
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/maps/index.cfm

GlobWetland

About:	The GlobWetland Project, funded through the European Space Agency's Data User Element (DUE), aims at developing demonstration products based on earth observation to improve the ability of wetland managers to better monitor and assess the condition of wetlands within their respective countries.
Year:	variable depending on the sites
Location:	20 Countries over Africa (9), Europe (9), North America (1) and South America (1)
Website:	http://www.globwetland.org/

GTOPO30 Digital Elevation Model

About:	GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer). GTOPO30 was derived from several raster and vector sources of topographic information. For easier distribution, GTOPO30 has been divided into tiles. Detailed information on the characteristics of GTOPO30 including the data distribution format, the data sources, production methods, accuracy, and hints for users, is found in the GTOPO30 README file.
Year:	1996
Scale:	Global
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/gtopo30/gtopo30.html

KYOTO INVENTORY

About:	The KYOTO-INVENTORY products consist in land use maps and forest maps for 3 years of reference (typically 1989-90, 1986-87 and 2001-02) as well as land use change maps over those reference periods. The years of reference and legends vary slightly with the countries but the classes of interest used are in line with the Kyoto Protocol reporting. The products are derived from optical data.
Year:	1989 - 90 to 2001 - 2002
Location:	Spain, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands
Website:	http://kyoto-inv.pisa.intecs.it/summary.jsp?f=psd

Land and Water Development Division

About:	The Land and Water Development Division is concerned with the development of technology, strategy and policy, and the provision of advisory and technical services to FAO Members to ensure a more productive and efficient use of land and water resources and plant nutrients in order to meet present and future food and agriculture demands on a sustainable basis.
Year:	Archival
Scale:	Regional, Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.fao.org/landandwater/agll/landuse/

Land Cover Map 2000 (LCM2000)

About:	Land Cover Map 2000 (LCM2000) is used by Government Departments and Agencies in England, Scotland and Wales; County Councils; Charities and Commissions and also Environmental management bodies. LCM2000 is used for a wide range of applications including environmental character assessments, environmental protection, transport planning, animal disease distribution, bird and habitat relationships and forestry research. Like the earlier Land Cover Map of GB (1990), LCM2000 is derived from a computer classification of satellite scenes, obtained mainly from Landsat satellites. LCM2000 covers Northern Ireland, so will produce an all-UK dataset for the first time. It also incorporates information derived from other datasets
Year:	1997 - 1998
Scale:	national
Cost:	COST
Website:	http://www.ceh.ac.uk/sections/seo/lcm2000_home.html

Land Cover Map of Great Britain (LCMGB)

About:	The LCMGB recorded 25 land cover types, on a 25 m grid, for all of Britain. The generalised census, as a part of the Countryside Survey 1990, complemented the sample-based detail of the field survey. The LCMGB and the field data were compared and contrasted qualitatively and quantitatively, giving correspondences which varied from 50%-90% and suggested that the map accuracy was generally 80%-85% - an exact quantification was precluded by crucial differences in the dates of survey and the choices of class definitions. The LCMGB data give complete, though generalised, national coverage and are uniquely capable of generating useful information at a field-by-field level.
Year:	1990 - 1992
Scale:	National
Cost:	COSTS
Website:	http://www.ceh.ac.uk/sections/seo/lcm1990.html

Land Cover Topic Center

About:	In the Global Land Cover Network framework, FAO and UNEP set up in Rome and in Florence a Land Cover Topic Centre, to provide updated information, technical support, products (LCCS, GEOVIS and MAP software) in the field of land cover mapping.
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Registration Required
Website:	http://www.glcn-lccs.org/

LandMap United Kingdom

About:	The Joint Information Systems Committee funded Landmap Project is a joint project between Manchester InforMation and Associate Services and University College London Dept. of Geomatic Engineering and other project partners. The project provides orthorectified satellite image mosaics of Landsat, SPOT and ERS radar data and a high resolution Digital Elevation Model for the British Isles. This data is available in formats that are readily accessible to users of Geographic Information Systems, Image Processing and Desktop publishing software.
Year:	1988 - 2005
Scale:	British Isles
Cost:	Nominal cost to noncollobarators
Website:	http://www.landmap.ac.uk/data/index.html

Landslide Inventory Maps

About:	The Landslide Inventory Maps are meant to delineate and characterise, within a large Area Of Interest (typically a river basin), the areas affected by slope motion. The LIM products are the result of the integration of point-wise displacement observations (derived from PS measurements) into traditional geo-morphological analysis. They provide the location of the movement, the extent and contour of landslide prone areas, and an approximate estimation of the displacement velocity (mm/year).
Year:	Between 1992 and 2000
Location:	Italy, Switzerland
Website:	http://www.slamservice.info/

Mathews Global Vegetation and Land Use (Select vegetation)

About:	This site provides access to and describes the Goddard Institute for Space Studies dataset "Global Distribution of Vegetation at 1��1� Resolution", which distinguishes 32 vegetation types. In combination with the Cultivation Intensity dataset, it may be used to calculate land cover across the globe.
Year:	1983
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://data.giss.nasa.gov/landuse/

MEDSPIRATION

About:	The products consist of a daily high resolution Sea Surface Temperature over the Mediteranean Sea (30N to 46N and 6W to 36.5E at 2 km spatial resolution) in Netcdf format and compressed to a bzip2 file derived from the combination of in-situ data with various satellites.
Year:	From the 23rd November, 2004 to present
Location:	Countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea
Website:	http://www.medspiration.org/

MODIS Web

About:	The MODIS Data section contains everything from Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents to Product Descriptions to tutorials on ordering MODIS data from the various Distributed Active Archive Centers.
Scale:	National and Global
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside (MAGIC)

About:	MAGIC is the first web-based interactive map to bring together information on key environmental schemes and designations in one place. MAGIC is a partnership project involving six government organisations who have responsibilities for rural policy-making and management, and although it has been designed to meet the needs of the partner organisations, the facility is available to anyone over the Internet.
Year:	N/A
Scale:	Regional and National
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.nlud.org.uk/draft_one/results/results_index.htm

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)

About:	It is a unique, global, digital elevation model coordinated by a global consortium of scientists and organizations. The Global Land One-Kilometer Base Elevation (GLOBE) digital elevation model (DEM) is a global data set covering 180o West to 180o East longitude and 90o North to 90o South latitude.
Year:	1999
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/segd.shtml

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

About:	The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC) is a NASA sponsored source for biogeochemical and ecological data and models useful in environmental research.
Year:	Various years depending on the project
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/catalog.pl?s

OceanColor Web

About:	Ocean Color promotes the application of remotely-sensed ocean-colour data through coordination, training, liaison between providers and users, advocacy and provision of expert advice. Ocean data from MODIS Aqua and SeaWiFs are available for download from this website.
Scale:	Global
Cost:	No Charge
Website:	http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe � socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity, and future scenarios

About:	The goal of this project is to monitor in land use and land cover change before and after the breakdown of the USSR in 1990 for all of Eastern Europe, identify socioeconomic drivers of these changes, and assess effects on habitat availability for umbrella species for biodiversity.
Year:	1985 - 2002
Scale:	Regional
Cost:	N/A
Website:	http://silvis.forest.wisc.edu/projects/ussr.asp

Regional Burned Forest Mapping in Italy (ITALSCAR)

About:	The ITALSCAR dataset provides burn scars over Italy detected from LANDSAT data. The dataset is organized on a yearly basis from 1997 to 2000. In addition to the ITALSCAR products, several background layers are proposed for visualization.
Year:	1997 - 2002
Location:	Italy
Website:	http://dup.esrin.esa.it/projects/summaryp23.asp

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

About:	NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), based at CIESIN, has gridded nearly 12,000 species distribution maps which were originally in vector format (ESRI shapefile). The original data were developed by a consortium of conservation organizations including NatureServe, IUCN, Conservation International, and World Wildlife Fund-USA. To make these data more useful for modeling and for integration with socioeconomic and other data, SEDAC converted the entire collection of shapefiles to raster format. This newly released Web site provides a search facility for quickly locating and downloading 1-kilometer (30 arc-second) resolution grids of selected species maps in GeoTIFF format. Data are available for global amphibian distributions, and for birds and mammals in the Americas. The Web site provides access to individual species distribution grids, along with family grids that show the density and distribution of species within a given family.
Scale:	1-kilometer (30 arc-second)
Website:	http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/species/

SPOT Vegetation Distribution Site

About:	Provides free access to almost the entire SPOT VEGETATION ten daily global synthesis archive at 1km resolution, with predefined areas of interest in the standard VEGETATION product format.
Year:	Available 3 months after insertion into archive
Scale:	10 predefined global regions of interest
Cost:	Must Register, Free
Website:	http://free.vgt.vito.be/

Stockholm Environment Institute Land Cover Map of Europe

About:	Stockholm Environment Institute is pleased to announce the release of their Land Cover Map of Europe. This map is the product of 4 years work and is being used as a base-map for air pollution mapping. There is, at present, no other land cover map covering this extent of Europe and will replace the current land cover datasets used by European-scale air pollution mapping projects.
Year:	Range of source data
Scale:	Europe and Eastern Russia
Cost:	Nominal Cost to noncollabrators
Website:	http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/sei/gis/land-use.html

Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring

About:	The Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring provides a long-term picture of the conditions in ecosystems identified according to the priorities of EU aid, development and international environmental policies: sustainable land management, forest resources and conservation, disturbance by fire and biodiversity losses. Data is available from the local to global scale.
Year:	1982 - present
Scale:	Global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www-tem.jrc.it//products_complete.htm

UNEP GEO Data Portal

About:	Is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners. The online database holds more than 450 different variables, as national, sub-regional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes such as freshwater, population, forests, emissions, climate, disasters, health and Gross Domestic Product. The data can be displayed and explored on the fly through maps, graphs, and data tables, downloaded in various popular formats.
Year:	2005 to Present
Scale:	National, sub-regional, regional, and global
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/index.php

United States Department of Agriculture - Crop Explorer

About:	Provides information on crops and conditions by region, satellite images, live data and maps, with links to production estimates, area, yield, and crop assessments.
Year:	2008
Scale:	Continental
Cost:	Free
Website:	http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/index.cfm

World Data Center

About:	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. Its holdings include a wide range of solar, geophysical, environmental, and human dimensions data. These data cover timescales ranging from seconds to millennia and they provide baseline information for research in many ICSU disciplines, especially for monitoring changes in the geosphere and biosphere�gradual or sudden, foreseen or unexpected, natural or man-made.
Year:	Wide Ranging
Scale:	Local, National and Global
Cost:	FREE
Website:	http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/search.shtml

Information Links

Agric-Environmental Action

About:	The Agri-Environmental Action is managed by the Rural, Water and Ecosystem Resources Unit of the JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability. The site highlights the most important future challenges towards sustainable agriculture and sustainable development in the European Union.
Website:	http://agrienv.jrc.it/activities/landcover/

Catalogue of European Watersheds

About:

This catalogue of existing well monitored river-basins across Europe covering a wide range of environmental conditions is the result of a questionnaire which was sent out to representative bodies in Europe with the aim to obtain an idea of the number of watersheds presently being studied in Europe, their characteristics and environmental problems being investigated, and the information available. This site is a searchable database.

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Climatewire

About:	ClimateWire.org, updated daily, is a leading multi-sectoral, international news service specifically focusing on the issue of climate change. Brought to you by Responding To Climate Change 2006 and UNEP/GRID-Arendal, ClimateWire sources and brings together news items from around the world and delivers them to your desktop each day.
Website:	http://www.climatewire.org/

Corine land cover 1990 brochure

About:	CORINE Land Cover aims at collecting comparable and consistent land cover data across Europe. This information base, combined with the vision to use it, offers the essential elements for building applications for everyone involved in environmental issues, whether they are concerned with nature conservation, urban planning or resource management.
Website:	http://terrestrial.eionet.europa.eu/CLC2000/docs/publications/corinescreen.pdf

Earthwire

About:	EarthWire is used by government officials as a briefing on the day's environmental news, journalists following hot issues, students and researchers looking for current information on the state of the environment, and by anyone interested in current events and the environment.
Website:	http://www.earthwire.org/uk/

Environmental Times

About:	A periodic publication by UNEP/GRID � Arendal covering all aspects of the environment in exclusive detail from across the world. The paper is available for download by page or as a whole document.
Website:	http://www.environmenttimes.net/

European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL)

About:	EARSeL is a scientific network of European remote sensing institutes, coming from both academia and the commercial/industrial sector. EARSeL is unique in that it represents the interests of these institutes rather than individuals, although individual membership is possible. Currently, there are about 250 member laboratories
Website:	http://www.earsel.org/?target=earsel/earsel

European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS)

About:	The European Commission DG Joint Research Centre set up since 1999 a research group to work specifically on the development and implementation of advanced methods for the evaluation of forest fire risk and mapping of burnt areas at the European scale.
Website:	http://effis.jrc.it/Home/

European Topic Centre on Terrestrial Environment

About:

European Topic Centre on Terrestrial Environment supports the European Commission and European Environment Agency member states in their attempts to achieve sustainable development and to improve their environment. Through the analysis and understanding of spatial change, European Topic Centre on Terrestrial Environment 's work is closely interrelated with other EEA priority areas such as biodiversity loss, climate change, human health and quality of life, sustainable use and management of natural resources and waste, among others. Visit the other topic centers web sites for more information on these topics.

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http://terrestrial.eionet.europa.eu/CLC2000

Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence (GIScCE)

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http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/index.php

Global Change Research

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Global Environment Monitoring Unit

About:	The Global Environment Monitoring Unit is part of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. It delivers products and services, derived from the analysis of satellite remote sensing data and numerical modeling, to directly support policies in the fields of Space, Environment and Sustainability, Climate Change and Development Aid.
Website:	http://www-gem.jrc.it/

Global Interactive View

About:	Comparison of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme Land Cover Classification dataset and global satellite derived imagery. Map allows users to zoom into regions and examine satellite and land cover data side by side.
Website:	http://www-gem.jrc.it/glc2000/interactive/glc2000_vgt.html

Global Land Project

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