TERRACS ... Links and auxillary information
General favorites
- http://dict.leo.org
LEO, my favourite online dictionarry, english-german - http://www.britannica.com
Famous british encyclopedia, online access to the Merriam-Webster dictionary - http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov
GIS data search engine from the Federal Geographic Data Committee, the Google for GIS related datasets - http://geoengine.nima.mil
NIMA geoserver: Free global data, Digital Chart of the World, global DEM, etc. - http://edcimswww.cr.usgs.gov/pub/imswelcome
EOS data gateway: Fantastic data products from NASA and other data centers, GIS and satellite data - https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid
MrSID geoserver from the NASA: Free Landsat images in true colour, covers the entire earth - http://edcdaac.usgs.gov
Land Processes DAAC: All kind of geodata from the US and the world - http://freegis.org
Free GIS initiative: All kind of free GIS related software - http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/3dem.html
Homepage of 3DEM, a free software for creating 3D views and flights, one of my absolute favourites - http://www.esri.com
Homepage of ESRI - http://www.download.com
All kind of freeware and shareware for download
Software
- http://www.lizardtech.com/download
Homepage of Lizardtech, the developer of MrSID converters and free MrSID viewers - http://www.esri.com
Homepage of ESRI, the company which develops ArcView and ArcInfo - http://www.clarklabs.org
Homepage of Clarklabs, the developer of the GIS software IDRISI - http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/3dem.html
3DEM, a phantastic freeware program for 3D-visualisation and the cration of VRML files - http://freegis.org
GIS Freeware Initiative: all kinds of free software - http://grass.baylor.edu
GRASS GIS, a very comprehensive GIS-System, freeware for UNIX/LINUX operation systems - http://www.download.com
All kinds of shareware and freeware for download
Tutorials
- http://www.gisdevelopment.net/tutorials/index.htm
Comprehensive overview and additional links to various GIS tutorials, in english language
Hints and Utilities
- http://www.gisportal.com
Great and comprehensive GIS-Portal, all kind of links and geodata - http://www.gis.com
Great and comprehensive GIS-Portal, managed by ESRI, links to every section of GIS and geoinformatics
Spatial datasets:
- http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov
GIS data search engine of the US Federal Geographic Data Committee, the google for GIS datasets - http://geoengine.nima.mil
NIMA geoserver: Free global geodata, Digital Chart of the World, global DEM, etc. - http://edcimswww.cr.usgs.gov/pub/imswelcome
EOS data gateway: Great geodata of the NASA and other data centers, GIS and remote sensing data - https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid
MrSID geoserver of the NASA: Free landsat images, global coverage - http://edcdaac.usgs.gov
Land processes DAAC: all kind of geodata of the conterminous US and the entire world - http://dataservice.eea.eu.int/dataservice
Datapage of the EEA (European Environment Agency, good geodata of the european continent) - http://www.calle.com/world
Global gazeeter, informations about the position and altitude of nearly every place in the world - http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html
Geonet names server, comprehensive global database with informations about all kind of point objects (villages, churches, dams, etc.) - http://www.gisdatadepot.com
Comprehensive collection of all kind of geodata of the USA and the entire world - http://www.spatial-info.org/shtml/init_csi.shtml
Homepage of CGIAR (Consortium for spatial information), network of organisations with a lot of great geodata - http://www.maps.ethz.ch/map_catalogue.html
Links the various global data sets, great und consistent collection the the Zürich university - http://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov
No special GIS data, but satellite images which illustrate al kind of geomorphologic processes in the world - http://www.tec.army.mil/gis/index.htm
Very comprehensive collection of links of the USACE (US Army Corps of Engineers), links for GIS and geodata - http://www.unep.net
Homepage of the UNEP (United Nations Environmental Program), very good geodata for free download, various portals with different geographical and thematical topics
Special topics
- http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/WAtlas/atlas.htm
Digital climate data in very high resolution, best global data available, issued by IWMI (International water management institute) - http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/2minrelief.html
ETOPO2 homepage, global DEM with additional bathymetric data - http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/gtopo30.html
GTOPO30 and HYDRO1K, the most cited global digital elevation models - http://www.dlr.de/srtm
SRTM homepage of the DLR (German center of remote sensing), all kind of SRTM datasets - http://www.terrainmap.com
Homepage of terrainmap, if you are interested in digital elevations models, this will be your favourite site in future - http://certnetra.cr.usgs.gov/oilgas/wep/products/data.htm
Favourite site for geologists who are working globaly, digital geological maps of any area of the world, free download in shapefile format or as a pdf-file - http://www.itc.nl/~rossiter/research/rsrch_ss_digital.html
Great site for soil scientists, useful links to pedological data centers and universities
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