SOURCES OF GIS & REMOTELY SENSED DATA



SOURCES OF GIS, CLIMATE & REMOTELY SENSED DATA

|TYPE |URL |FORMAT |RECC. SOFTWARE |

|Various socio-economic | |CSV, XLS & XML |Excel & ArcGIS |

|Country Administrative | |ESRI SHP (zipped)|ArcGIS (can import to |

|Boundaries | | |Idrisi) |

|Global/Continental | |ESRI SHP (zipped)|ArcGIS (can import to |

|Administrative | | |Idrisi) |

|Boundaries | | | |

|Current World Climate | |ESRI GRD (zipped)|ArcGIS (can import |

|Averages data | |& |Binary into Idrisi) |

|(min/max/mean | |Generic Binary | |

|Temperature, rainfall, | | | |

|bioclim/altitude) | | | |

|Future World Climate | |Generic Binary |ArcGIS and Idrisi |

|Averages data (from | | | |

|climate models) |and | | |

|(Temperature & rainfall)| | | |

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|Past World Climate | |Generic Binary |ArcGIS and Idrisi |

|Average reconstructed | | | |

|(min/max Temperature, | | | |

|rainfall, bioclim) | | | |

|Climate maps available | |ASCII and |ArcGIS, Idrisi and QGIS|

|to download as GeoTIFF | |GeoTIFF | |

|90 metre global Digital | |GeoTIFF & ArcINFO|ArcGIS, Erdas Imagine |

|Elevation Model data | |Ascii |and Idrisi |

|1990/2000 Landsat Images| |MrSid |Convert for |

| | | |Idrisi/ArcGIS |

|European environmental | |various |various |

|data: maps and charts | | | |

|Epidemiological disease | |various |Various |

|maps and data | | | |

|USGS GLOVIS: Landsat, | |various (includes|Idrisi and ArcGIS |

|ASTER, EO-1, MODIS, | |GeoTIFF) | |

|TERRALOOK raw data |(requires free registration) | | |

|Global NOAA-AVHRR Data | |various |Idrisi and ArcGIS |

|USGS Global Ecosystems | |Ascii Grid, |Idrisi and ArcGIS |

|data | |GeoTIFF, Erdas | |

| | |Imagine | |

|Global Meteorological |Step-by-step download instructions: |.CSV |Excel |

|Data archive | | | |

|Meteorological & Climate| |Various text |Excel |

|data | | | |

|NCDC climate & | |Various |various |

|meteorology data | | | |

|UN-FAO Geo-spatial | |various |ArcGIS and Idrisi |

|network data | | | |

|FAO World Climate Data :| |software |All |

|software & database | | | |

|package | | | |

|SRTM 90 metre Digital | and |GeoTIFF |ArcGIS and Idrisi |

|Elevation Data | |(zipped) | |

|Natural Earth vector and| |various |Idrisi and ArcGIS |

|raster map data | | | |

|Africa: environmental | |.SHP and .IMG |Windisp, Idrisi and |

|raster and country | | |ArcGIS |

|boundary vector | | | |

|OpenStreetMap mapping | |.PNG, JPEG, .SVG,|ArcGIS and Idrisi |

|and cartography data | |.PDF | |

|Various sources of data | |various |All |

|covering a wide variety | | | |

|of themes | | | |

|Open StreetMap (OSM) | |Choose Shapefile |All |

|Shapefiles for many | |options | |

|urban areas in the world| | | |

|Sea-Surface Temperature | |GeoTIFF |All |

|maps | | | |

|Africa & Asia Rainfall | |GeoTIFF |All |

|Estimates | | | |

|World population data | |GeoTIFF |All |

|USGS/NASA Global data | |Various |All |

|Explorer | | | |

|MEA Earthserver | |Various |All |

|Climate4You | |Various |All |

|Health data and | |Numerical |All |

|statistics (WHO) | | | |

|Malaria Data and country| |Numerical |All |

|statistics | | | |

|Free Open Data from | |SHP files |All |

|Ordnance Survey (UK) | | | |

|Climatic Data sets | |Various |All |

|Climate Research Unit at| | | |

|UEA | | | |

|IPCC Data | |Various |All |

|ESRI Health and Climate | |Various |All |

|Open Data | | | |

|Free and open access to | |Various |All |

|biodiversity data | | | |

|Smithsonian Institute | |Excel |Excel |

|Volcano Database | | | |

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FREE GIS/IMAGE PROCESSING/CONVERSION/VISUALISATION SOFTWARE

|DIVA | |

|WINDISP | |

|QGIS | HIGHLY RECOMMENDED |

|GRASS | |

|MAPWINDOW | |

|MYGEODATA | |

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|HUMIDITY | |

|PAST | |

ONLINE TOOLS

|Humidity calculator | |

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USEFUL LINKS















COMMON FILE FORMATS

.ZIP – compressed ZIP archive .IMG – Erdas Imagine

.TIF/.TIFF – GeoTIFF format .SHP – Shape (vector) file

.BIN – Generic binary format .RRD = Erdas Imagine Image Statistics file

.ASC – Ascii format

.TXT – Test format

.CSV – Comma delimited (text) format

File format help database:

REMEMBER: Large datasets are often compressed into an archive file – to save time transmitting them down the internet. These archives often have file extensions such as .ZIP, .GZIP, .TAR or .GZ etc. A very good universal file un-archiver (which is free) is called 7-ZIP and can be downloaded from: You would need to use a program like 7-zip to decompress your downloaded data BEFORE attempting to open it in your GIS software.

USE CLICKABLE LINKS BY DOWNLOADING THIS FILE ELECTRONICALLY HERE:





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