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-- The Africover
project
These are the main institutions or bodies with which Africover has developed special partnership: United Nations Environmental Program Use of high-resolution satellite data in Chad (Dec. 1998) Use of NOAA remote sensing data for Liberian forests (Dec. 1998) Environmental Impact Assessment Training in Kenya (Nov. 1998) Projet Régional de Gestion et d'Information Environmentale (PRGIE) (June 1997) Wetlands monitoring in Zambia (July 1996) La planification des stratégies contre les effets de la sécheresse (surtout au Maroc) (July 1996) Energy for Sustainable Development & Food Security in Africa (March 1996) Future Energy Requirements for Africa's Agriculture (March 1996) Rainfall Variability & Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa (May 1996) East African Biodiversity Project: institutional support for the protection of east African biodiversity: Agrometeorological Crop Forecasting The Role of Remote Sensing in FAO's Global Forest Resources Assessment and Monitoring Programme FAOSTAT - Online Searchable database containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery, Trade, Population, etc. FAO Landuse Database - Searchable database on land use for all countries since 1961. Part of FAOSTAT. FAO SD Dimensions - Information service of the FAO Sustainable Development Department. Some of the RS/GIS related resources: FAO Publications on Remote Sensing. Summaries of some of the publications are available in Environmental Information: Resources
FAO Nile - FAO Nile Basin
Water Resources project (GCP/INT/752/ITA) REIMP: Regional Environmental
Information Project for the Congo basin Land Cover Mapping of South Africa: National land cover database project for South Africa
Direct Reception Ground Stations ARGENTINA: CONAE (Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales) - (www.conae.gov.ar) AUSTRALIA: ACRES (Australian Centre for Remote Sensing) - satellite remote sensing organization for receiving and processing data from earth observation satellites. (www.auslig.gov.au/acres/index.htm) BRAZIL: INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) (www.inpe.br) CANADA: CCRS (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) (www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca) EQUADOR: CLIRSEN (Centro de Levantamientos Integrados de Recursos Naturales Por Sensores Remotos) (www.clirsen.com) GERMANY: DLR Neustrelitz (Deutsche Luft und Raumfahrt) (www.nz.dlr.de) ITALY: Telespazio (www.telespazio.it) JAPAN: RESTEC (www.restec.or.jp) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: CRSSGS (China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station) - supplier of civil earth observation satellite data in China. The data are received from Landsat, ERS, Spot and JERS, and the footprint of the station covers almost 80% of the surface of the country (www.rsgs.ac.cn) SINGAPORE: CRISP (Center for Space and Remote Imaging and Processing) of the National University of Singapore - data acquired from Spot, ERS and Radarsat. Ground station to process the data into standard and value-added products. (www.crisp.nus.edu.sg) SWEDEN: SSC: (Swedish Space Corporation), a government-owned limited
company under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, with activities
covering the entire range of space related work from feasibility
studies to operational applications of space technology (www.ssc.se/) THAILAND: NRSC (National Remote Sensing Centre) receives, archives and distributes data from various earth observation satellites to local and foreign users. (www.nrct.go.th)
EUROPE: ESA: (European Space Agency) defines long term European policies and plans in the fields of science, Earth observation, telecommunications and space. (www.esa.it) EUROPE: ESRIN: ESA's Centre in Frascati, Italy, is in charge of the exploitation of the ERS and Envisat satellites. (www.esrin.esa.it/esrin) INDIA: ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) (www.isro.org) USA: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States (www.nasa.gov) JAPAN: NASDA (National Space Development Agency) - develops satellites and launches/controls vehicles (www.nasda.go.jp)
Commercial Companies Providing High Resolution Data USA: EARTHWATCH: Based in Colorado, the company supplies high resolution panchromatic and multispectral imagery through its Quickbird satellites (www.digitalglobe.com) USA: ORBIMAGE: An affiliate of Orbital Sciences Corporation, OrbImage is developing a global system of satellites, ground stations and Internet-bases sales channels to collect, process and distribute earth observation imagery products (www.orbimage.com) USA: SPACE IMAGING: Space Imaging, based in Colorado, collects and distributes a wide variety of satellite- and aerially-derived digital Earth information products from a variety of sources such as Landsat and the Indian IRS satellites (www.spaceimage.com) USA/ISRAEL: WIS: West Indian Space manages the EROS program through which a constellation of eight high satellites provide high resolution panchromatic data over most of the Earth's surface on a daily basis. (www.coresw.com)
USA: SEASPACE: The company developed the TERASCAN system to enable users to archive, process, distribute and analyze data from the NOAA, Meteosat, GOES and DMSP series of satellites.www.seaspace.com)
EARTHSAT: The Earth Satellite Company is a world leader in the utilization of remote sensing data for aircraft and satellites, and is the largest commercial provider of enhanced satellite data. (www.earthsat.com) Eurimage-Commercial Remote Sensing Data supplier
SPOT Satellite Images of Forest/Plantation Fires and Smoke Haze over Southeast Asia (at CRISP, Singapore) Global Fire Atlas at
ESRIN/ESA
Remote sensing Tutorials/FAQs/Presentations Earthnet : Remote Sensing Applications Identification of rice cropping systems in Mekong River Delta using multitemporal ERS SAR images - ERS Symposium 97. Remote Sensing: Satellite View Shows Crop "Signatures" - vegetation mapping techniques using Landsat images. Mapping Current Land Cover In Virginia World Wide Web Presentation on: Remote Sensing of Forest Vegetation - Batemans Bay by CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, Australia. Satellite Inventory of Minnesota Forest Resources The Canadian Remote Sensing Society Remote Sensing Workstation for Forest Fire Detection and Monitoring - VTT Automation Remote Sensing Group, Technical Research Center of Finland Remote Sensing and Agriculture
Remote Sensing Missions/Projects VEGETATION Programme on SPOT 4 - CNES site LUCC - Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) Project of IGBP and IHDP, which recently endorsed the FAO land cover classification system at the Ispra workshop (October 2000) TREES - Tropical Ecosystem Environment observation by Satellite. A joint program of the ESA and the JRC "oriented towards the study of tropical forest dynamics at regional to global scales using remote sensing techniques". TEAM - Terrestrial Environment and Atmosphere Modeling. Research, based on remote sensing data, on the interactions between terrestrial surfaces and the atmosphere. Global Rainforest Mapping Project (GRFM) - to acquire data sets of the major rain forest areas on the Earth by the L-band SAR on JERS-1. Rainforest area mapped included the whole Amazon Basin, central and west Africa, Congo River Basin, SE Asia and Northern Australia. International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP): A Study of Global Change. An interdisciplinary scientific activity established and sponsored by the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU). Global Land Cover Test Sites (GLCTS) project - A dataset of satellite imagery for a globally distributed set of selected test sites which will represent a wide range of land cover types. This dataset will provide a resource for research on land cover characterization and the testing of algorithms for NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS). Satellite assessment for rice in Indonesia (SARI) - Phase I Demonstration Case Study
International data sources by countries: Africa: African Data Dissemination Service NASA Landsat Pathfinder - Central Africa ADIE - Association pour le Développement de l'Information Environnementale dans la sous région du bassin du Congo CARPE-Central African Regional Program for the Environment. Carpe is a new initiative by USAID to address the issue of deforestation in the Congo Basin forest zone Cultural Heritage GIS Resources: Africa GIS Development for South Africa South Africa GIS sites-Links to governmental metadata gateways. Umgeni Water GIS Contents Page-South Africa EIS-SSA : a program which aims at developing African capacity for the management of environmental information as an integral component of the sustainable development process EASD: a private non-profit corporation focusing on the empowerment of African institutions operating in the area of environmental management and sustainable development. Grassland Society of Southern Africa Group for Environmental Monitoring (GEM), an NGO operating in the natural resources field International Association for Impact Assessment - the South African branch of the International Association for Impact Assessment LESOTHO MOUNTAIN RESEARCH GROUP - A network for integrated mountain research South African National Antarctic Program Southern Africa Environment Project - Resources about sustainable development and environment SAVANNAS: Research in to Southern African Savannas based in London. The research is currently funded through the European Union and involves the collaboration between 4 Southern African Countries (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Mozambique) and 3 EU countries (Italy, UK and Spain) Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel - Tunisia International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Antartica/Arctic: International Arctic Environmental Data Directory Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (ARC/INFO export format) Antarctica Online -Australian Antarctic Program ANTARCTICA South African National Antarctic Program
Asia: Asia Pacific: National Metadatabase-Environmental Resource Information Center ASIAN Population Data: Maintained by UNEP. ICSEA - Southeast Asian Policy Advisory Network in Global Change Badan Koordinasi Survey dan Pemetaan Nasional (Bakosurtanal - National Coordinating Agency for Surveying and Mapping) [Indonesian] China Dimensions: Socio-economical Information on China at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Department of Surveying and Mapping - Malaysia Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) - Japan GIS India: links to both commercial and non-commercial GIS data sites for India. Japan GIS/Mapping Sciences Resource Guide JODC Data Online Service System -Japan Oceanographic Data Center Lembaga Pemerbangan dan Antariksa Nasional (LAPAN - National Institute of Aeronautics and Space) - Indonesia Mountain Environment and Natural Resources Information Service (International Center for Integrated Mountain Development) National Land Information Infrastructure (NaLIS) - Malaysia National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) - The Philippines National Remote Sensing Agency-India Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing, in the National University of Singapore Forestry and Vegetation Studies at CRISP, Singapore. A Guide to Malaysian Forestry Policies and Management - Contains articles on forestry policy and statistics on land use and forest area.
Australia: Australian Spatial Data Directory - A national initiative hosted by the Commonwealth Government, which provides an interface to spatial data directories throughout Australia. ACRES Digital Catalogue System ACT Land Information Centre (ACTLIC) Australia New Zealand Land Information Council Australian Antarctic Data Centre Australian Land Survey and Information Group Australian Oceanographic Data Centre (AODC) Autralian Spatial Data Directory CSIRO Earth Observation Centre Dept of Natural Resources (DNR) - Queensland Dept of Environment and Land Management (DELM) - Tasmania Dept of Natural Resources and Environment - Victoria Dept of Land Administration (DOLA) - Western Australia Green Pages - Environmental Data Directory NSW Natural Resources Data Directory - New South Wales Northern Territory, Department of Land, Planning and Environment Queensland Spatial Information Directory (QSID) Resource Information Group (DEHAA) South Australia (SA) Victorian Geospatial Data Directory Australian Rain Forest Homepage Tropical Forest Research Centre at CSIRO - The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology Research Programs Project Description of the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management, Australia. Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) Canada: GeoConnections/CGDI web site-Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Home Page. Canadian Forest Service-Homepage with links to different databases. CEONET-Canadian Geo-spatial Data Infrastructure Directory Geographic Data Sources for British Columbia LandData BC-British Columbia Clearinghouse for Land-Related Information North American Transportation Atlas Data (Canadian Data) - a set of transportation-related geo-spatial data for the North American countries participating in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Services d'information geographique du Canada Canadian Forests Education and Research - A directory of Canadian research organizations involved in the forest sector Sylva (Forestry) resource page at the University of Laval. Linkages - A Multimedia Resources for Environment & Development Policy Makers - provided by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), publishers of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin. Information on past and upcoming international meetings related to environment and development.
Central America: Georeference Population Data sets of Mexico INEGI-Mexico National Institute of Statistics North American Transportation Atlas Data (Mexico Data Set) - geo-spatial data for the North American countries participating in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - Mexico The Mexico Data System - GIS exploration database covering the republic of Mexico.
Europe: Albania: Geographical Studies Center report on Environmental Information Systems in Albania- list of contacts for specific metadata producing branches of the government. Academic Sites for Geomatic Engineering-Geodesy, Surveying, photogrammetry, cartography, GIS in Northern Europe. Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy) - Germany Institut Cartografic de Catalunya CNIG (Centro Nacional De Informacao Geografica)-National center for Geographical Information (In Portuguese) COFORD - National Council for Forest Research and Development, Dublin (Ireland) Digital Cartographic and Geodetic Data for the Republic of Slovenia Digital Data Store: UK-Large commercial data vendor, maintained by ESRI (UK) The World Conservation Monitoring Center provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the natural resources EUROGI (European Umbrella Organisation for Geographical Information) European Centre for Nature Conservation-A member of the IUCN, the World Conservation Union. Eurimage-Commercial Remote Sensing Data supplier ERM-Spain-Commercial software and data producer. (In Spanish) ERS InSAR: Forestry at University of Zurich Remote Sensing Laboratory ESRI Nederland-Formally Logisterion GIs, this site provides products and downloads exclusively for ESRI products. Conseil National de l'Information Geographique - List of links to French Data sources (In French). Croatian Geodetic Society - Croatia Czech Association for Geoinformation (CAGI) - Czech Republic Czech Geographical Society (CGS) - Czech Republic ESRI-Spain-ESRI created data sets for Spanish cities, hydrology, national parks, townships, etc. Federal Cadastral Centre (Zemlya) - Russia Geographic Institute of Hungary-Large data repository covering economic, environmental, biological issues concerning Hungary. German Remote Sensing Data Centre (DFD) Germany: ESRI Germany-ESRI's online form in Germany GTZ - Multisectoral Urban and Rural Development Programs, Germany GIS Austria-Governmental Geographic Information System GIS Einstieg Austria-(In German) GISLand; Iceland - data browser and links to numerous data resources of Iceland. GIS Technology, Inc.-ESRI sponsored distributor of French software and data. G & S, GIS & Survey-In Belgian GLONASS - Russia Global Datasets for the Nordic Countries and Baltic Sea Region EUROGI (European Umbrella Organisation for Geographical Information) Forestry at Remote Sensing Group, Chalmers University of Technology Complete Database of Hellenic Web Resources IGIS; Italian Geomatic Info Site-Contains a list of European Data providers, both commercial and public. Institut Géographique National (IGN) - France Instituto Geográfico do Exército (IGeoE) - Army Geographic Institute - Portugal Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen - KMS (National Survey and Cadastre) - Denmark Medias France: database / observation networks for France Miero GIS-Commercial statistical analysis, business mapping, Geodata and GIS provider. Mediterranean Water Resources-Links to a number of GIS projects and data sets for the Mediterranean region. METLA - Finnish Forest Research Institute The Monitoring Tropical Vegetation Unit (MTV) : part of the Space Applications Institute at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, this organization addresses issues related to the study of vegetation using data derived from earth observation instruments. National Land Survey of Finland - English, Finish National Technical University of Athens NERC-Natural Environment Research Council (UK) Netherlands-List of GIS Sites in the Netherlands Norwegian Ministry of the Environment Norwegian National Institute for Map and Geographic Information-In Norwegian Office Fédéral de Topographie (Federal Office of Topography) - Switzerland Ordinance Survey of Northern
Ireland-Commercial GIS provider and part of the Pan-Europe-Miscellaneous links to GIS Centers through Europe. Romania-GeoStrategies of Romania-Commercial vendor selling data for us with both ESRI and MapInfo products. Royal Holloway Institute for Environmental Research Spain-National Geographic Information Center of Spain Slovenian National Spatial Data Catalogue- directory of digital geo-spatial data sources for Slovenia Spatial Information about Great Britain The Greek Index-Electronic atlas of Greece UGIS Network-Baltic Region UKBORDERS - Digitized Boundary Data for the UK United Kingdom-list of GIS sites for the UK including information relating to historical data, physical geography, remote sensing, etc. Valkommen Till Lantmatiet; Sweden-(In Swedish) WIGIS (Western Isles of Scotland)-A GIS consulting company specializing in resources of the Western Isles. Woolleysoft-A commercial firm offering European 75 meter data, French DEM data and European DCW data data tiled, geo-corrected and re-sampled at 1km grid spacing.
Middle East: GIS Data Depot-Iran: Free data for Iran. Higher resolution data can be purchased as well.
South America: GIS DATA Depot for Paraguay: A commercial vendor that maintains both a free catalog and a catalog of data for purchase. GIS Data for Peru-Primarily a mineral exploration database, the site also includes GIS information Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute at Panama.
USA: Academic Geospatial Data Sites-Divided by region, this site provides a comprehensive list of academic institutions with strong backgrounds in GIS. Global Data Sets Available from UNEP/GRID Sioux Falls USDA PLANTS Project - The PLANTS Database provides a single source of standardized information about vegetation classification: standardized plant names, symbols and other plant attribute information. USDA Forest Service University of Oregon Library on GIS Vegetation Subcommittee of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Earth Cover Working Group of the FGDC and the Request for Classification Systems Key Sources of Earth Cover Data and Maps Vegetation and soils field research database from Laboratory for applications of remote sensing, Purdue University. ForNet - Enhanced Access for Forest management, NASA & Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Agri Engineering Texas A&M Univ. Inter-American Geospatial Data Network
Land Quality & Sustainable Land Management Indicatiors Sites Review and Assessment of Available Indicators for Evaluating Sustainable Land Management in Canada: http://www.res.agr.ca/PUB/ecorc/program3/pub/indicat/overview.htm
Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicator Initiatives
and Publications, at the international, national and provincial/territorial/state
levels: http://iisd1.iisd.ca/measure/compendium.htm
Land Quality Indicators Information System: http://srdis.ciesin.org/ Global Resource Information Database (GRID):
http://www.grida.no/prog/global/cgiar/index.htm The UNEP Meta-data Directory: http://www.grid.unep.org/ SPAAR Information System (SIS): http://www.bib.wau.nl/sis/ World Resources Institute (WRI): http://www.wri.org/wri/index.html
Other general environmental issues NATURA: Network of European Agricultural Universities and Scientific Complexes related with Agricultural Development: http://www.wau.nl/ United Nations ESCAP - Environment and natural resources development division The Natural Resources Institute: The Natural Resources Institute
of the University of Greenwich is an internationally recognized
center of expertise in research and consultancy in the environment
and natural resources sector. The Institute carries out research
and development on behalf of international donor agencies. Southern Africa Environment Project (SAEP): operates in the field of environmental law, sustainable development capacity-building , and use of information and communications technology in environmental education for southern African countries. http://www.oneworld.org/saep/ African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resource: http://sedac.ciesin.org/pidb/texts/nature.and.natural.resources.1968.html
African International Environmental Protection Symposium (AiEPS
‘99) The International Center for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) established in Nairobi in 1977. It aims to improve human welfare by alleviating poverty, improving food and nutritional security, and enhancing environmental resilience in the tropics. http://www.cgiar.org/ICRAF/ Earthwatch institute: Earthwatch works to build a sustainable world by creating a partnership between scientists, citizens and politicians. http://www.earthwatch.org/ World Resources Institute, Global Biodiversity Forum (GBF): http://www.wri.org/wri/wri/biodiv/ European Center for Nature Conservation: an independent foundation working in the field of nature conservation across Europe - http://www.ecnc.nl/ GRID (Global Resource Information Database) : United Nations Environment Program - http://www.grida.no Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change - Indiana University CIPEC - Indiana State University Global Environment Facility: the GEF provides grants and funding
to recipient countries for projects and programs that protect the
global environment and promote sustainable economic growth. GEF
projects and programs are managed through three implementing agencies:
the UNDP, the UNEP and the World Bank. United Nations Environment Program (UNEP): http://www.unep.org/ Commission on Ecosystem Management (IUCN): provides guidance on integrated ecosystem approaches to the management of natural and modified ecosystems - http://iucn.org/themes/cem/ Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD): encourages environmental protection and sustainable development - http://www.field.org.uk/ Global Earth Charter Consultation Process: Drafting a statement on sustainable development similar to the UN Declaration on Human Rights- http://www.earthcharter.org |