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New CGIAR Ongoing Research Map
To create more synergy between projects and research efforts of one or more organizations, it is essential to have a good overview of ongoing projects, including where those projects are being...
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Using DIVA-GIS to create bioclim data layers
Earlier I wrote more about how to calculate bioclim data layers in GRASS GIS. For people that do not use GRASS GIS, it is probably easier to generate these layers in DIVA GIS. You can get DIVA-GIS for...
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Placing your library on the map
Zotero, the free Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources, just came with an interesting new plutin; Zotero maps. The plugin allows Zotero users to map the...
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Spatial datasets on the web
For my work I am spending much time finding spatial data including environmental, administrative and land use coverage data. I started to record links with short description and keywords in a simple...
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Importing WorldClim climate .bil datalayers in GRASS GIS II
I uploaded an update to the R script I posted earlier to import data downloaded from WorldClim into GRASS. The main change is that it unzips and imports one grid at a time into GRASS, thus requiring...
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Mapping Forest resource assessment 2010 data – part I
About a year ago I wrote a post about how to make a map showing deforestation rates in Africa based on the Global Forest Assessment 2005 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation...
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Major conservation biology textbook now free online
Conservation Biology for All, a book edited by Navjot S. Sodhi of the National University of Singapore and Paul R. Ehrlich of Stanford University, has been posted on mongabay.com, an environmental...
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Should you georeference your scientific data?
As Jeff Thurston writes in his blog, a strong case can be made for spatially enabling scientific research. This is especially true for biological / ecological research as biological processes occur...
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Visualizing confidence in data on map: example of SoilWeb Mobile
See this post for a nice example how one can display the level of confidence in the data presented for a mapping unit on a map. The SoilWeb provides the distance from the nearest map unit polygon...
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Online data: map of global urbanization
This is an interesting data source on urban extent I hadn’t come across yet. It is based on Modis data and available at http://sage.wisc.edu/people/schneider/research/data.html and is described in more...
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Reverb; new tool on the NASA site to search, find and download data
I was looking today for the most convenient way to download the MODIS landcover data from the LP DAAC. In between the 7! different portals one would expect at least one to be easy, but it was only the...
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New overview of free GIS datasets
Check out this link, it contains a long list with free data sources: http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/ Filed under: Data sources Tagged: data
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Update of GADM datasets
It is always good to keep an eye on your data sources if you don’t want to miss out on new versions. Like the Global Administrative Areas database (GADM), which published version 2 of their data set...
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Poverty maps on HarvestChoice
Data on poverty levels, important for amongst others development study, yet very difficult to get. Sure, you can get global statistics from e.g., the FAO, Worldbank, here or here. But these give you...
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New: Quantum map, a simplified QGIS version
An announcement on the QGIS mailing list about NIWA Quantum map made me curious. How is this going to differ from QGIS? As it turns out, NIWA Quantum map is basically QGIS with a simplified interface,...
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A wealth of knowledge on biological diversity at your fingertips
I love this website of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Through this website, a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries have made available the legacy literature of biodiversity held in...
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What if Google decides to discontinue Google Scholar?
Since Google discontinued Google reader I have always been wondering; what if they decide to stop with Google Scholar? If you are lucky enough to have access to an university library, you should be...
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Online data sources: the Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development
Data source of the week There is a wealth of information on e.g., land use, climate and species available online. But you need to know where to look. My plan is to highlight one example every week...
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Online data sources: Harvest choice
One example of of spatial data on the web every week… this week Harvest choice Harvest Choice Description: Harvest Choice is a collaboration between various partners that aim to build decision support...
View ArticleOnline data sources: the global width database for large rivers
I came across this interesting data source, and though I might as well share it. Description: A global database of the the width of the large rivers (GWD-LR). The river width is derived from...
View ArticleImporting data in GRASS GIS – an example
Introduction ISRIC, Earth Institute, Columbia University, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) have recently released a new data set of raster...
View ArticleImporting GLCF MODIS woody plant cover
The data set The Global Land Cover Facility offers, amongst many other data sets, the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields data set for download. These are layers that contain proportional estimates for...
View ArticlePicture Pile; play and help science
There is a successor of Cropland Capture, Picture Pile, from the people behind Geo-Wiki. Like Cropland Capture, this tool / game uses a citizen science approach, in this case to track deforestation....
View ArticleFinding open data for the Netherlands
Open data is becoming increasingly important and there are considerable advantages, such as accountability, cost and time savings for users, easier knowledge sharing and increased efficiency in public...
View ArticleUse R to get gbif data into a GRASS database
Introduction This tutorial contains outdated examples, See the updated tutorial on ecodiv.earth. GBIF The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open data infrastructure...
View ArticleClimate data sets, which one to select?
For species or vegetation modelling, one of the first choices to make is the selection of explanatory variables, which in most cases will include climatic or bioclimatic data sets. One of the most...
View ArticleHigh resolution maps of the human population density in Africa
Population density maps have multiple implications, e.g., to help relief agencies to better plan where they are needed most in case of disaster and in demographic, economic and environmental research....
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