Useful Links for Data
Land Cover Data
Global land cover characteristics data base
Global Land Cover Discovery UMD
Hansen Global Forest Cover Data
Forest Inventory Data
Forest Inventory and Analysis National Program
(Note: Plot locations are +- 0.5 to 1 mile off).
Climate, Hydrology, and other global data
(some are only for US)
IRI IDEO climate data, Columbia University
PRISM, Oregon State University
UNEP Geodata (Various datasets)
NY GIS clearinghouse (NY data)
Cornell University geospatial data
Tropical rainfall measuring mission-NASA
FAO data including World Soil database
Soil Data
Global Soil profile data- WISE
FAO data including World Soil database
Elevation Data
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
USGS/WWF hydrosheds- global data
Socioeconomic Data
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