Imagery and Data Sources

QUICK LINKS

Honduras Data Sources
Global Sources
Help on Finding and Using Satellite Data

Honduras Sources:

• AFE- COHDEFOR - Areas Protegidas - Honduras - see map.

• Programa de Administración de Tierra de Honduras - PATH.

• SAG - Secreteria de Agricultura y Ganaderia - INFO-AGRO - see Biofisica Agricola - SIG.

• SERNA - Secretaria de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente y SINIA (Sistema Nacional de Informacion Ambiental) - mapas en linea.

• UCP - Unidad Coordinadora de Proyectos - SISTEMA NACIONAL DE ADMINISTRACIÓN DE LA PROPIEDAD
  REPUBLICA DE HONDURAS - SINAP - National Land Administration System (English version)

  • SINIT - Honduras Sistema Nacional de Informacion Territorial - FGDC clearinghouse data.
  • SINIT - English Interface - Instructions for installing JAVA/ESRI Viewers, etc.

Key Imagery Data and Web Services Partner -- GeoBrain/NEHEA Project (NASA EOS Higher-Edeucation Alliance) (LAITS) George Mason University:

• GeoBrain Online Analysis System (GeOnAS) - Tutorial

  Data Download - GMU CSISS local catalog and NASA ECHO.

 

Other Resources:

• CCRS - radar data/sources (Canada).

• CGIAR-Consortium for Spatial Information (CSI) - 90m SRTM Elevation data download

• CIESIN's SEDAC and PERN (Population-Environment Research Network)

• Digital Globe (formerly EarthWatch) - QUICKBIRD, SPOT, LANDSAT, DGQs, Ortho Imagery

• Earth Trends - World Resources Institute (Environmental Information Portal)

• ESA (European Space Agency) - How to get Earth Observation data - ENVISAT DATA

• ESDIS Project - NASA/GSFC - Earth Observing System Data Gateway

• FAO - Geonetwork - home

• FAO: GLCN-LCTC network documents and

  FAO - FRA 2000 Forest Assessment and FRA 2005 Forest Assessment resources--see more below:

  • FRA2000 - DEFINITIONS OF FOREST AND RELATED LAND USE CLASSIFICATIONS AND FOREST CHANGE PROCESSES
  • FRA 2000 - Global Mapping document
  • FRA 2000 Main Report
  • FAO - Forestry Home page
  • FAO - Honduras Forestry page
  • GLCN - home page
  • GLCN/LCCS Concept and its application in Africa as the AFRICOVER Project.
  • GLCN Workshop in Costa Rica
  • GLCN - Descriptive document

   

• GBIF and ESRI (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) - Sharing and Accessing Biodiversity Data Globally By Hannu Saarenmaa, Deputy Director for Informatics, GBIF Secretariat.

  • How to Become a GBIF Data Provider

• GeoCommunity's GIS Data Depot

• GIST - Geographic Information Support Team (USAID)

• GLCF - Global land Cover Facility - University of Maryland:
  

  • Data Guide and FAQ:

  • Earth Science Data Interface (ESDI)

  • ESDI Help files

• GlobeXplorer - Image Connect - Aerial and Satellite Photos in Your GIS and CAD

• GOS Portal - geodata.gov (Geospatial One-Stop)

• GSDI - Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association - Spatial Data Infrastructure Cookbook v2.0 (PDF) January 2004.

• GPS conversion of waypoints, tracklogs, and routes to ArcGIS/ArcView shapefiles.
  
  GO TO DNR Garmin Extension for ArcView:
  

• • link for for DNR Garmin 5.1.1. = ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/NCGC/products/gps/software/dnr-garmin5-arcmap.pdf
  • download DNR Garmin 5.1.1 from:
     

    http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mis/gis/tools/arcview/extensions/DNRGarmin/DNRGarmin.html

• Institute for Marine Remote Sensing (IMaRS), College of Marine Science, University of South Florida - Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project - Landsat Coral Reef Archive.

• IOCCG - International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group - Software for Ocean-Colour Data

• JPL - ASTERweb - TerraLook dowload Archived Collections - download data

• MDA Federal Inc. (formerly Earthsat)

• NASA - How to get Earth Observation data. and Earth Science Enterprise System Components ("coins chart").

  • NASA EOS (Earth Observing System) - Data Gateway.

  • NASA/SERVIR Portal - Mesoamerican Visualization and Monitoring System - MESOSTOR (data gateway).

• NOAA Coastal Services Center

• Space Imaging - IKONOS, RADAR, DEMs, etc.

• SERVIR-Cathalac Portal - Mesoamerica

• TERRAserver.com - home

• UNEP/GRID data sets - UNEP-NET - global portal to authoritative environmental information based on themes and regions

• USGS - EarthExplorer:

  • USGS-GLOVIS

  • USGS-IABIN-DGF project, in particular the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) derived data produced by EROS for all the Central American countries, Panama, and some Caribbean islands. DATA DOWNLOAD.

  • Digital Satellite Data

  • Earth Observing System Data Gateway

  • Earth Resources Observation & Sciece (EROS)

  • Geospatial One-Stop - Geodata.gov

  • Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC)

  • Landsat - Project Home - FREE Orthorectified Landsat data is now available for free download from the US Geological Survey

  • SDDS - EROS/USGS - Seamless Data Distribution System, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)

  • Terralook - USGS - ASTERweb - TerraLook dowload Archived Collections - download data