Links for GIS applied to genetic resources management
Off-the-shell software
ESRI GIS
ArcView GIS
Arc/Info GIS
The ESRI Virtual Campus (Online courses and help desks for Arcview, Arc/Info and other ESRI products)
WinDisp - Map and Image Display and Analysis Software (free user friendly basic GIS package)
GIS software specialized for plant genetic resources
DIVA
FloraMap Web Page
SID (Spatial Intra-Specific Diversity)
WorldMap
(from the Natural History Museum, London)
DOMAIN (software for generating maps of the potential distribution of plants and animals)
Resources on GIS
GIS WWW Resource List
GIS Awareness Package in Agricultural Research
University of Melbourne Online Course in GIS
Data sources
Africa Data Dissemination Service
NOAA Global Monthly Vegetation Cover
UNEP / GRID Global Datasets
Food and Agriculture Organization GIS Resources
Global Land Cover Characterisation (DEM, Global NDVI, Land-Cover and Ecosystems)
World Conservation Monitoring Centre Databases (maps of Protected Areas)
The CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information
The World Data Center System (WDCS)
International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC)
Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Sites Meta-database
CAST - Guide to Mostly On-Line and Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data
The UNEP Meta-data Directory
Geography Resources: Geospatial Datasets at the University of Texas
NOAA - Global Vegetation Index Products (weekly images of NDVI and the Precipitable Water Index)
Conservation and biodiversity projects using GIS
ESRI Conservation GIS
Terra Cognita Project
James
San Jacinto Mountains Reserve (excellent example of environmental
visualization using GIS)
US National Gap Analysis Program
HERB
(Hydrology Ecology and Regional Biodiversity) Project (GIS mapping of biodiversity)
Project Negret - Exploring GIS Methodologies in the Conservation of Montane Regions
GIS in Conservation and Management
(population based modeling with GIS)
MADAGASCAR: Vegetation Mapping and Biodiversity Conservation (using Geographical Information Systems)
The Society for Conservation GIS
A Spatial Modeling and Decision Support System for Conservation of Biological Diversity
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Genetic resources
International Conference on Science and Technology for Managing Plant Genetic Diversity in the 21st Century
IPGRI (International Plant Genetic Resources Institute)
International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS)
FAO Agriculture 21 Database
The Natural Heritage Network
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
World Resources Institute (WRI) - Alphabetical List of Publications
World Weeds Database (information on over
2400 weed species, including distribution)
Agricultural Network Information Center (lists locations of over 700 agricultural resource web pages)
BeanRef
Biodiversity and Biological Collections
Information System on Genetic Resources
System Wide Information Network for Genetic Resources (SINGER)
International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI)
METASPEC
- Meta-database on 132 data sources on species throughout Europe
USDA's GRIN (Genetic Resources Information Network)
