Sun path chart program

< http://solardat.uoregon.edu/SunChartProgram.html>

citation from University of Oregon, Solar Radiation Monitoring Laboratory.
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This program creates sun path charts in Cartesian coordinates for: (1) "typical" dates of each month (i.e.; days receiving about the mean amount of solar radiation for a day in the given month); (2) dates spaced about 30 days apart, from one solstice to the next; or (3) a single date you specify. You can select whether hours are plotted using local standard time or solar time. In addition, there are a number of options available to allow you to alter the chart's appearance. Resulting charts are displayed in your Web browser window, and they are meant to be printed out. Two formats are currently available: PDF (Adobe) and PNG (a standard international graphics format). The create sun path charts in polar coordinates go to the polar sun path charts Web page. For more information, visit our Web page about using sun charts.
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GIS textbook

Beyond Mapping III
(Compilation of Beyond Mapping columns appearing in GeoWorld magazine 1996 to 2007)

Easy to understand with various pictures. All the pages are downloadable, though it is sold as a book. Many concrete examples of the objective, quantitative and exhaustive approach are described with easy-to-understand pictures.

It is used as a textbook of the lecture at Harvard "Advanced Workshop in GIS"(Instructor: Sumeeta Srinivasan; Spring 2008). Using this book as a textbook of a lecture seems very good.

Global soil informaiton

• Global Soil Regions Map
  by the Natural Resources Conservation Service U.S. Department of Agriculture
  http://soils.usda.gov/use/worldsoils/mapindex/order.html
  Free, downloadable; a 2 minute grid cell resolutions; Production Date: April, 1997 Revised: September, 2005. Geographic Coverage: Global; Minimum Scale: 1:5,000,000.
  
  
• World soil information
  by International Soil Reference and Information Centre
  http://www.isric.org/NR/exeres/545B0669-6743-402B-B79A-DBF57E9FA67F.htm
  
  
• Digital Soil Map of the World and Derived Soil Properties
  by The Land and Water Development Division, FAO
  http://www.fao.org/AG/AGL/agll/dsmw.stm
  

ArcIMS site for Bhutan landslide project

<http://ec.hq.unu.edu/website/Bhutan0905_2/>

Data Sources

• Cities: ArcWorld; ESRI Data& Maps 2006
• Capital City: ArcWorld; ESRI Data& Maps 2006
• Rain Stations: Converted from geological coodination table using ArcGIS Desktop (UNU) 2007
• Streams: Global Drainage Basin Database (GDBD); Center for Global Environmental Research at the National Institute for Environmental Studies; Yuji Masutomi, Inui Yusuke, Kiyoshi Takahashi, and Yuzuru Matsuoka (2007) Development of highly accurate global polygonal drainage basin data. Accepted to Hydrological Processes.
• Basins: Global Drainage Basin Database (GDBD); Center for Global Environmental Research at the National Institute for Environmental Studies; Yuji Masutomi, Inui Yusuke, Kiyoshi Takahashi, and Yuzuru Matsuoka (2007) Development of highly accurate global polygonal drainage basin data. Accepted to Hydrological Processes.
• Country_Boundaries: ArcWorld; ESRI Data& Maps 2006
• Province_Boundaries: ArcWorld Supplement; ESRI Data& Maps 2006
• StateProvinceNames: ArcWorld Supplement; ESRI Data& Maps 2006
• Water body: ArcWorld; ESRI Data& Maps 2006
• Satellite Image: Global Imagery; Earth Satellite corporation, 150 m pixel resolution.
• Landuse: UMD Land Cover Classification (University of Maryland; Department of Geography); 1 km pixel resolutions; Product Coverage Date: February 2000, Publish: 1998.
• Elevation: Global Digital Elevation Model (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission; SRTM); SRTM: NASA, NGA, USGS, EROS, ESRI; 90 m pixel resolutions; Product Coverage Date: February 2000.
• Hillshade: Derived from Elevation data using ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 with Spatial Analyst.

Project description:
<http://wm.hq.unu.edu/index.php/Programs#Landslide_Risk_Mangement>

UTM Grid Zones Map (World)

<http://www.dmap.co.uk/utmworld.htm>

Streams and basins (Derived from 1km DEM; Pb. 2007)

- Global Drainage Basin Database (GDBD): Center for Global Environmental Research at the National Institute for Environmental Studies;.
- Free, downloadable; Publish: 2007.
- Derived from DEM: H1k-DEM (HYDRO1k), 1 km resolution by USGS 2000
(250m resolution in Japan; 3 seconds resolution in Korean Peninsula)
- ArcGIS Geodatabase format
<http://www-cger.nies.go.jp/cger-e/db/enterprise/gdbd/gdbd_index_e.html>

Layers
- Drainage basin boundary (polygon)
- River network (polygon)
- Discharge gauging station (point)
- Natural lake (point)
- Dam lake (point)
- Flow direction (raster)

Landuse (1 degree, 8 km and 1 km; 1998)

- UMD Land Cover Classification (University of Maryland; Department of Geography)
- Free, downloadable; 1 degree, 8 km and 1 km pixel resolutions; Product Coverage Date: 1981-1994 , Publish: 1998.
<http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/landcover/>

Classification
Value, attribute
0 Water
1 Evergreen Needleleaf Forest
2 Evergreen Broadleaf Forest
3 Deciduous Needleleaf Forest
4 Deciduous Broadleaf Forest
5 Mixed Forest
6 Woodland
7 Wooded Grassland
8 Closed Shrubland
9 Open Shrubland
10 Grassland11 Cropland
12 Bare Ground
13 Urban and Built