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

Elevation data (30m, 90m, 1km; 2000)

- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Elevation; 30 m, 90 m, 1km pixel resolutions; Product Coverage Date: February 2000.
- Downloadable at The Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF), University of Maryland.
<http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/srtm/>