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>