Wednesday, October 17, 2007

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>