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The Geography of the Internet

[1] Virtual Tourist World Map
Text-based directory of WWW servers.
[2] City.Net World Map
Map-based interface to City.Net, a library of local and regional information


General Geography Hyperlinks

[3] The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Geography
General information, links to countries and to education
[4] Yahoo - Science:Geography
General pointer page to geography sites.
[5] Yahoo - Science:Geography:Institutes
Search engine for land marks or particular places.
[6] UCL/GEOG
Geography Institutes Around the World. Same as [12].
[7] University of Lund
Some ANU links and links to other geography gophers
[] UCL/GEOG - Geographic Institutes around the World
Links to colleges and universities geography departments.
[8] World Flags
Listing of world flags.


Professional Geography Group Hyperlinks

[9] AAG Member Email Addresses
Searchable index at the University of Buffalo.
[10] Association of American Geographers Home Page.
Information, publications and other resources.
[11] Sensitive Map of Geography Departments
Geography departments on the internet. Partially built with the resourse at UT at Austin. Alphabetical listing of diffrent sites.


Geography Department Hyperlinks

[12] Geography Departments
Same as [6].
[13] Arizona State University Department of Geography
Department programs, courses and links to resources
[14] Geography at the University of Buffalo - Home Page
Information about the department and their project involving the growth of Buffalo, plus links to additional resources.
[15] Geographic Information and Analysis Lab
Multipurpose resource center supported jointly by the UB Department of Geography and the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA)


Geography Subfield Hyperlinks

[16] Physical Geography Resources
Current Weather Images, Maps and Movies, Current Weather Data, Climate Images, Climate Data, Atmospheric Composition: Trace Gases, etc., Solar, TMAP Ocean Data and Images, Earth Topography, Stream Flow Data, Vegetation, Soils, Information Servers
[17] Office of Climatology
Arizona State University
[18] Welcome to Weather World
Several weather-related resources.
Most service has been interrupted because of work on "Weather Machine" gopher (Fall 1996)
[19] Ocean Planet Homepage
Smithsonian Travel Exibit. Can asssess Museum of Natural History.
[20] Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Oceanographic research and education information.
[21] JHU/APL Digital Relief Map of the US (Composites Browser)
Locate features via two relief maps of the U.S.
[22] National Geophysical Data Center
World center on Geophysical geography. Has mailing list to recieve new products and services.
[23] The Topographic Map Service
Introductinon material to topographic maps. Definition of key terms.
[24] Landscapes
Landscape ecology & biogeography. Environments, agriculture, and links to geographic information servers.
[25] Tiger Mapping Service (TMS) Map Request Instructions
Instructions to use and links to the Tiger Mapping Service (see [26]).
[26] U.S. Gazetteer
Get a map of an area and place Census data on that map. Links to obtain census data down to the census tract.
[27] Gopher: Geography
Gopher links to many different sites-many different types of areas of Geography.
[28] The World in Arnold Peters Projection
A projection map with the advantage over a "normal" Mercator Projection in that the size of a surfaces is given correctely. A couple links to other projections.
[29] USGS Mapping Information
Accurate and up-to-date cartographic data and information for the United States
[30] USGS Mapping Information: Software
Ordering U.S. Geological Survey software.


Applications Hyperlinks

[31] Geographic Information Systems - GIS
Geographic information systems (GIS) technology can be used for scientific investigations, resource management, and development planning.
[32] Analysis and Modeling
Not Found (Fall 1996) even though the URL is still linked on the Regis Home Page (see [33]).
[33] REGIS: Environmental Planning GIS at Berkeley
Overview of Regis (Research Program in Environmental Planning and Geographic Information Systems) at The University of California, which is developing GIS tools and applying them in environmental planning, management, research, and teaching.
[34] FireNet Information Network
Useful information about fires. Lots of links to different sites all around the world. Also links to virtural libraries.
[35] GRASS info
GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) of the Army Corp of Engineers an integrated set of programs designed to provide digitizing, image processing, map production, and geographic information system capabilities to its users.
[36] National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
(NGDC) manages environmental data in the fields of marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, and glaciology (snow and ice). In each of these fields NGDC also operates a World Data Center (WDC A) discipline center. Links to USGS projects and geographic reports by state.
[] USGS Fact Sheets
Hazards, environment, resources, information management, and listings by state.


Research Hyperlinks

[37] Index of U.S. Geological Survey Servers
Biological Resources, Earthquake Information, Environmental Information, EROS Data Center (EDC), Geologic Information, Hazards Information, Laboratories, Mapping Information, Marine Geology, USGS Regional Offices and Field Centers, Volcano Information, Water Resources Information
[38] The World Factbook
Central Intelligence Agency. Follow the link to the most recent year for a summary for each country in the world.
[39] NASA's JPL Image/Information Archives
Document contains no data (Fall 1996). See [41].
Thematic Maps
[] NASA's JPL Image/Information Archives
Several classifications of images, historical information, and publications
[40] Gopher: Index
Searchable index. For instructions on how to use, see ???
[41] GLIS: Global Land Information System
Document contains no data (Fall 1996). See [39].
USGS Home Page
[] GLIS
National mapping information. Gives information on the earth's land surface.
No DNS entry (Fall 1996).
[42] Digital Data Series
Digital Data Series. On-line data files such as National Geochemical Data Base, Stratigraphic Nomenclature Databases, Digitized strong-motion accelerograms of North and Central American earthquakes 1933-1986, Photographs from the U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library, National Geophysical Data Grids, Modern Average Global Sea Surface Temperature, Geology of the Conterminous United States
[43] USGS Node of National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
Provides a pathway to find information (i.e.,"metadata") about geospatial data available from USGS. Browsing and searching available.
[44] National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA)
University at Buffalo's research with computer technologies that enable scientists and policy makers to visualize geographic problems through maps, images, and data.
[45] Query Interface to the USGS Internet Servers Broker
File not found (Fall 1996)
[46] Gopher: Search USGS/GNIS Database
Search by state.
[47] USGS Geo Data
Access to lots of information, including FTP files.
USGS Geo Data
Document contains no data (Fall 1996).
[48] Earth Moon
The Earth-Moon System as seen by Galileo in December 1992. Can access the National Air and Space Museum and Weather World.
Last updated 9/17/1995 (Fall 1996)
[49] Earth
General information about Earth.
[50] Views of the Solar System
Page for a $21.95 CD-ROM created as an educational tour of the solar system. It contains images and information about the Sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and meteoroids found within the solar system.
[51] PCL Map Collection
Perrry Castaneda electronic maps collection.
[52] USGS NSDI Clearinghouse
Aerial Photographs and Satellite Photographs
[53] Declassified Satellite Photographs
Document contains no data (Fall 1996).
[54] SOEST Anonymous FTP Offerings
No response from server (not responding or down) (Fall 1996).
[55] Computer Laboratory Alternative Homepage
No longer available for internet access. University of Cambridge server for internal computer laboratory use.

Note: These listings contain many references to sun1.cr.usgs.gov and all access attempts to that server respond "Document contains no data". These sites need further research. (Fall 1996)


Copyright (C) © 1996-1997 Edward P. Kardas, Tommy M. Milford, and Danny A. Stewart. All rights reserved.

Last update: December 11, 1996 by Jerry Thomas, a student in the Infomation Technology class at Southern Arkansas University.


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