A site created through a partnership of hundreds of state, provincial, regional, and federal organizations and agencies offering environmental, economic, and ecological coverage of the binational Great Lakes area. A search engine permitting free text scanning is provided. Searchers will find the access to the database of the Great Lakes National Program office especially useful. This site offers preliminary land ecosystem maps of the world since the last glacial maximum. Housed at the University of Minnesota, Department of Horticultural Science.
Topics covered are design, plat selection, implementation, and maintenance.
The newest edition of the dictionary of GIS terms. It contains 980 GIS and GIS-related terms and 52 diagrams. The GEONet Names Server provides access to NIMA's database of foreign geographic feature names. Approximately 12,000 of the databases's 3.3 million features are updated monthly with names and information approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing Directories Geography Departments Worldwide 815 departments in sixty-nine countries are accessible through this site, over five hundred searchable by country, keyword, and fields of research.