Appendix B: Internet Resources

The NACIS website for this article
http://www.nacis.org/cp/cp45/shelton/index.html

Satellite images

NASA “Blue Marble” (free)
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

Landsat images of the World (free)
https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/mrsid.pl

NASA MODIS (free)
http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/index.php#

The Living Earth (commercial)
http://livingearth.com/

Worldsat International, Inc. (commercial)
http://www.worldsat.ca/

Land cover data

University of Maryland, Global Land Cover Facility, MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields (free)
http://modis.umiacs.umd.edu/vcfdistribution.htm

USGS National Land Cover Dataset (free)
http://landcover.usgs.gov/natllandcover.asp
http://seamless.usgs.gov/

USGS Global Land Cover  (free)
http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/glcc/glcc.html

European Commission Global Land Cover (free)
http://www.gvm.jrc.it/glc2000/Products/fullproduct.asp

Boston University Global Land Cover (free)
http://duckwater.bu.edu/lc/mod12q1.html

GAP Analysis Program (free)
http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/Projects/FTP.htm

Elevation data

NOAA ETOPO2 Worldwide Bathymetry (free)
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/2minrelief.html

USGS GTOPO30 Global Topographic Data (free)
http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/gtopo30.html

SRTM - Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (free)
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm//pub_dist.htm

Artist/Cartographers

Tóth Graphix Cartographic Art Studio
http://www.tothgraphix.com/

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