Seamless raster base-map of Europe 2000 now available on the Baltic GIS Portal
Gedas Vaitkus <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gis.freegis |
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| Organization | Institute of Ecology |
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Dear free-GISers, It's my pleasure to inform you that a seamless raster base-map of Europe (ETRS90_LAEA CRS, 14.25 m pixel resolution), created on the basis of USGS Landsat GeoCover 2000 (USGS Global Land Cover Facility) has been recently published on-line at the Baltic GIS Portal (http://gis.ekoi.lt) at the Institute of Ecology in Vilnius, Lihuania . Registered users can download the 250x250 km tiles compressed into ECW format without any limitations and totally free of charge. The easiest way to get the images you need is to use the overview map (http://gis.ekoi.lt/data/rs/glcf_lsm_2000_laea/glcf_lsm_2000_europe.html). The Baltic GIS Portal also offers a historical collection of ~400 original Landsat ETM/TM/MSS images covering the Baltic Sea drainage basin (including St. Peterburg and Kaliningrad regions of Russia and Byelorus) processed into ERDAS Imagine format from the original scenes published by GLCF at the FTP server of the University of Maryland (ftp://ftp.glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/glcf/Landsat/WRS2). A series of seamless GIS data coverages of Europe are currently under processing and will be uploaded at the Portal soon. Go to http://gis.ekoi.lt , register (this is only need to limit the traffic to the category of "real" users), and drag down the European GIS/Satellite data of your interest. Enjoy Free GIS! Gedas Vaitkus GIS Group, Institute of Ecology Akademijos 2, 08412 Vilnius, Lithuania -- BALTIC GIS PORTAL -- http://GIS.EKOI.LT -- PUBLIC GIS DATA OF EUROPE -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.