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Land Use
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 Land Use Web Site
This
web site brings all information about products, services, web
mapping, work team and information resources of the CIAT Land Use
Project.
http://gisweb.ciat.cgiar.org/sig/inicio_es.htm |
 FloraMapTM
This
computer tool predicts the geographic distribution, or areas of
possible adaptation, of natural organisms when little or nothing is
known of their detailed physiology. FloraMap thus cuts much of the
guesswork, legwork, and costs typically involved in tracking down
species of plants and other organisms in the wild. The Windows
application is especially useful to plant breeders, who increasingly
look to wild species as a source of new genetic material. It is
based on the assumption that the climatic characteristics of sites
where the species has already been collected are a good indicator of
its environmental range.
http://www.floramap-ciat.org/
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 MarkSimR
One of
the most important considerations in dry land agriculture is risk.
Is the rain going to arrive, and how much, and when? Process
modeling is one of the best tools for evaluating this risk; but in
order to do this, process modelers need accurate daily weather data.
For the tropics, these hardly exist; if they do, they are very
difficult to collect and the stations that collect them are very
sparse. MarkSim fills in this gap by using a third-order Markov
model that runs off interpolated climate surfaces. MarkSim users are
crop modelers and agronomists evaluating the potential risks of
crops and cropping sequences. They go to MarkSim where, onscreen,
they can point at the map or enter coordinates for anywhere in the
world and get simulated weather data (rainfall, maximum and minimum
temperature, and solar radiation), all in the form ready to run a
crop simulation model. They can simulate as many years of data as
they like, run their models or the water balance, or use the data
however they like to evaluate the risk of growing a rainfed crop.
MarkSim is the result of 25 years of research in CIAT. The climate
surfaces use data from over 20,000 climate stations; the MarkSim
model is calibrated with daily weather data from 11,000 weather
stations.
http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/catalogo/producto.jsp?codigo=P0220
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 Latin America and Caribbean Population
Database
The
contents of this gridded population database can be displayed as
maps using any standard geographic information system (GIS) computer
program. The data were derived from more than 16,000 administrative
units in the region. Census data, combined with historical
population growth rates, were used to project population values
backwards for 1990, 1980, 1970, and 1960. This allows users to
visualize changes in population distribution over the past four
decades. Included with the data are an explanatory report and
metadata (data about the data). The database was produced by CIAT
and partners as part of an international effort to map population
distribution for the developing regions of the world.
http://gisweb.ciat.cgiar.org/population/
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 90m
SRTM Data for the Tropics
With
the release of the new National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) topography data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
(SRTM) a new era of spatial analysis is upon us. Topography is a
fundamental factor in defining water availability, local climate,
soil type, and light receipt, and is therefore a key factor in any
agricultural or environmental spatial research. The Land Use Project
has just finished processing the data for Asia, Latin America, the
Pacific Islands, Europe, and North America, and is offering these
data upon request for institutions or projects involved in
international development. We have also made some preliminary
analyses of data quality within the context of the tropics, showing
that the SRTM data are potentially of great value to globalizing
site-specific research.
http://gisweb.ciat.cgiar.org/sig/90m_data_tropics.htm
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 Atlas of Honduras (with Data on Hurricane
Mitch)
This
electronic Atlas is a valuable analytical tool for facilitating
decision making. It contains ample biophysical information on
Honduras, generated by satellite imaging, and, together with census
information, allows relating social and environmental variables in a
simple and interactive manner through maps. To help support
reconstruction and planning, the Atlas includes information on the
impact of Hurricane Mitch, which brought destruction to the country
in late 1998. The Atlas presents more than 100 themes related to
administrative divisions (departments, municipalities, village
districts, and hamlets); land use since 1986; soils, geology,
rivers, watersheds, and biodiversity (rain forests, mangroves,
wetlands, and protected areas); routes and social data (population,
education, and poverty); and climate (minimum and maximum
temperatures and annual rainfall) and altitudes. The CD includes the
program ArcView 2.1 Data Publisher, together with installation
instructions. The information needed to develop this Atlas was
compiled with the assistance of different governmental institutions,
whose collaboration we gratefully acknowledge.
http://gisweb.ciat.cgiar.org/Mitch/
(in Spanish)
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 Theme 2: Water and People in catchments.
Enabling
efficient and equitable water use.
Challenge Program on Water and
Food
The
Program consists of 5 themes and at 12 benchmark sites. CIAT has
been nominated to lead Theme 2: Multiple Use of Upper Catchments.
The objective is to improve sustainable livelihoods for people who
live in, and downstream of, upper catchments through significant,
unambiguous improvements of water productivity. The CPWF
interlocking goals are to allow more food to be produced with the
same amount of water that is used in agriculture today, as
populations expand over the coming 20 years and, do this in a way
that decreases malnourishment and rural poverty, improves people's
health and maintains environmental sustainability from a research
perspective. CIAT leads one of the five thematic groups of the
CPWF.
http://gisweb.ciat.cgiar.org/wcp/
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 Accessibility Analyst
CIAT
programmed this simple and flexible GIS tool to automate the
creation of accessibility surfaces. Previously, these surfaces were
laboriously created, step-by-step, using ArcINFO software from the
Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). You can install the
Accessibility Analyst if you have the ESRI ArcView 3 software and
its ArcView Spatial Analyst. From this page, you can download the
extension and documentation, see case studies of the extension at
work, and follow up links with other people working in the same
field. CIAT donors generously funded the development of
Accessibility Analyst, in particular, the Ecoregional Fund to
Support Methodological Initiatives (managed by the International
Service for National Agricultural Research); Environmental Economics
and Indicators Unit of the World Bank; and the Regional Office for
Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Environment
Programme.
http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/access/
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 Indicators of Rural Sustainability
Users
of this CD-ROM, a geographical information tool, can select,
visualize, and analyze the sustainability indices and indicators
developed for Central America. CIAT designed this unique product,
using ArcView Data Publisher, a program that was adapted to enable
users intuitively find the 11 indices, 68 major indicators, and 114
complementary indicators that the CD details. The tool's functional
nature enables users to convert data into information, thus helping
to improve decision making in the region. This tool also offers
decision makers the opportunity of delineating the region's probable
future in terms of different scenarios based on the results of
simulation models of land use developed by the team who prepared the
CD. All indices and indicators come with technical notes. The CD,
available in Spanish, forms part of a packet of bilingual
(English/Spanish) products that includes case study reports and the
document Lessons Learned. Both are required reading for those who
wish to develop and use the indicators. This packet of tools for
indicators is free for Central American users (Costa Rica,
Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama). For other countries, we
charge a small fee of US$20 to cover packing and shipping
costs.
http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/indicators/
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 Dynamic Mapping of Food Security Problems in
Ecuador
Dynamic
Mapping of Food Security Problems in Ecuador is communication
strategy for disseminating methods and results from a project on
food security in Ecuador. This communication strategy includes the
development of an inter-institutional web site for publishing and
providing dynamic maps that represent the geographic dimensions of
food security in Ecuador. The site seeks to reach citizens,
students, researchers, analysts, and policy and decision makers.
This site is an extension of the activities of the Network of
Ecuadorian Food Security Project and other initiatives that work in
this field. The site contains publications and articles, links and
dynamic maps. It is expected that the information published here has
impact in the development of policies and initiatives directed to
the reducing hunger and poverty.
http://www.ecuamapalimentaria.info/
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 CONDOR v.2.0
CONDOR
is a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) tool for analyzing and
evaluating environmental impact of transportation infrastructure
projects in the Andean region. The project was developed to provide
a simple way to analyze transportation infrastructure from a
regional viewpoint. This tool combines information from experts from
the Andean region working on environmental, socioeconomic and
administrative issues.
http://206.48.89.54/
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 REDECO
- Ecoregional Network for Latin America
The
International Center for Tropical Agriculture's (CIAT) Ecoregional
Network for Latin America (REDECO) promotes information exchange
between governmental organizations, NGO's, networks and also between
individuals. At the same time, it publicizes research results
generated by CIAT, other national and international agricultural
research centers, and different individuals or groups that conduct
work related to natural resources management and conservation and
rural development. The Ecoregional Network was established in 1999
as part of the Ecoregrional Program for Latin America, a
collaboration between CIAT and its partners, and our clients. The
network supports efforts to make agricultural research results reach
end-users more effectively.
http://www.redeco.org/
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Land Use
ProjectE-mail: gis-communications@cgiar.org
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Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
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Cali-Palmira, Colombia
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