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Global Water Information through Spatial Data
and Knowledge gateways @ IWMI

Water Use Trends over Space and Time through
Global Maps, Statistics, and Models

The overarching goal of the Global Water Information is to produce a series of global water and water related maps, models, and statistics over space and time and link this information to climate change. The central idea is to develop a state-of-art global water information center (GWIC) that will study water use trends of the past, present, and the future and help us understand linkages between water use, land utilization for purposes such as irrigation, population growth, environmental demands, and sustainable growth. Overwhelming emphasis will be placed on use of spatial data from remote sensing and GIS (RS\GIS). read more...

CGIAR-CSI GeoNetwork : Online Geospatial Data dissemination Portal.

GeoNetwork is a standardized and decentralized spatial information management environment, designed to enable access to geo-referenced databases, cartographic products and related metadata from a variety of sources, enhancing the spatial information exchange and sharing between organizations and their audience, using the capacities of the internet. This approach of geographic information management aims at facilitating a wide community of spatial information users to have easy and timely access to available spatial data and to existing thematic maps that might support informed decision making. more...

CGIAR-CSI SRTM 90m DEM Digital Elevation Database

The CGIAR-CSI GeoPortal is able to provide SRTM 90m Digital Elevation Data for the entire world. The SRTM digital elevation data, produced by NASA originally, is a major breakthrough in digital mapping of the world, and provides a major advance in the accessibility of high quality elevation data for large portions of the tropics and other areas of the developing world. The SRTM digital elevation data provided on this site has been processed to fill data voids, and to facilitate it's ease of use by a wide group of potential users. This data is provided in an effort to promote the use of geospatial science and applications for sustainable development and resource conservation in the developing world. Digital elevation models (DEM) for the entire globe, covering all of the countries of the world, are available for download on this site. more...