Description: The World Port Index (Pub 150) contains the location and physical characteristics of, and the facilities and services offered by major ports and terminals world-wide (approximately 3700 entries), in a tabular format. Entries are organized geographically, in accordance with the diagrams located in the front of the publication.
Service Item Id: 824b66d5d71243e1b3a98dd37179dd79
Copyright Text: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Description: The World Port Index (Pub 150) contains the location and physical characteristics of, and the facilities and services offered by major ports and terminals world-wide (approximately 3700 entries), in a tabular format. Entries are organized geographically, in accordance with the diagrams located in the front of the publication.
Service Item Id: 824b66d5d71243e1b3a98dd37179dd79
Copyright Text: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Description: The World Port Index (Pub 150) contains the location and physical characteristics of, and the facilities and services offered by major ports and terminals world-wide (approximately 3700 entries), in a tabular format. Entries are organized geographically, in accordance with the diagrams located in the front of the publication.
Service Item Id: 824b66d5d71243e1b3a98dd37179dd79
Copyright Text: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Description: The World Port Index (Pub 150) contains the location and physical characteristics of, and the facilities and services offered by major ports and terminals world-wide (approximately 3700 entries), in a tabular format. Entries are organized geographically, in accordance with the diagrams located in the front of the publication.
Service Item Id: 824b66d5d71243e1b3a98dd37179dd79
Copyright Text: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Description: The World Port Index (Pub 150) contains the location and physical characteristics of, and the facilities and services offered by major ports and terminals world-wide (approximately 3700 entries), in a tabular format. Entries are organized geographically, in accordance with the diagrams located in the front of the publication.
Service Item Id: 824b66d5d71243e1b3a98dd37179dd79
Copyright Text: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Description: The OpenFlights Airport, Airline and Route Databases are made available under the Open Database License. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License. In short, these mean that you are welcome to use the data as you wish, if and only if you both acknowledge the source and and license any derived works made available to the public with a free license as well.
Description: The OpenFlights Airport, Airline and Route Databases are made available under the Open Database License. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License. In short, these mean that you are welcome to use the data as you wish, if and only if you both acknowledge the source and and license any derived works made available to the public with a free license as well.
Description: The OpenFlights Airport, Airline and Route Databases are made available under the Open Database License. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License. In short, these mean that you are welcome to use the data as you wish, if and only if you both acknowledge the source and and license any derived works made available to the public with a free license as well.
Description: The OpenFlights Airport, Airline and Route Databases are made available under the Open Database License. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License. In short, these mean that you are welcome to use the data as you wish, if and only if you both acknowledge the source and and license any derived works made available to the public with a free license as well.
Description: The OpenFlights Airport, Airline and Route Databases are made available under the Open Database License. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License. In short, these mean that you are welcome to use the data as you wish, if and only if you both acknowledge the source and and license any derived works made available to the public with a free license as well.
Description: Geo-referenced dams database
AQUASTAT gathers detailed information about dams in each country during country update processes. AQUASTAT’s data was an important input into the Global Reservoirs and Dams (GRanD) database, especially for African dams. The work on this database was coordinated by the Global Water System Project, in partnership with several organizations. An article has been published in 2011 in the Journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Service Item Id: 824b66d5d71243e1b3a98dd37179dd79
Copyright Text: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Description: Data for power plants with total installed generating capacity > 10 mw from the Platts World Electric Power Plants Database (WEPP 2006). Plants were georeferenced using location information from the WEPP, auxiliary GIS datasets, World Bank project documents and the internet. Locations are approximate, precision varies greatly by point, based on the source of coordinate information.
The following attributes are included:
PLANT: power plant name,
STATUS: status (OPR, CON, PLN, OTHER, UNK),
SUM_MW: total installed generating capacity,
LATITUDE: approximate location, latitude,
LONGITUDE: approximate location, longitude,
GEN_TYPE: type of electricity generation (HYDRO, THERMAL, OTHER)
Description: Greg's Cable Map is an attempt to consolidate all the available information about the undersea communications infrastructure. The initial data was harvested from Wikipedia, and further information was gathered by simply googling and transcribing as much data as possible into a useful format, namely a rich geocoded format. I hope you find the resource useful and any constructive criticism is welcome.A mate of mine did an article on it on his South African Tech site, Check it out if you want more background info.
Description: 33 corridor segments from Table 1 of the paper. The file shows the linear corridor features (roads and rails etc) that were buffered to create the file above. Fields in the corresponding .dbf file are as above.
Service Item Id: 824b66d5d71243e1b3a98dd37179dd79
Copyright Text: Laurance, W.F.; Sloan, S.; Weng, L.; Sayer, J. Estimating the environmental costs of Africa’s massive ‘development corridors'. Current Biology In Press.
Description: 33 corridor segments from Table 1 of the paper, buffered by 25km on either side of the corridor (road or rail etc.). The data fields of the corresponding .dbf file (included; you can view in it Excel if not ArcGIS) are fairly self-explanatory: ‘status’ is as per Table 1 of the paper; ‘label’ is as per Figure 3 of the paper; ‘pc_settl’ is the percentage area of each buffer zone that is settled, as indicated by nightlights, as described in the paper; ‘poly_area’ is the area (in m2) of each buffer zone; ‘green’ and ‘red’ are respectively the data defining the environmental value and agricultural potential columns from Table 1 of the paper, which re-scale these data, as described in paper.
Service Item Id: 824b66d5d71243e1b3a98dd37179dd79
Copyright Text: Laurance, W.F.; Sloan, S.; Weng, L.; Sayer, J. Estimating the environmental costs of Africa’s massive ‘development corridors'. Current Biology In Press.
Description: Goals:
To limit the environmental impacts of roads on Earth’s biodiversity, native ecosystems, and wilderness areas
To focus construction of new roads and road improvements where they will have the greatest social and economic benefits
To assist environmental managers to better plan and prioritize roads
To educate the general public about the environmental risks of poorly planned roads and transportation projects
Key facts about roads:
The 21st century is seeing an unprecedented expansion of roads
At least 25 million kilometers of new roads are expected worldwide by 2050—enough to circle the Earth over 600 times
90% of all road construction is occurring in developing nations, including many regions with exceptional biodiversity and vital ecosystem services
Roads penetrating into Earth’s remaining wildernesses are a major driver of habitat loss and fragmentation, wildfires, overhunting, and other environmental degradation
Much road construction is chaotic or poorly planned
Not all roads are environmentally detrimental
Roads or road improvements in areas where most native vegetation has already been removed, and where farming yields are low, can help to improve agriculture and local livelihoods with limited environmental costs