Global GIS database. South Pacific [electronic resource]
Digital atlas of South Pacific
[by P. Hearn, Jr. ... [et al.]].
- Data only version
, Scale 1:1,000,000.
- [Flagstaff. AZ] USGS [2001?].
- 1 CD-ROM 4 3/4 in.
- U.S. Geological Survey digital data series DDS-62-D .
Title from disc label. "This data only CD contains just the GIS data layers from the original Global GIS series (DDS-62). The only layer removed, for proprietary reasons, is the Geologic Age layer created by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)"--ReadMe file. Datasets: Country Political Boundaries ; Administrative Boundaries ; Major Cities ; City Gazetteer ; Large Urban Areas (polygons) : Roads ; Railroads ; Utility Lines ; Airfields ; Geologic Province ; Faults ; Ecological Regions ; Perennial Rivers ; Small Rivers and Streams ; Springs, Wells, and Dams ; Drainage Basins ; River Basins ; Volcanoes ; Earthquakes ; Oil and Gas Fields ; US National Oil and Gas Assessment ; Mineral deposit and metallogenic belt maps ; Mines ; Elevation data ; Climate data ; Temperature, Precipitation, Potential and Actual Evapotranspiration, Cloud Coverage. Raster datasets: Shaded Relief ; Landcover ; Greennesss (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) images ; Population ; Lights at Night ; Slope 3 ; MODIS Blue Marble True-color Satellite Image ; Simulated Earth Image.
Contains a digital atlas of the countries of the South Pacific. This atlas is part of a global database compiled from USGS and other data sources at a nominal scale of 1:1 million, and is intended to be used as a regional-scale reference and analytical tool by government officials, researchers, the private sector, and the general public.
Scientists, academicians, and politicians.
PC with pentium processor; 24 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 34 hard disk space (600 recommended); Windows NT 4; Windows 2000; Windows 95/98/ME; ArcView Data Publisher 3.1; standard web browser.
Ecology--Maps--Databases.
South Pacific--Maps--Databases. South Pacific--Geology--Maps--Databases. South Pacific--Population--Maps--Databases.