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Remote Sensing:

• MODIS products including LAI and fPAR at Boston University

• EOS Data Gateway-- Earth Observing System Data Gateway, search for and order earth science data products from NASA and affiliated centers

• USGS-EROS


U.S. Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation System, Data Center (EDC)

• Environmental Remote Sensing Center --- A site for Remote sensing resources. University of Wisconsin.

• MultiSpec --- A tool for for analyzing multispectral and hyperspectral image data. Purdue University.

• CCRS --The Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, is responsible for: receiving, processing, and archiving Earth observation data ...

GIS & Other spatial databases:

• ESRI
  Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
• PASDA data
  Pennsylvania Spatial Data
• NASS
  U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service
• GeoSource
  Web resources for human geography, physical geography, planning, geoscience and environmental science

SOC Modeling:

• DNDC -- Denitrification and Decomposition model. DNDC is a computer simulation model of carbon and nitrogen biogeochemistry in agro-ecosystems.

• CENTURY -- The CENTURY model is a general model of plant-soil nutrient cycling.

Soil Data Sources:

• Soil Survey data -- USDA NRCS soil survey maps and text, status maps, lab data, soil climate data, and GIS ready datasets (SSURGO, STATSGO).

• Soil Information for Environmental Modeling This Web site strives to provide soil information in understandable forms which can be used by non-soil scientists.

Climate Change:

• National Climate Data Center

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Soil Carbon Emission/Sequestration

• The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, which includes the World Data Center for Atmospheric Trace Gases, is the primary global-change data and information analysis center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

• CASMGS -- The consortium for agricultural soils mitigations of greenhouse gasses -is a consortium of nine universities and one National Laboratory assembled to investigate the potential of agricultural soils to mitigate greenhouse gases ... ...

• NCGAVS -- The National Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Emission Accounting and Verification System for Agricultural Land is a transparent and verifiable accounting system for estimating the amounts and uncertainties of soil carbon stock changes and GHG emissions at the provincial, regional, and national level...

• CSiTE -- The DOE consortium for research enhancing Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystem ... research to find ways to enhance the capture and long-term storage of CO2 in soil and vegetation...