Florida International University Libraries

Internet Resources for
"Geography and Earth Sciences"

Physical Geography

  • CSC Earth Science Server The Center for Scientific Computing, a Finnish Publisher provides links to many areas in physical geography.
  • Internet resources in the Earth Sciences A general directory site provided by the Uni. of Californa at Berkeley's Library. It provides links to all areas of the earth sciences.
  • Landscape Ecology & Biogeography
  • On-Line Resources for Earth Scientistis (ORES)

    The 3 S in the world of earth science -- GIS(Geographic Information Systems), GPS (Ground Point System) and RS (Remote Sensing)

  • GeoWeb for GIS/GPS/RS
  • Spatial data resource list an alphabetical list of many GIS/GPS/RS sites with brief abstracts.

    Journals, publications

  • Geography Resources: Electronic Journals University of Texas at Austin Geography site with links to journals on the web.
  • Journal of geographic Information and Decision Analysis (JGIDA) Peer-reviewed, geographic information-based decision analysis.
  • Journal of GeographyFull text of the current issue.
  • GIS World Full-texted journal on GIS.

    Maps with statistical, factual data

  • Tiger Map Server You can ask for a map of your neighborhood and the 1990 census data which covers detail demographic information at the zip code level. You can also retrieve Tiger/Line files from here.
  • U.S. Census Bureau All the census publications are here -- reports, data files, which covers from population and housing to construction to economics data. All these tabular data in .dbf format can be used with GIS systems.
  • Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) A government site with links to various geospatial data sources: federal, state, university, foreign, commercial, and others.
  • CIA World Factbook 1996 General factual data on all countries, with political boundary maps of all countries. Paper copies are available at Government Documents Dept. at FIU libraries.
  • United Nations' InfoNation More detailed information about socio-economic, demographic and environmental data on many countries.
  • Census Bureau's International Data Base More demographic and socio-economic information for all countries of the world.

    Historical maps -- rare stuff

  • Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library Historical maps provided by University of Georgia
  • Nautical Maps Berkeley's scanned images of nautical maps
  • Historical Maps of United States Perry - Castanieda Library's map collection at University of Texas at Austin
  • Historical Maps sites Duke University's Historical Maps site which contains links to many other!

    What have we here -- FIU Library Map collection and the GIS Lab

    FIU UP Library's Map collection is housed in the Government Documents Department, which is temporarily located on the 4th floor, but eventually on the 2nd floor after the completion of Library Construction. Except for the maps we receive from USGS, CIA, and other government agencies, a large portion of the maps are donations, which also means we don't have LUIS records for them, although there is a card catalog located down the hallway to the Gov. Docs Department's working office. The map collection, covering a wide range in terms of chronology and contents, is arranged by geographic entities (e.g. continents, countries, states, counties, etc.). The atlases, however, all have LUIS records and are shelved in the same area as maps. For any questions on locating maps and atlases, you can ask the staff at the Gov. Docs. Dept. Reference Desk, or call 348-2481.

    FIU UP Library also provides the FIU community with a state-of-art Geographic Information Systems (GIS) laboratory. Please click here for more information on using the lab: GISRSAL

    What else is out there! -- Yahoo's page for maps in Florida



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