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Resource Servers


Scientific and Related Organisations

  • AFES - Association Francaise pour l'etude du sol; The French Soil Society
  • AGRIMINE - a mine of information for agriculture
  • AGSO - Australian Geological Survey Organisation
  • Amazing Environmental Organisation Webdirectory
  • Arab Studies Society, Land Research Centre
  • The Australian Natural Resources Altlas - NLWRA
  • BRGM - French Geological Survey
  • BRS - Australian Bureau of Rural Sciences- Murray-Darling Basin Soil Information
  • BBSRC - Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
  • BGS - British Geological Survey
  • BRE - Buildings Research Establishment
  • BSSS - British Soil Science Society
  • British Council
  • CanSIS - the Canadian Soil Information System
  • CEH - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
  • CCW - Countryside Council for Wales
  • Cherwell Scientific Ltd - creators of the ModelManager software tool
  • Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology - at Iowa State University
  • CIRAD - Centre de coopération internationale enrecherche agronomique pour le développement
  • COS - a web-based funding information system
  • Countryside Agency - working for people and places in rural England
  • CPRE - Council for the protection of Rural England
  • Cranfield University UK
  • Danish soil profiles - Danish soil profiles for 68 well-described soiltype profiles
  • DEFRA - UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
  • DFID - Department for International Development
  • DFT - UK Department for Transport
  • Direct Government - UK
  • EA - Environment Agency for England & Wales
  • EEA - European Environment Agency
  • Earthnet Service provided by the European Space Agency
  • EDL - Edinburgh Data Library, excellent data source for many environmental datasets
  • EN - English Nature. Government Agency championing wildlife conservation and natural features in England
  • ESRC - Economic and Social Research Council
  • EU-CORDIS - EU Community Research and Development Information Service
  • EU-LEX - EU Law
  • EU-OJ - Official EU Journal
  • EUROPA - EU Main Server
  • Foresight - UK Government - the future for science and technology
  • GI Gateway - United Kingdom Standard Geographic Base
  • GIS FAQ
  • GIS Information Server - at Bonn University, D.
  • GIS Yellow Pages
  • GIS World
  • Home Grown Cereals Authority - the recognised centre of excellence and leader in delivering a co-ordinated range of focused services which are essential to the profitability of the cereals and oilseeds industries.
  • Infoterra - formerly the National Remote Sensing Centre, UK
  • INRA - l'Institut national de la recherche agronomique
  • ITC - International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
  • IUSS - International Union of Soil Sciences
  • LINK - OST/DTI Collaborative Research programme (UK Government)
  • MLURI - Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, our sister organisation in Scotland
  • The National Trust - for places of historic interest  or natural beauty in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
  • Natural Resources and Environmental Management information
  • NERC - The Natural Environment Research Council
  • NF-2000 - BIOMAT Non-Food RTD EU projects dissemination Network
  • NFU - National Farmers Union
  • NGDF - National Geospatial Data Framework, improving knowledge and access to geo-information
  • NRCS - Natural Resources Conservation Service, US Federal Agency. Formerly the US Soil Conservation Service (SCS)
  • NSRI - National Soil Resources Institute, UK
  • NSRC - Network Startup Resource Center
  • Nuffield Foundation - independent funding charity
  • OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Open GIS Consortium - non profit-making organisation setting GIS standards
  • OST  - Office of Science and Technology (UK Government)
  • OS - Ordnance Survey, the UK national mapping agency
  • Royal Society - Founded in 1660, the Royal Society is the independent scientific academy of the UK, dedicated to promoting excellence in science
  • RSPB - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, working for a healthy environment rich in birds and wildlife
  • SEPA - Scottish Environment Protection Agency
  • SIGMA - OECD Sites noted of interest
  • SMI - Soil management Initiative
  • SSSA - Soil Science Society of America
  • STW - Severn Trent Water Ltd, co-sponsors of the (CatchIS - Catchment Information System) project
  • TAA - Tropical Agriculture Association
  • United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
  • USGS -United States Geological Survey 
  • UK Water Industries Research body (UKWIR)
  • Water UK - representing the UK water industry
  • WRC - Water Research Centre plc.

Training Resources


Information and Service Providers

  • Cartographic resources - at George Mason University, USA
  • CHEST - Combined Higher Education Software Team
  • Geosphere Project - new ways of looking at the world
  • GI Gateway - Metadata Service data locator (formerly 'Askgiraffe')
  • GISL - consultancy group specialising in natural resource applications and GIS datasets
  • GRIME - what more can be said! (GIS tools)
  • IGGI - Intra-governmental Group on Geographic Information
  • Farmers Weekly Interactive - the authoritative reference for the whole agricultural industry
  • Geoplan - Information providers to the GIS industry
  • Meteorological Office - UK Meteorological Office
  • NRCS - access, analyse, download, and report on the various US national soils databases
  • NISS - Information for education
  • Philip's - George Philip Limited; Maps, Atlases and Reference Books
  • Weather Services International - International weather data

Technology Organisations

  • APIC sa. - GIS provider
  • Autodesk
  • ERDAS - Geographic Imaging and GIS software
  • ESRI UK - GIS provider (UK Office) & data store
  • ESRI - GIS provider (US Office)
  • ESRIViews - Official User Group for ESRI (UK) products and services
  • MAPINFO - GIS software supplier
  • PCI - GIS software including EASI/PACE, ACE, SPANS Pro, OrthoEngine

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