dr.ir. M.G.P. van Veller (Marco)
Information Specialist Faculty ITC
G. de Jonge MSc (Grietha)
Information Specialist Faculty ITC
Welcome to the Subject Guide Geo-information Science and Earth Observation/ ITC Faculty. This subject guide will give you access to the most important information resources for Geosciences and contributes as such to the effectiveness of the education and the research. For any questions concerning these information resources you may contact the information specialists for Geosciences.
- Literature databases
- Reports
- African Development Bank Group (Reports and other documents)
- Enterprise Surveys (Reports and data)
- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (Reports)
- International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (Repository: articles, reports, theses)
- International Water Management Institute (IWMI) (Articles, reports, preprints, books)
- ISRIC World Soil Information (Reports and maps)
- OECD Library (Reports and data)
- OICRF (Articles, reports, preprints, books)
- United Nations Digital Library (Reports and maps)
- Worldbank Open Repository (Reports and journals)
- Worldbank Reports (Reports)
- Other sources
- African Journals Online (Journals)
- EarthArXiv (Preprints)
- In Planning (Journals, books, education)
- Landportal (Data)
- Data and maps
- FAO (Data)
- GeoDataWarehouse (Maps)
- ISRIC World Soil Information (Maps, reports and books)
- Knowledge Economy Index (Data)
- Nationaal Georegister (Data)
- OpenGeoHub (Data)
- United Nations Digital Library (Reports and maps)
- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) (Data)
- USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC) (Data)
- World Bank Data Catalog (Data)
- World Bank Open Data (Data)
- Dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia of Geobiology (ebook, 2011)
- Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs: Structure, Form and Process (ebook, 2011)
- Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers: (ebook, 2011)
- Encyclopedia of Soil Science (ebook, 2008)
- Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics (ebook, 2011)
- Extreme Environmental Events: Complexity in Forecasting and Early Warning (ebook, 2011)
- Geospatial dataportals
- The Open Data portal based on ArcGIS Hub technology
This portal’s simple “what” and “where” interface is the entry point to a vast, curated, and growing list of valuable open data sites, along with a helpful story map. - The Esri Living Atlas of the World
The Esri Living Atlas of the World is an expanding, curated set of data and maps on thousands of topics that can be used and also contributed to by the GIS community. - ESA Sentinel Online Data
The European Space Agency’s Sentinel Online data portal includes a wide variety of image-related data sets on the five themes of land, marine, atmosphere, emergency, and security - CIENSIS at Columbia University
CIESIN at Columbia University has been serving data for over 20 years on climate, population, soil, econonics, land use, biodiversity, and other themes, including its Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). - The Atlas of the Biosphere
The Atlas of the Biosphere serves global data, largely in grid format, of human impact, land use, ecosystems, and water resources themes. - Natural Earth
Natural Earth is a public domain dataset at small scale (1:10,000,000, 1:50,000,000, and 1:110,000,000) for the globe, in vector and raster formats that are easily ingestible in GIS software. - World Resources Institute
The World Resources Institute hosts a variety of data geospatial data sets for specific areas of the world, such as Kenya and Uganda. - The FAO GeoNetwork
This portal contains global to regional scale data from administrative boundaries and agriculture to soils, population, land use, and water resources. - OpenTopography
This NSF data facility from UC San Diego focuses on “Earth science-related, research-grade, topography and bathymetry data”, including a mountain-load of Lidar data. - OpenStreetMap
the project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. We started it because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive,
[Source: Kerski, J. (2019). The Top 10 Most Useful Geospatial Data Portals, Revisited. Accessed 11 May 2022]
- The Open Data portal based on ArcGIS Hub technology
- UT/ITC output
- Writing assistance
- Reference Management
- LaTeX
LaTeX is a specific document preparation system that allows for high-quality typesetting and is especially useful for technical and scientific documentation.
For use within ITC, there are two manuals available for your MSc or PhD thesis
- You can download the ITC LaTeX package via the ITC software manager and use it on your laptop. This will allow you to work on LaTeX projects offline. This installation will include the MSc and PhD thesis templates (made by Rolf de By).
- There are also slightly different templates available for ITC MSc and PhD theses to use in Overleaf (with an institutional login available). You can use such a template by following these instructions:
- PhD template: Clone the template found here. The clone will be your own project. It includes a readme file and the manual.
- MSc template: Clone the template found here. And continue using that clone for your project.
Find more information on The LaTeX project website https://www.latex-project.org/.
Referencing with LaTeX
For information on referencing in LaTeX you can consult this page.
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