resourcE center

Title:

Global GRASS Digital Datasets

Source:

Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis, Cook College
Box 231, College Farm Road
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
908-932-9631

Description:

These datasets contain a portion of the global dataset developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL), Environmental Laboratory. It was originally developed to provide an in-house capability to evaluate environmental sensitivity anywhere in the world but is now being distributed by the Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis in cooperation with CERL. There are 3 CDROMS that currently make up the distributed global dataset and CGRER has volumes 1 and 2.

The data is intended for use with the GRASS geographic information system although it could be reformatted for other uses. The files on the CDROMs are stored in uncompressed, flat format and can be accessed directly from GRASS.

The format of every data layer is exactly the same. The spatial resolution of all map layers is 4 minutes, 48 seconds.