Interesting links
Here you will find links to articles and sites which have an Arctic Focus. If you have any information or links you feel should be included here then please let us know at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
- The Arctic Portal A mapping component displaying and serving various spatial layers on the Arctic
- The World Resources Institute's Global Forest Watch (GFW) RussiaIn 2005 released a map of protected areas in Russia
- UNEP Arctic Environmental Atlas A map server with environmental information for the Arctic region
- UNEP.Net GEO Data PortalPortal to environmental data sets used by UNEP
- CAFFs Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map Download portal for various vegetation datsets
- UNEP GRID Arendal dataset collectionCollection of downloadable datasets. However not very recent (1990s)
- World Database on Protected Areas
- EOINET EU datasets on protected areas Extensive and good coverage of EU Arctic countries
- US National snow and ice data centre Wide variety of extensive datasets
- Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal (north of the Arctic Circle) Assessment Units From the US geological survey
- Arctic Research Mapping Application (ARMAP) -"Online tools and services in support of Arctic research
- Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Program - US National Science Foundation (pre-2008)
- The National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR's) Earth Observing Laboratory
- Spatial data and The Arctic Council
- Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for Scientific Research
- Arctic GIS mapping – (UArctic & UNEP GRID-Arendal) 23/01/08
- Recommendations for a Geographic Information Infrastructure to support Arctic research
