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Subject: Atlas & geospatial data from UN Environment Programme
Date: Tues, 14 June Jun 2005
From: Chieko Maene <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum"
FYI - a beautiful and unique atlas from UNEP showing landscape changes
over time using satellite images, for example: Las Vegas 1973 & 2000.
BBC News story, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4607053.stm
(UNEP home) http://na.unep.net/
(UNEP atlas) http://na.unep.net/OnePlanetManyPeople/index.php
* Available for purchase and free download (PDF files).
Also some geospatial data available from UNEP.
(UNEP data) http://na.unep.net/datasets/datalist.php3
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Chieko Maene
Map Librarian
Government Documents, Maps and Microforms Department
Richard J. Daley Library
University of Illinois at Chicago
801 S. Morgan, M/C 234
Chicago, Illinois 60607 USA
(312) 996-2738
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