Environmental Sites: Natural Resources

• Life on the Brink
  Report by Rachel Hauser, from the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, DAAC Alliance, discussing the hazards of populations living close to volcanoes.
• Mainstream
  Publication from the north central division of the American Fisheries Society.
• Natural Resources: Planning and Interpretation 
  Excellent, comprehensive site prepared by Robert Santhrum, Natural Resources Librarian, Humboldt State University. Includes guide to planning literature, reference materials, library catalogs, indexes, Internet guides/portals/gateways, Environmental Impact Assessment, and Statistics & Data. 
• Spot 5 Mapping http://www.spotimage.com/home/ 
  Spot 5 was launched by the French Space Agency, CNES, on May 4, 2002 and has recently been moved into the same polar orbit as Spot 2 and Spot 4 at an altitude of 830 km. Spot 5 will provide high resolution imagery (5-m and 2.5-m panchromatic) with a swath of 60 km, beginning in approximately 2 months. Spot 5 also carries the VEGETATION instrument, designed for land cover mapping and monitoring at a resolution of 1 km. - SEDAC News, Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University. May 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 5)