Links

Agriculture and GIS related links

Iowa Geospatial Data Clearinghouse

Search for Iowa Geospatial data.

USDA Geospatial Data Gateway

The Geospatial Data Gateway or Geo-Data Gateway provides easy and consistent access to natural resource data. You can search for available data by geographic area such as county or state, use our point and click map tool to find your area of interest; using a gazetteer, or by entering latitude and longitude coordinates. You can also search for data by theme, such as digital ortho imagery, digital elevation models (DEMs), or soils. You can then view a thumbnail, or sample of the data you've chosen to know if you want a copy of the data. If you do, you can either download the data directly onto your machine, pick it up via our FTP site, or order it on media such as CD.

Soil Viewer

Soil Data Viewer is a tool built as an extension to ArcView ® that allows you to easily create soil-based thematic maps. . . . It provides an easy to use tool for geospatial analysis of soil information for resource assessment and management. (Accessed 11/2005)

Soil Data Mart

Soils is part of the National Cooperative Soil Survey, an effort of Federal and State agencies, universities, and professional societies to deliver scientifically based soil information. (Accessed 11/2005)

Aerial Photography Field Office

The Aerial Photography Field Office, Farm Service Agency is the primary source of aerial imagery for the United States Department of Agriculture. Over 10,000,000 images are held here. The imagery dates begin with 1955 to the present. (Accessed 11/2005)

Practical Farmers of Iowa

Fostering profitable, ecologically sound, and community enhancing approaches to agriculture.