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The Russian-English Agricultural Atlas is the world’s most comprehensive source of information on the geographic distribution of plant-based agriculture in Russia and neighboring countries. The Atlas contains 1500 maps that illustrate the distribution of 100 crops, 560 wild crop relatives, 640 diseases, pests and weeds, and 200 environmental parameters. Additionally, the Atlas provides detailed biological descriptions, illustrations, metadata and reference lists. Currently, individual maps can be downloaded and viewed using freely available AgroAtlas GIS Utility software, which can also be downloaded at this site. Fully functional AgroAtlas GIS software will be available at the site in March 2010.
First GIS school will start from September, 13 to September, 22 in Saint-Petersburg State University.
It is now possible to download the Agroatlas maps in GIS format. Vector maps of crops, their wild relatives and pests are in mid/mif format. Raster agroecological maps are in Idrisi (.rdc/.rst) format. The maps can be viewed with the Agroatlas viewer which can be downloaded from http://agroatlas.ru/en/downloads/. A Help Manual can also be downloaded. Because the map format is open, any GIS software can be used to view and analzye the maps.