Link Library for America's Farm

The Agricultural Research and Development Center at Mead, NE

Weather

Continental US Temperature, Precipitation and Soil Moisture
History of Climates
Current Weather
Agricultural Weather
Weather from Agriculture.com

Images

Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles for the United States
.......... A great tutorial for locating national DOQs
Space Images with maps, GPS, address ....(CARTERRA Archive)
Compressed Ortho Digital Quarters (NE)
USGS Homepage
USGS Earth Shots
Raster Quadrangle Maps
Tiger Files (1 degree x 1 degree ) - Omaha location - Sub in your lat-lon values.
Terraserver Satellite maps collected by MicroSoft Corporation
Virtual Nebraska Archives of Nebraska history, images and educational modules
A Prairie Fire in the Sandhills of Nebraska
CALMIT (Center for Advanced Land Management) <http://www.calmit.unl.edu/nebspace.html> and <http://www.calmit.unl.edu/calmit.html>
A valuable publication to have is "Nebraska Index to topographic and other Map Coverage" (NEBRASKA 40096-MI-99X) with a "Nebraska Map List". These two pieces of print material will be extremely valualbe to use in conjunction with the images, 'Compressed Digital Ortho Quarters'. Order from CALMIT.
Ohio & NASA LANDSAT Images <http://ltpwww.gsfc.NASA.gov/landsat7/teacherkit/index.html>

Way cool image sites:
A Tapestry of Time and Terrain. This is a geological site. Land forms rocks, etc. <http://tapestry.wr.usgs.gov/>
Earth from Space. This is a site of astronaut photos of earth. Extremely high res photos are available. <http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/>
NASA - JSC Digital Image Collection Home <http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/>
Photo Gallery from NASA really cool. <http://www.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/index.html>

A satellite view of the blackened area from the 17 March, 1999 prairie fire in Nebraska. The burn area covers 70,000 acres.

Tools for Image Processing

DataSlate by JPL
Additional Datasets from JPL
NIH Image by National Institutes of Health
SCION Image (NIH Image for PC)
TerraExplorer (check Mr Sid for Image Viewer)

Precision Agriculture

Remote Sensing Tutorial
Precision Agriculture: An Introduction Examining a field in Central Missouri
The Iowa State University Extension Office
CALMIT Nebraska Bureau of Land Management
Precision Farming

 Agricultural Calculators <http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators1.html#AGRI-LIVE-BUSI> LOTS of calculators for agri business.

Information Source 24/7 <http://cf.uwex.edu/ics/infosource/agriculture.cfm>

Statistics

 The Institute of Agricultural and Natural Resources

Links to agricultural tourism, national agriculture statistics, links to USDA and other important websites. <http://www.sfc.ucdavis.edu/ >
Nebraska Natural Resources Commission
<http://www.nrc.state.ne.us>
Nebraska Natural Resources Commission - Data Bank
<http://www.nrc.state.ne.us/databank/spat.html>