CROPSYST -- Cropping Systems
Simulation Model. Free, but you need to register to obtain a copy. CROPWAT -- A computer
program for irrigation planning and management CLIMWAT -- A Climatic
Database for CROPWAT EPIC
- Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator -- Crop model from the Texas
A&M Blackland Research Center Century Model (Colorado State
University) -- A general model of the plant-soil nutrient cycle which is
being used to simulate carbon and nutrient dynamics for different types of
ecosystems including grasslands, agricultural lands, forests and savannas.
Other FAO and FEWS Software
COKIRGING -- FAO
Software for the spatial interpolation of agro-climatic data AGMAN -- Famine
Early Warning System (FEWS) agricultural database manager (FEWS). It is designed
to facilitate the archiving, analysis, and presentation of agricultural
production data. Its capabilities include the organization and storage of
essential agricultural production statistics for any given reporting unit, crop,
or time period. Data are available for the following countries: Burkina Faso,
Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, Zambia,
Zimbabwe. RAINMAN -- FEWS's
method for compiling and updating a dekadal (10-day) rainfall database. With
current and historical dekadal rainfall data, RAINMAN can produce graphs,
charts, and tables of averages, accumulations, comparisons, and estimations of
rainfall, which can be viewed on the screen, captured in a file, or printed as
hardcopy. Data are available for the following countries: Burkina Faso, Chad,
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Sudan, Uganda,
Zambia, Zimbabwe. PRICEMAN -- FEWS's
price management, analysis, and presentation software program. It allows quick
graphic presentation of prices so that current prices can be visualized and
compared to recent and previous years. Data are available for the following
countries: Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali,
Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia,
Zimbabwe. NETMAN -- FEWS's
integrated Internet version of SPACEMAN and PRICEMAN. It is designed to
facilitate the analysis and presentation of data without requiring the user to
manage the underlying data. It offers the same analysis capabilities as the
desktop versions of SPACEMAN and PRICEMAN, but the data reside in a centralized
database at the EROS Data Center, and analysis and results are provided via the
Internet. SPACEMAN -- FEWS's
image statistics data manager. It is designed to facilitate the archiving,
analysis, and presentation of image statistics data. Its capabilities include
the organization, storage and analysis of image statistics over a period of
time. The software is applicable to any time series image data (e.g., NDVI,
RFE).
GIS and Spatial Iamge Analysis Software
ArcExplorer from
ESRI GrADS - GRid Analysis and
Display System -- The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is an
interactive desktop tool that is used for easy access, manipulation, and
visualization of earth science data. GrADS has been implemented worldwide on a
variety of commonly used operating systems and is freely distributed over the
Internet MetaLite --
MetaLite is a simple tool for collecting and validating Federal Geographic Data
Committee (FGDC) compliant metadata. It allows the user to quickly document
geospatial data while still adhering to FGDC Metadata Content Standards
