- Department of the Environment (DMA) (Generalitat de Catalunya)
http://www.gencat.es/mediamb
- MiraMon is the desktop GIS in all DMA (Central Services, Territorial
Delegations, etc).
- The MMZ format is used to publish cartography in Internet; this implementation
win the special mention of the 8 Möbius International Award, in Paris,
to the best application in Science and Technology in Internet in the year
2000 (http://www.gencat.es/mediamb/sig/premimobius.htm).
- More than 270 bases of information in May 2001, and more are continuously
added to http://www.gencat.es/mediamb/sig.
It is distributed at no cost in MMZ format in Internet. · Organization
of the GIS of the General Direction of Natural Patrimony.
- Maps of weather alert (Risk Meteorological situations) published
daily in the web page of the Catalonia Weather Service. They are generated
automatically with MiraMon. They are freely accessible in the Internet.
http://www.gencat.es/servmet/smr/index.htm
- Water Catalan Agency (ACA)
http://www.gencat.es/aca
- The ACA chose MiraMon as its GIS after evaluate several alternatives.
- System of monitoring of stations and control of water in real time.
- Remote Sensing: Adquisition and geometric and radiometric process of
all Landsat images acquired over Catalonia during 2002.
- GIS of the Garrotxa County Council
- Involved participants: Natural Park of the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone, Cartographic
Institute of Catalonia, Department of the Environment and the Center for
Ecological Research and Forestry Applications.
- Agriculture, Stockbreeding and Fishing Department (DARP) (Generalitat
of Catalunya)
http://www.gencat.net/darp/C/PESCAMAR/sigpesca/CSIG25.htm
- Coastal and maritime GIS. More than 20 maps published. It is distributed
at no cost in MMZ format in the Internet.
- Cartography in Mercator projection and UTM with correct calculations
of distances and areas over the ellipsoid.
- Digitizing of nautical charts. Determination of the batimetries based
on direct measurements.
- GPS navigation in real time allowing to show and determine the position
on the maps.
- Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. Digital Climatic Atlas of Catalonia
https://www.uab.cat/atles-climatic
- Publication of the 70 sheets of the new Digital Climatic Atlas of Catalonia.
maximum, minimum, and average air temperatures; precipitation; solar radiation.
It's distributed at no cost in MMZ format in the Internet.
- It will be published soon in CD-ROM thanks to the support of the Catalonian
Weather Service
- Institute of Andorran Studies (IEA) (Government of Andorra)
http://www.iea.ad/cbd/MCSA/index2.html
- Map of land use and land cover basen on ortHophotos and topographical
1:5000 maps (18000 polygons). It's distributed at no cost in MMZ format
in the
Internet (also the topographical 1:5000 is distributed). · Digital
Elevation Model with 5m resolution, generated with the MiraMon interpolation
software.
- European Topic Center Of Terrestrial Environment
- The European Commission has the European Agency of Environment subdivided
in topic centers.
- The Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona has the European Topic Center
on Terrestrial Environment (ETCTE), also devoted to coasts. ·
Generation of the new CORINE 2000 based on satellite present images.
- The ETCTE uses MiraMon for several tasks.
- The Center for Ecological Research and forestry applications (CREAF)
https://www.creaf.uab.cat/mcsc/index.htm
- 305 sheets of land cover and soil maps of Catalonia in 1:10000 scale.
All Catalonia with polygons at least 500 square meters!, more than 700000
polygons, etc. It is distributed at no cost in MMZ format in the Internet.
- Land cover map of Catalonia at 10 m resolution (in beta phase); can be
seen with only a web browser without any other software (it is not necessary
to
install any plug-in, not even the MiraMon Map Reader).
- Ecological and Forestal Inventory of Catalonia (IEFC).
- University of Virginia. LUCC.
http://miombo.gecp.virginia.edu/cd
- Near 600 Mbyte of cartographic and alphanumeric bases of several kind
from the Miombo African zone and, in some cases, from the whole Africa
or the
entire world. It's distributed at no cost in MMZ format in the Internet.
- City hall of Barcelona
http://www.mediambient.bcn.es/cat/mapa/MEB/Index.htm
- Ecological maps from the city in 1:10000 scale from the years 1977,
1993 and comparative. It's distributed at no cost in MMZ format in the
Internet.
Last review 28-june-2002
Old version: 21-nov-2000
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