Department of Geography Spatial Applications Research Center (SpARC)
Internet Mapping Resource and Data Portal
This portal provides access to various data downloads and Internet Mapping Services. If you plan to use bookmarks, bookmark this page rather than the individual site pages as those will likely migrate to different servers. The portal page will be the most reliable form of access to the online interactive mapping sites.
To access map services and data folders you must be provided with a logon and password. To obtain this information please contact the GIS Coordinator at zle83@nmsu.edu or (505) 646-5755.
WARNING: The map server requires a high speed connection. If you have a 56K or slower connection, maps could take several minutes to load.
Projects:
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NMDA NOXIOUS WEED ONLINE REPORTING GIS PROJECT
The NMDA GIS data will be provided to SpARC in a statewide spatial database containing approximately 13 cooperative reporting sub-regions. Each sub-region has or will have one dedicated coordinator and each sub-region will be clearly defined prior to SpARC's acquisition. Players involved include the Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCD), Conservation System (NRCS), and possibly, county employees. In the future, the goal is to incorporated broader groups or players such as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), United States Forest Service (USFS), and other resource management agencies.
»NMDA Noxious Weeds Form Entry Page
The primary goal of this project is to produce an interactive web mapping application for NMDA where users can enter location and attribute data for noxious weeds throughout the State. The following link takes you to the web mapping application:
»NMDA Noxious Weeds Web Mapping Application
New Mexico Soil and Water Conservation Commission (SWCC) - Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) Data Download
The link below provides one with the existing GIS data for the following basins (units): (1) Rio Grande Basin, (2) Canadian River Basin, (3) Pecos River Basin, and the (4) Coyote Canyon Region. The data specifically include salt cedar (tamarix) inventory, various spray files (areas where the invasive species have been sprayed or treated), hydrologic data (streams, rivers, reservoirs, dams, canals/acequias, drains/wasteways, etc.), and imagery for the various basins. These data provide the initial layers for the implementation of the Non-native Phreatophte/Watershed Management Plan.
USDOT/SCT/ICT Border Geographic Information System II
The Binational GIS Data portal and web mapping application is designed to help you discover and map binational transportation data. Using ESRI's ArcGIS Server software, this tool can locate and display binational transportation routes, five major US-Mexico port of entries and their landuse classifications. It will be continuously updated as data is created by both US and Mexico participants.
Watershed Restoration Action Strategy (WRAS)
The WRAS Map Server is a short term pilot project that aims to display geographic characteristics of the Lower Rio Grande watershed and related data. These data include pollutant sources, physical landscape features, land use and population characteristics and waterbody conditions. The WRAS Data may eventually be moved to a common Map Server such as the NMDA Map Server.
Paso del Norte Watershed Council Coordinated Water Resource Database
The Binational GIS Data Viewer is a mapping tool designed to help you discover and map the Paso del Norte Watershed data. Using ESRI's ArcIMS software, this tool can locate and display water well information for the Paso del Norte Watershed.
»Paso del Norte Watershed Data Viewer
Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP) & NMSU
The Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy has provided funds to NMSU researchers to develop a framework by which geo-spatial data of interest in the U.S.-Mexico border region can be served on the Internet to interested parties. The Project specifically is tasked to develop an information management system that can serve the needs of both developers and users of geographic data required for addressing water and other natural resource problems in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Specific objectives/outcomes achieved are: 1) a needs assessment of the types of applications and geographic data required to help solve transboundary water problems; 2) inventory of data sets that are currently available; 3) a gap analysis between the data that are needed and those that are available; 4) a binational set of data standards based on existing national and international standards; and 5) recommendations on the proposed characteristics, management, and coordination of a comprehensive U.S.-Mexico border GIS. One of these outcomes is a Water Resources GIS data node that can be found at the following link:
»Water Resources GIS Data Node
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