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 some of the map services and data downloads, you must be provided with a logon and password. To obtain this information please contact the GIS Coordinator at sparc.nmsu@gmail.com or (575) 646-5755.
WARNING: The map server requires a high speed connection. If you have a slow connection, maps could take several minutes to load.
Projects:
- NMDA
- SWCC-TAP
- BGIS
- WRAS
- PDNWC Water Resource Database
- SCERP Hydrologic Modeling in the Paso Del Norte Region
- SCERP Data Node
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NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE GIS PROJECTS
NOXIOUS WEED ONLINE REPORTING
The NMDA GIS data will be provided to SpARC in a statewide spatial database containing 17 cooperative weed management areas (CWMAs). 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
NMDA NOXIOUS WEED & TREATMENT WEB MAPPING APPLICATION (WMA):
The purpose of this WMA is to illustrate all the different data layers relevant to the mission of NMDA's Agricultural and Environmental Services Division. These data layers are all "in progress" and will be augmented when the next round of funding comes through. Furthermore, our hope is to continue to customize and increase the functionality of the WMA.
Note: Occasionally the imagery will fail to load and you may need to clear your browser cache/history and load the page again.
Disclaimer: No warranty is made by NMDA or NMSU’s Geography Department as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these datasets or maps. This is an ongoing project where we'll continue to acquire relevant data layers.
Please send any comments or suggestions to sparc.nmsu@gmail.com.
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 U.S.-Mexico Joint Working Committee on transportation planning (JWC) is a binational group whose primary focus is to cooperate on land transportation planning along and across the U.S.-Mexico border and the facilitation of efficient, safe, and economical cross-border transportation movements. The group is comprised primarily of transportation professionals from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Mexican Secretariat of Communication and Transportation (SCT), staff within states departments of transportation in the U.S. and Mexico, and other federal officials in the U.S. and Mexico. In the last several years, the JWC, working through the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT), has contracted the Department of Geography and the Spatial Applications Research Center at New Mexico State University (NMSU) on the Border Infrastructure Needs Study and Binational GIS Project (BINS/BGIS). Project outcomes and products are hosted at this site and the linked web pages accessed from this site.
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, & UACJ
We (NMSU SpARC and UACJ) deployed a range of GIS and hydrologic modeling tools to explore flood dynamics associated with heavy rain events in the Paso del Norte region. This work will provide utility in prediction and management of flood flows associated with major rain events in the region. In addition, we are in the process of creating training materials that can be shared with others in the region that have an interest in this type of modeling.
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
The NMSU Geography Department would like to hear from you. We welcome your comments