This is the tutorial guide used on 8/10/11 in the Climate Modeling Workshop.

Since the workshops at Dickinson College- video tutorials have also been produced.

Check out the Tutorial Videos here.

What is Terra Viva?

2011 TerraViva! SEDAC Viewer has been updated with a wide range of new SEDAC data. This map viewer and standalone software application (Microsoft Windows-based) uses a powerful data-viewing engine and tools to enable the visualization and integration of hundreds of socioeconomic and environmental variables and layers, including a range of satellite-based data. TerraViva! is of primary interest to researchers and analysts working in a variety of areas, from environmental and ecological sciences to the social and health sciences.

What Makes the TerraViva! SEDAC Viewer Unique?

• Easy to use.
• Global data viewing engine lets users examine hundreds of variables.
• Dynamic color-coded maps for faster quick comparison of countries.
• Support for rendering maps in more than fifteen different geographic projections.
• Create customized maps and charts.
• A library of maps by theme: population distribution, land cover, physical geography, and more.
• Gazetteer geographic locator can pinpoint cities, states, provinces, countries, water bodies, and weather stations.