The Forest Spatial Information Catalog is a web-based portal, developed by the Center For International Forestry Research (CIFOR), for one-stop access to spatial publications, maps and other documents that will simplify the ability of all levels of visitors to find forestry related data and learn more about forestry projects underway.

Data Categories:

• AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY:
  Information related to farming and/or utilization of forest.
  Keywords: agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, and plant production.
  
  
• ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATIC:
  Information related to the processes and phenomena of the atmosphere.
  Keywords: atmosphere, climate, and climatology.
  
  
• BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY:
  The information pertaining to the interrelationship between flora and fauna and their environment.
  Keywords: biology, ecology, ecosystem, and ecozone.
  
  
• BASE MAP AND IMAGERY:
  Information related to the physical appearance of the natural features of an area of land in the form of map and imagery.
  Keywords: land cover, land use, vegetation cover, satellite image, and aerial photograph.
  
  
• BOUNDARY:
  Information related to the border or boundaries that define logical divisions of land into areas of ownership or controls.
  Keywords: administrative boundary and boundary layer.
  
  
• CULTURAL, SOCIETY AND DEMOGRAPHIC:
  Information related to cultural, history, and population characteristics.
  Keywords: culture, social, history, demography, and population
  
  
• ECONOMY:
  Information related to the profit-making system of trade and industry.
  Keywords: economy and industry.
  
  
• ELEVATION AND DERIVED PRODUCTS:
  Information related to height above and below sea level and associated data.
  Keywords: altitude and slope.
  
  
• ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:
  Information related to the air, water and land in or on which people, animals and plants live and the act to protect it from damaging effects of human activity.
  Keywords: protected area and environment.
  
  
• GEOPHYSICS:
  The information related to substances that make up the earth and the physical process happening on, in and above the earth.
  Keywords: geology and soil.
  
  
• NETWORKS:
  The information related to a system consisting of many similar parts that are connected together to allow movement or communication between or along the parts; or between the parts and a control center.
  Keywords: road and transportation.



• WATER RESOURCES:
  The information related to inland and salt water features, drainage systems and their characteristics.
  Keywords: river, lake, inland water, watershed, and drainage.