WMS:Quick Tour -Finding Data

With the advent of the Internet, digital data such as DEMs, land use and soil polygons, rainfall estimates, etc. that are used to derive hydrologic models have become cost effective to obtain and use in programs like WMS. However, finding web sites that contain pertinent data and understanding how to download, unzip, and prepare for use in WMS can be a daunting task. For this purpose, the developers of WMS have created a web site at http://emrl.byu.edu/gsda. At this web site a user can learn how to download and use these types of data in a WMS applications.

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