Kathmandu Resources


Lonely Planet
 
 
 
 
Lonely Planet is one of the worlds leading publishers of travel guides. The online platform provides useful information on the city of Kathmandu and its history.

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/
indian_subcontinent/kathmandu/

 
 
GIS Day Nepal
   
 
 
GIS for sustainable mountain development offers a huge data-set of maps, applications and gis-shapes. There are also an online gis-training and discussion forum.

http://negiss.org.np/aboutus.php
 
 
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
 
 
 
 
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

http://www.icimod.org
 
 
 
Last update: 16 April 2013


Kathmandu

 •  Introduction (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEMF1QTTGOF_0.html)
 •  Background (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEMR3QTTGOF_0.html)

Exercises

 •  Worksheet introduction (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEME7QTTGOF_0.html)
 •  Kathmandu Valley with radar image (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEMMBQTTGOF_0.html)
 •  Kathmandu - Now and then with optical images (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEMCFQTTGOF_0.html)
 •  Kathmandu Valley - General overview with optical images (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEMSQRTTGOF_0.html)
 •  Kathmandu - Now and then - Urban detection with optical images (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEM78STTGOF_0.html)

Links

 •  ESA's Proba website (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Proba_web_site/index.html)
 •  The Landsat programme (http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
 •  What is remote sensing? (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_EN/SEMF9R3Z2OF_0.html)

Eduspace - Software

 •  LEOWorks 3 (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/LEOWorks3.exe)
 •  ArcExplorer (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/eduspace/ae2setup.zip)

Eduspace - Download

 •  kathmandu.zip (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/eduspace/kathmandu.zip)
 •  Technical information about Landsat bands (PDF) (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/eduspace/Technical_data_LANDSAT_bands.pdf)
 •  Kathmandu_Proba.zip (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/eduspace/Kathmandu_Proba_20040505.zip)