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General Layout

The menu-system of this GAEZ 2000 WebSite/CD-ROM is subdivided into four major parts as described below:

GAEZ Home Page   Home, provides access to the copyright statement, a foreword provided by the Assistant Director General for Agriculture of FAO, and the Director of IIASA, acknowledgments, information about the authors, and a disclaimer.
Presentation
Summary of Results
What is GAEZ		 Part 1

Part 1 is meant to provide a short and crisp overview to enable the user to quickly decide if and what he/she wants to explore further. It contains;

  • a slide presentation explaining the Global AEZ concept;
  • a summary of the methods used and results obtained, and
  • a set of frequently asked questions.
Introduction
Methodology
Land Resources and Data
Results
The Data		 Part 2

Part 2 provides detailed background information on GAEZ, it presents the methodological details and contains results and downloadable images and spreadsheets as follows:

  • Introduction and background;
  • Methodological aspects of GAEZ crop productivity assessment;
  • Land resources; climate soil and terrain data bases and data analyses;
  • Results and crop productivity assessments and applications;
  • Data including downloadable spreadsheets and images.
Limitations of the Study
Whats to Come		 Part 3 Part 3 alerts the user of the limitations of the current version of GAEZ, recommends modes of result interpretations, and indicates the envisaged way forward:
Bibliography
Index
Help		 Part 4 Part 4 contains the major references used, an index together with a search engine for the local pages (activated only when an Internet connection is present), a help and a technical help explanation.


Color Scheme

A consistent coloring scheme is used throughout the GAEZ-CD for different type of links and the various sections in the following manner:

Tables
List of all tables
Figures
List of all figures
Appendixes
List of all appendixes
Plates
List of all plates
Pictures
List of all pictures
Animations
List of all animations
Data Sets
Data Sets

How to Proceed

It is recommended that after the user is acquainted with the menu system and coloring scheme, (described above) to first view the presentation, and then proceed browsing through the methodology, results, and the appendixes. The user can then view selected results in the form of plates (maps) and animations, and finally if interested, the user may choose to download the various available data sets.

Data Available of this Website/CD-ROM

The data presented on this WebSite/CD-ROM may be downloaded in the form of either zip files, (each of which would contain all of the needed data components) and as MS-Excel 95 spreadsheets. The behavior of the browser in this respect, varies from one installation to another.

Technical Help    

Although the preferred resolution is at least 768x1024, the animations, plates and tables will try to rescale, if a lower resolution is used.

These pages are only supported by MS-Explorer 5+       and     Netscape 4.5+     browsers.

If you have encountered problems or have specific questions, please send E-mail to one of the authors
For general questions and comments regarding this Global-AEZ WebSite/CD-ROM, please send E-mail to lucinfo@iiasa.ac.at


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