The subdirectories under this directory contain documentation on individual
ancillary data sets.  The data are contained in the \DATA\NCILLARY directory.

Most of the data are .gif files scanned from documentation of the Global
Ecosystems Database.  The Global Ecosystems Database itself is available 
from

NOAA National Geophysical Data Center
325 Broadway
Boulder CO 80303

Fax: 303-497-6513
email:  info@ngdc.noaa.gov

The Global Ecosystems Database, and other parts of the Global Change Data
Base of NOAA/NGDC contain integrated digital representations of soils,
vegetation, ecosystems, climate, topography, and other information.  This
information can be vaulable in studies of climate or vegetation - and for
comparison with the AVHRR-based climatologies distributed on this CD.

The individual subdirectories in \DOCUMENT are for individual layers in
this \DATA\NCILLARY data base.

The directory names are the same as the first characters in the files under
\DATA\NCILLARY.  Thus the \DOCUMENT\NCILLARY\FSOIL directory contains 
documentation on the file \DATA\NCILLARY\FAOSOIL.IMG

.gif files are popular, and are viewable in many graphics packages.  GeoVu,
included on this CD-ROM, can view .gif files with its slide show capability.
See the GeoVu documentation (gvhelp.ps) file contained in the GeoVu 
directories.  In addition, most World Wide Web browsers can view .gif files.