Library and others | Annual Report 1996

The information and communication processing techniques have made starting progress.
Internet and WWW have rapidly developed as a worldwide computer network and have now found their way into almost all research institutes and organizations.
The Internet world is more superior to give and exchange quick information on the research activities which have been conducted in official institutes, and their results. The NIAES has opened the Internet Home Page ( http://www.naro.affrc.go.jp/archive/niaes) from May, 1995 and has released the information of the institute and the useful WWW image database on agricultural environment, such as Distribution Maps of Net Primary Productivity (NPP) of Natural Vegetation and Related Climatic Resources, Japanese Agriculture Viewed from Space, Satellite Image Catalogue Database in NIAES, Lotus in Japan, and so on.