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Processing, archiving, and distributing Earth science data at NASA Langley Research Center

Earthinfo

  • CIA's World Factbook
  • National Geographic Educational Resources
  • Image Links
  • Image Net
  • NIMA data:
    • DOI-10 Imagery
    • DTED® 0 Terrain Data
    • VMap 0 Vector Map
    • VMap 1 Vector Map
    • ONC Raster Map
    • TPC Raster Map

    The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners
    The Federation maintains over 2,000 Earth Science datasets.
    Every one is available to scientists, educators, policy makers, students, and the general public.
    The vast majority of the data is free.
    Federation partners are working together to develop new datasets that apply to specific interests bringing Earth science data to an ever expanding arena of users.

    Geogratis
    GeoGratis is a website and FTP site that distributes geospatial data of Canada.
    Data is available for download, without charge!

    Geoscience Australia
    National Mapping Division (formerly AUSLIG)
    These data sets are available for download. Before you download the data you will be asked for some details, which are used for licensing and monitoring product usage.

  • GEODATA
  • MAPDATA
  • Digital Elevation Data
  • Resource & Environmental Data
  • Maritime Boundaries (AMBIS)
  • Satellite Data
  • GIS Data Depot
    Nationwide data sets include:

  • Digital Chart of the World (DCW) - E00 Format
  • Admin/Political Boundaries - 1M - E00 Format
  • Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) Level 0
  • Geologic - 1M - E00 Format
  • Hydrography - 1M - E00 Format
  • Hypsography - 1M - E00 Format
  • Land Use/Land Cover - 1M - E00 Format
  • Transportation - 1M - E00 Format
  • Utilities - 1M - E00 Format
  • The Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project
    The GLOBE project has developed a 1-km gridded, quality-controlled global Digital Elevation Model (DEM).
    GLOBE is an internationally designed, developed, and independently peer-reviewed global digital elevation model (DEM), at a latitude-longitude grid spacing of 30 arc-seconds.
    The ongoing project makes use of several data sources to attain high data quality.
    Important parts were taken from GTOPO30, but there are also additional contributions not part of GTOPO30.

    National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
    The Geospatial Data Clearinghouse is a collection of over 250 spatial data servers, that have digital geographic data primarily for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), image processing systems, and other modeling software data collections can be searched through a single interface based on their descriptions, or "metadata".

    Princeton Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center Internet Geospatial Resources

    UNEP
    United Nations Environment Program
    Division of Early Warning Assessment (DEWA)
    GRID Geneva
    Global Resource Information Database
    GRID's archives contain numerous high quality data sets at various scales (global, continental, national and subnational) on a variety of environment related themes.
    The data are provided free of charge to users around the world, and can be downloaded online.

  • Atmosphere
  • Biodiversity
  • Boundaries
  • Climate
  • Ecological/Life zones
  • Human related
  • Hydrology
  • Land Cover
  • Oceans & Seas
  • Physical Geography
  • Soils
  • Vegetation index
  • USGS EROS Data Center

  • Satellite Imagery
  • Land Cover, Elevation
  • Airborne Imagery
  • Radar
  • GTOPO30 and HYDRO1K
    GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer).
    HYDRO1k is a geographic database developed to provide comprehensive and consistent global coverage of topographically derived data sets, including streams, drainage basins and ancillary layers derived from the USGS' 30 arc-second digital elevation model of the world (GTOPO30).

    World Data Center System

    World Energy Resources

  • Assessment Unit Summary Data
  • Total Petroleum System Geologic Characterizations
  • Total Petroleum System Summary Data
  • Geologic Provinces of the World

  • Personal tools