WOODROW WILSON ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE RUTGERS 1998

DATA SOURCES

by Dave Williams, Coordinator
Fresno Regional GLOBE Training Center

Alexandria Digital Library - UC Santa Barbara http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/ BADGER (Bay Area Digital GeoResource) http://www.basic.org/html/badger.html CASDE (Consortium for the Application of Space Data to Education) http://ulysses.unl.edu/casde/prog/c_desc.htm Project designed to organize, enhance, and disseminate NASA analytical tools, data and information for educational use. It is the intent to catalog and categorize significant portions of existing and new data holdings in a context facilitating educator and student access. CASDE will facilitate use of these data by making available visualization techniques developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Goddard Space Flight Center. CASDE Resources: http://sisos.jpl.nasa.gov/vn/Alpha2/index.htm CCRS Digital Browse Facility http://www.ccrs.emr.ca/cdql/cdql.html Landsat TM and SPOT images (thumbnails) 1991 to present. The Center at Hamline http://center.hamline.edu On line conferencing dedicated to technical aspects of GIS as well as educational implementation. Center for Mapping, The Ohio State University http://www.cfm.ohio-state.edu/ Data for Remote Sensing http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/RemoteSensing.html Data Sources for GIS http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/sources/sources.html ESRI Arc Data Online http://www.esri.com/base/data/online/index.html A free database of online information about people, nations and the environment for creating map images and downloading geograpic data. ESRI Data Hound http://www.esri.com/datahound Search engine that finds Web sites with free data compatible with ESRI software. Parameters include geographic area, themes and keywords. ESRI Data Index http://www.esri.com/data/ Federal Geogrpahic Data Committee http://www.fgdc.gov GIS in the Earth Sciences and Map Library (UC Berkeley) http://library.berkeley.edu/EART/gis.html Large selection of data and maps as well as links to government and NGO sources of spatial information. The library (http://library.berkeley.edu/EART/) also contains collections for earth sciences, geography, climate and aerial photography. GIS Data and Software Library, Harvard Design and Mapping Co., Inc. http://www.hdm.com/gis3f.htm Global Change Master Directory http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/pointers/pointwais.html Global 30 Arc Second Elevation Data Set http://www1.gsi-mc.go.jp/gtopo30/gtopo30.html Guide To Mostly On-line And Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/hunt/index.html Listings by international, national, state and cities, and also by topic. Excellent starting point for beginning search for specific geospatial data. NEDI (National Environmental Data Index) http://www.nedi.gov/ Remote Sensing Imagery Samples http://www.wcslc.edu/pers_pages/r-ford/ESS205/g300www/g300wwwgisrs.html#Remote Sensing SEDAC (Socioeconomic and Data Applications Center) http://sedac.ciesin.org/ Stephen P. Teale Data Center http://www.teale.ca.gov/home.html Thoen's Web New Horizons in Digital Maps, Cartography and GIS! http://www.sni.net/gis/ USGS Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Data http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/glis/hyper/guide/1_250_lulc Data files describe the vegetation, water, natural surface, and cultural features on the land surface. The USGS provides these data sets and associated maps as a part of its National Mapping Program. The LULC mapping program is designed so that standard topographic maps of a scale of 1:250,000 can be used to compile and organize the LULC data. USGS National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse http://nsdi.usgs.gov/nsdi/ A component of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The Clearinghouse provides a pathway to find information about geospatial or spatially referenced data available from USGS. The information is in the form of metadata. Metadata or "data about data" describe the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of data. Metadata are used to organize and maintain investments in data, to provide information to data catalogs and clearinghouses, and to aid data transfers. The Virtual Geography Department, University of Texas, Austin http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/virtdept/contents.html also http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/virtdept/resources/contents.htm Complete geospatial resources grouped by category, e.g. Journals, map collections, data sets, educational resources, software, etc. The Virtual Geography Department, University of British Columbia http://www.geog.ubc.ca/vgd/vgd.shtml Links to online tutorials and resources for data. Virtually Hawaii http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/space/hawaii/index.html Wisely's GIS Yellow Pages http://sunflower.singnet.com.sg/~wisely/gislist.htm The electronic equivalent to the phone book for GIS. Clickable map for downloading of data. WWW Virtual Library http://www.vtt.fi/aut/rs/virtual/

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