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1. 1:100,000-scale Digital Line Graphs (DLG) from the U.S. Geological Survey [DLG100K]
Digital line graph (DLG) data are digital representations of cartographic information. DLG's of map features are converted to digital form from maps and related sources. Intermediate-scale DLG data ...


2. Elevation Derivatives for National Applications (EDNA) [USGS_EDNA]
The Elevation Derivatives for National Applications (EDNA) is a multi-layered database derived from a version of the National Elevation Dataset (NED), which has been hydrologically conditioned for ...


3. Global Land Cover Characterization Program [USGS_GLCC]
The Global Land Cover Characterization Project was established to meet science data requirements identified by the International Geosphere and Biosphere Programme (IGBP), and the U. S. Global Change ...


4. Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Images [JPL_SRTM]   CHILD DIFs
Culminating more than four years of processing data, NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) have completed Earth's most extensive global topographic map. The mission is a collaboration ...


5. Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Version 2 [JPL_SRTM_V2]
NASA has released version 2 of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission digital topographic data (also known as the "finished" version). ...


6. USGS Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Data [1_250_LULC]
The National Mapping Program, a component of the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), produces and distributes land use and land cover maps and digitized data for the conterminous U.S. and Hawaii. Land ...


7. Greenness of the Conterminous U.S. [USGS_GREENESS]
Since 1989, the USGS EROS Data Center has been mapping the vegetation condition of the conterminous United States (lower 48 states) using satellite information. The vegetation condition maps, or more ...


8. HYDRO1k Elevation Derivative Database [HYDRO1k]
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 ...


9. National Land Cover Database - Kentucky Zone 47 Imperviousness [KLS_KY_impervmetazone47]
The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) provides complete, current, and consistent public domain information on the Nation's land use and land cover. This document explains the methods employed to ...


10. USGS National Elevation Dataset [USGS_NED]
The U.S. Geological Survey has developed a National Elevation Dataset (NED). The NED is a seamless mosaic of best-available elevation data. The 7.5-minute elevation data for the conterminous United ...


11. 1:100,000 Bedrock Geology for Ireland [Bedrock_GSI]
This data set contains vector data with explicit topology of Irish bedrock geology holding separate vector coverages corresponding to stratigraphy, igneous, lithology, dolotomisation, ...


12. Aquatic Ecoregions in the United States GIS Data for the EPA Clean Air Mapping and Analysis Program (C-MAP) [AQUAECO]
Ecoregions are based on perceived patterns of a combination of causal and integrative factors including land use, land surface form, potential natural vegetation, and soils (Omernik, 1987). This is ...


13. Digital Line Graphs of U.S. Streams for the EPA Clean Air Mapping and Analysis Program (C-MAP) [Stream_GIS_USGS]
This is a 1:2,000,000 coverage of streams for the conterminous United States. This coverage was intended for use as a background display for the National Water Summary program. The stream layer was ...


14. GIS Coverage for the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program Retrospective Database for Nutrients in Surface Water: Monitoring Locations [NAWQAHIS]
The retrospective database is a compilation of historical water-quality and ancillary data collected before NAWQA Study Units initiated sampling in 1993. This coverage contains the point locations ...


15. GIS Coverage of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program Trace Elements Sampling Sites for the EPA Clean Air Mapping and Analysis Program (C-MAP) [NAWQA_TE]
This is a point coverage of the sampling sites for the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program Study-Unit investigations of Trace Elements for the conterminous United ...


16. GIS Coverage of the National Water-Quality Assessment Study-Unit Investigations in the conterminous United States (NAWQA) [NAWQA]
This is a coverage of the boundaries and codes used for the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program Study-Unit investigations for the conterminous United States, excluding ...


17. NWS River Forecast Basins (GIS Coverage) [NWS_Riverbasins]
National Weather Service forecast basins for contiguous United States and Puerto Rico. Note: This documentation also applied to the sub-coverages of basins for individual ...


18. Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) MODIS Active Fire Data [FIRMS_MODIS_Active_Fire_Data]
Web Fire Mapper is an internet based mapping tool that delivers locations of active fires in near real time. For selected regions and countries you can view an interactive map showing active fires ...


19. Arc Atlas: Our Earth (CD-ROM) [ESRI_Arc_Atlas]
ArcAtlas: Our Earth brings to your computer a large collection of maps and information about the earth--its people, plants, animals, and their various environments and economies. Whether you're a ...


20. International Steering Committee for Global Mapping: Global Map Data [ISCGM_GLOBAL]
The concept of Global Mapping, and the establishment of an international body for Global Mapping, was first proposed by the Ministry of Construction of Japan (MOC) in 1992; and in 1994 the Geospatial ...


21. Analysis of Glacier Hazard Potentials By Knowledge-Based Remote Sensing Fusion for GIS Modeling (AGREG) [UNIZH_AGREG]
Snow, glaciers and permafrost in cold mountain areas such as the Swiss Alps are especially sensitive to changes in environmental conditions due to their proximity to melting conditions. ...


22. FEMA Multi-Hazard Mapping Initiative (MMI) - HazardMaps [HAZARDMAPS]
FEMA's Mutihazard Mapping Initiative (MMI) is to maintain a living atlas of hazards data and map services for advisory purposes supplied from a network of hazard and base map providers. ...


23. Glacier Hazards: Online-database on historical glacier disasters [UNIZH_GLACIER_HAZARDS]
The online Glacier Hazards database available from the University of Zurich is available in german only. Information on historical and recent catastrophic events can be retrieved according to various ...


24. NASA MODIS Rapid Response System [NASA_MODIS_RAPID_RESPONSE]
The MODIS Land Rapid Response system has been developed to provide rapid access to MODIS data globally, with initial emphasis on 250m color composite imagery and active fire data. This research and ...


25. BOREAS REGIONAL SOILS DATA IN RASTER FORMAT AND AEAC PROJECTION [BOREAS_REGSOILR]
This data set was gridded by BORIS staff from a vector data set received from Canadian Soil Information System (CanSIS). The original data came in two parts that covered Saskatchewan and Manitoba. ...


26. Mineral Resources of New Zealand [GNS_Mineral]
The Mineral Resources of New Zealand database consists of three digital datasets and a library collection of mining company exploration reports. The individual digital databases are being integrated ...


27. Digital boundaries of the Antlers aquifer in southeastern Oklahoma [USGS_OFR_aqbound]
This data set was created for a project to develop data sets to support ground-water vulnerability analysis. The objective was to create and document a digital geospatial data set from a published ...


28. Hurricane Katrina Imagery from the NASA MODIS Rapid Response System [NASA_MODIS_RAPID_RESPONSE_KATRINA]
At the request of the U.S. Army and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the NASA MODIS Rapid Response System is providing daily geo-rectified images of the U.S. Gulf Coast region to assist in ...


29. Map and map database of susceptibility to slope failure by sliding and earthflow in the Oakland area, California [USGS_Map_MF-2385]
Mitigation is superior to post-disaster response in reducing the billions of dollars in losses resulting from U.S. natural disasters, and information that predicts the varying likelihood of geologic ...


30. Vulnerability and Recoverability of the Mojave Desert Ecosystem [USGS_MOJAVEECO]
The Vulnerability and Recoverability of the Mojave Desert Ecosystem is part of the USGS Place-Based Studies Program, to improve scientific understanding of desert ecosystem processes and apply that ...


31. Coal-Bearing Regions and Structural Sedimentary Basins of China and Adjacent Seas: Energy commodities [USGS_OFR0047_commodities]   PARENT DIF
The purpose of this dataset is to give geologists and other scientists a spatial database of commodities in China. This data set will be utilized in energy research and cartographic projects. This ...


32. Large Remaining Unfragmented Forest Areas in Canada [Ca_fblic_GFW]
This raster layer consists of the "large remaining forest areas" grid published in Canada's Forests at a Crossroads: An Assessment in the Year 2000. This dataset is derived from ...


33. USGS Map Service Showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields, and Geologic Provinces of the Arctic [USGS_OFR_97_470_J]
The digitally compiled map includes geology, oil and gas field centerpoints, and geologic provinces of the Arctic (North Pole area encircled by 640 N Latitude). The GIS data sets were designed originally ...


34. GIS Assessment of Solar Energy Resource in Europe [PV_GIS]
A solar radiation database of Europe has been computed within the GRASS GIS software. The database provides monthly and yearly averages of global irradiation on horizontal and inclined surfaces, as ...


35. National Atlas of the United States of America from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) [USGS_NATIONALATLAS]
The National Atlas updates a large bound collection of paper maps that was published in 1970. Like its predecessor, this edition promotes greater national geographic awareness. It delivers ...


36. The Miombo (Africa) Network Land Use/Land Cover CD-ROM from the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP) [IGBP_MIOMBO]
The Miombo Woodlands system is taken to include all those Southern and Central African ecosystems which occur under a hot, subhumid, seasonally-wet climate on soils derived ...


37. EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal [WRI_EarthTrends]
EarthTrends is an online collection of information regarding the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world. Committed to the principle that accurate information drives ...


38. Environmental CERCLA Sites in Utah [agrc_cercla]
This data set represents the sites listed in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability System (CERCLA) as of the 1997 publication date. The coordinate data were ...


39. Florida Geographic Data Library [FGDL]
The Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL) is a mechanism for distributing spatial (GIS) data throughout the state of Florida. The FGDL is warehoused and maintained at the University of Florida's ...


40. Glacier Bay Ecosystem GIS [Inforain_USGS_GBE]
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Interrain Pacific are please to help make available to the public this integrated Geographic Information System for the Glacier Bay / northern Southeast ...


41. Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project [ICBEMP]
The mission of The Interior Columbia Ecosystem Management Project (ICBEMP) is to develop a scientifically sound and ecosystem based strategy for forest and rangelands administered by the Forest Service ...


42. Jornada Experimental Range Physical Attributes [MSU0046]
The "Jornada Experimental Range Physical Attributes" database consolidates information about boundaries, topography, roads, fencelines, enclosures, rain gauges, wells and pipeline locations, and vegetation ...


43. Right-to-Know GIS Atlas of the United States [Right_to_Know]
The Right-to-Know GIS Atlas of the United States CD is a comprehensive collection of public knowledge GIS data. The maps work with the free ArcExplorer GIS viewer, ArcView GIS, and many other GIS ...


44. San Diego GIS [San_GIS]
The SanGIS data set includes an extensive collection of GIS maps that are available to the public. Application Data Included: 1. Public Safety: Crime Mapping & Analysis, ...


45. Southern Appalachian Assessment (SAA) Online Geospatial Database [SAMAB_SAA]
The Southern Appalachian Assessment (SAA) was a cooperative multi-agency effort to assess the environmental condition of the Southern Appalachian region. The SAA was described as the ecological equivalent ...


46. NASA Land Information System (LIS) Data Sets [NASA_LIS_DATA]
The Land Information System (LIS) provides collection of sample data for demonstration of LIS code. The original source of each data set is given whenever possible. LIS does not endorse the validity, ...


47. GLIMS Glacier Database [NSIDC-0272]
Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) is an international project with the goal of surveying a majority of the world's estimated 160,000 glaciers. GLIMS uses data collected primarily by ...


48. The Global Assessment of Human Induced Soil Degradation (GLASOD) Digital Database from UNEP/GRID-Geneva [GNV00018_171]
The Global Assessment of Human Induced Soil Degradation (GLASOD) was conducted by the International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC) at Wageningen, The Netherlands, as commissioned by ...


49. LBA-ECO LC-13 GIS COVERAGES OF LOGGED AREAS, CAUAXI, PARA, BRAZIL: 1996, 1998 [LC13CAUAXI]
We combined a detailed field study of canopy gap fraction with spectral mixture analysis of Landsat ETM+ satellite imagery to assess landscape and regional dynamics of canopy damage following selective ...


50. GIS analysis, biological samples (soil microorganism, invertebrate and plant), automatic weather station data and vegetation and invertebrate surveys to determine the terrestrial biocomplexity of the McMurdo Dry Valleys [K020_2008_2012_NZ_1]
The McMurdo Dry Valleys are the largest area of snow-free land in Antarctica. Managers ability to promote and protect these areas would benefit if we knew the biodiversity present and what controls ...


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