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- ALEXANDRIA Digital Library-A comprehensive listing of spatial data by region and theme. (Has links for information on the universe to individual states)
- ArcData Catalog-(ESRI) Descriptions of ESRI compatible data offerings from 3rd party vendors.
- Catalogue of Digital Elavation Data-Descriptions of elevation and bathymetric datasets that are available as ASCII files. Includes a section on available software for display and manipulation of data.
- CIESIN Gateway-Identifies data and information resources related to global environmental change and sustainable development. Facilitates simultaneous search and retrieval across diverse databases worldwide.
- Coastline Extractor: USGS-Extract coastline segments bounded by a specified latitude/longitude range in Mapgen, Arc ungenerated, Matlab and Splus formats.
- DATA Depot-Private data agency that has both free and purchasable data sets.
- Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) Datasets Guides-Information about most datasets accessible through CIESIN's Gateway.
- Data on Global Climate Change-A wealth of data provide by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Topics include: global climate modeling; Earth Observations including climatology, radiative fluxes, and storm patterns; climate impacts and forcings due to aerosols, carbon dioxide and methane; and Astrophysics.
- Earth Science Data-From the EOS Interdisciplinary Science Investigations of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System.
- Edinburgh Geographical Information Systems Resource Page
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Global Data Sets Available from UNEP/GRID Sioux Falls
- Geodata Information Sources (University of Iowa Center for Global and Environmental Research)-This is an extensive list of data resources divided into catagory and region.
- GLOBIS-Maintained by the Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
- Hydro Homepage (Elevation Derivative Database): Maintained by the USGS, this page has DEMS at 30 arc-second. It is a hydrological data set, with several layers, with coverages available for most of the continents.
- eoPortal (Earth Observations) -Extensive collection of satellite data available.
- Inter-American Geospatial Data Network
- International Council of Scientific Unions, World Data Center System-World Date Centers collect, archive and redistribute geophysical and solar data.
- NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)-The NODC Holds the world's largest collection of publically available oceanographic data.
- NOAA Satellite Active Archive-A digital library of real-time and historical satellite data from NOAA's Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES). The system allows users to search satellite data inventories, preview sub-sampled Earth images of that data and download the actual data for further processing and analysis.
- On-line Resources for Earth Scientist: Global Data sets-Extensive listing of data resources, maintained by Bill Thoen.
- PenWell MapSearch Geospatial Information for the Energy Industry
- Planetary GIS Web Server (PIGWAD)
- Remote Sensing and GIS Data Sources one the Web(NASA/CHAART)-This list is an outline of some of the RS/GIS data sources available on the Web.
- Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)-Data resources (including large census data archive) and data analysis tools.
- The Global Change Master Directory-All sorts of earth science data covering oceans, atmosphere, hydrosphere, earth, biosphere and hunam diminsions of global change.
- UNEP Global Resource Information Database-Lists of Worldwide and European Datasets.
- United Nations Environmental Programme Interactive Mapping Server
- UNEP/GRID Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research-Datasets in ARC/INFO, IDRISI formats and dataset catalogs in Excel and Word
- USARC, United States Antarctic Research Center, Has maps, aerial photos and other information compiled by SCAR, The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
- USGS: Global Information Locator Service (GILS)-Collection of Global Data servers.
- USGS International Program-Links, data, publications to international GIS
- United States Geological Survey (USGS) Global GIS
- World Digital Elevation Data Catalogue
Last Modified: 03/21/2008