Useful Links

 

Some of the more useful places for downloading GIS data are:

1. General Spatial Data:

   • National Elevation Dataset:  http://ned.usgs.gov/

   • US EPA Multi Resolution Land Cover Data: http://www.epa.gov/mrlc/nlcd.html

   • US EPA National Land Cover Data: http://landcover.usgs.gov/natllandcover.asp

   • USGS portal: http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/

   • USGS Direct Data Download Site:  http://edc.usgs.gov/geodata/

   • Wyoming GIS Center: http://www.wygisc.uwyo.edu/clearinghouse/

   • USGS National Atlas: http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/

   • EPA Surf your watershed: http://www.epa.gov/surf/

   • USGS Land Processes Archive: http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/main.html

   • GIS Data Depot: http://data.geocomm.com/

   • NRCS SSURGO: http://www.ncgc.nrcs.usda.gov/branch/ssb/products/ssurgo/

   • NRCS STATSGO: http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/stat_data.html

   • USGS Sediment Data: http://webserver.cr.usgs.gov/sediment/

   • GAP home page: http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/default.htm

   • BLM public data: ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/

    

2. Remote Sensing Data:

   • USGS Global Visualization Server (GLOVIS):  http://glovis.usgs.gov/

   • EROS Data Center: http://redhook.gsfc.nasa.gov/~imswww/hidden/imswelcome/

   • ARIA: http://aria.arizona.edu/

   • NASA SRTM: http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

    

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