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*[http://www.naturalearthdata.com/| Natural Earth] - Public domain vector and raster dataset. Supported by the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)
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*[http://www.iscgm.org/cgi-bin/fswiki/wiki.cgi?page=Application%2FWider+Use+for+Global+Map%2FSection+1| Global Map] - Provides consistent coverage of all the Earth's land cover area. Includes different thematic maps such as: Transportation, Elevation, Drainage, Vegetation, Administrative Boundaries, Land Cover, Population Centres, and Land Use. ''Registration Required''
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*[http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/index.php| UNEP GEOdata] - Provided by the United Nations Environment Programme. Includes: Global Forest Cover, Global Potential Evapotranspiration, Global Average Monthly Temperatures, Dams, Watershed Boundaries, and much more. ''Use the advanced search to select "Geospatial Data Sets"''
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*[http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html| GSHHS] - "A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Databse" High quality, and consistent data.
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*[http://www.gdem.aster.ersdac.or.jp/search.jsp| ASTER GDEM] - 30m resolution global elevation data derived from ASTER satellite images.
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*[http://www.opentopography.org/index.php| Open Topography] - "High-resolution, Earth science-based, topography data, and related tools and resources" Available as dense point clouds, and DEMs.
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*[http://www.gisclimatechange.org/| NCAR GIS Climate Change Scenarios] - Includes data used by the IPCC in their reports. ''Registration Required''
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*[http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/| IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library] - Collection of more than 300 datasets from various climate models and datasets.
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*[http://hydrosheds.cr.usgs.gov/| HydroSHEDS] - Global hydrological based on the STRM elevation data. Includes river networks, watershed boundaries, drainage directions, and flow accumulations.
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*[http://landcover.usgs.gov/| USGS Land Cover Institute] - Set of links for numerous land cover datasets. Although primarily US data, further down the list there is data for other continents
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*[http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/data/item1872.html| Global Lakes and Wetlands Database] - Vector data outlining global wetlands, swamps, bogs, reservoirs, etc.
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*[http://www.wri.org/publication/pilot-analysis-global-ecosystems-forest-ecosystems#data| Forest GIS] - Data includes: percentage tree-cover, population density and tree cover, share of wood in fuel consumption, etc.
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*[http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/External-World-soil-database/HTML/index.html?sb=1| Harmonized World Soil Database] - Combines regional and national soil databases and maps under the Land Use Change programme of the UN FAO. Includes pH, depth, and texture parameters. 30 arc-second resolution.
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Revision as of 15:23, 23 May 2012

Introduction

Here you will find a list of resources to get GIS data. The list categorizes the resources by location.

The list is a work-in-progress!


Global

  • Natural Earth - Public domain vector and raster dataset. Supported by the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)
  • Global Map - Provides consistent coverage of all the Earth's land cover area. Includes different thematic maps such as: Transportation, Elevation, Drainage, Vegetation, Administrative Boundaries, Land Cover, Population Centres, and Land Use. Registration Required
  • UNEP GEOdata - Provided by the United Nations Environment Programme. Includes: Global Forest Cover, Global Potential Evapotranspiration, Global Average Monthly Temperatures, Dams, Watershed Boundaries, and much more. Use the advanced search to select "Geospatial Data Sets"
  • GSHHS - "A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Databse" High quality, and consistent data.
  • ASTER GDEM - 30m resolution global elevation data derived from ASTER satellite images.
  • Open Topography - "High-resolution, Earth science-based, topography data, and related tools and resources" Available as dense point clouds, and DEMs.
  • NCAR GIS Climate Change Scenarios - Includes data used by the IPCC in their reports. Registration Required
  • IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library - Collection of more than 300 datasets from various climate models and datasets.
  • HydroSHEDS - Global hydrological based on the STRM elevation data. Includes river networks, watershed boundaries, drainage directions, and flow accumulations.
  • USGS Land Cover Institute - Set of links for numerous land cover datasets. Although primarily US data, further down the list there is data for other continents
  • Global Lakes and Wetlands Database - Vector data outlining global wetlands, swamps, bogs, reservoirs, etc.
  • Forest GIS - Data includes: percentage tree-cover, population density and tree cover, share of wood in fuel consumption, etc.
  • Harmonized World Soil Database - Combines regional and national soil databases and maps under the Land Use Change programme of the UN FAO. Includes pH, depth, and texture parameters. 30 arc-second resolution.



United States

United States Regional

Northwest Forest Plan GIS Data


Washington State

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