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Intermediate Geographic Information Systems - Spring 2008
Bolstad, Paul. "GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems." Second Edition. White Bear Lake, Minnesota, 2006. |
Textbook Links (Links may be updated to current page redirects.) |
Appendix B: Sources of Geographic Information |
General Information |
http://www.gis.com Software, data, education overview from ESRI Inc. |
http://www.gisdatadepot.com News, data, information on GIS |
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com General GIS information, news, and data |
Spatial Data - U.S. |
http://www.fws.gov/data/gisfgov.html U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; Links to a number of U.S. Government sources |
http://gos2.geodata.gov/wps/portal/gos Spatial data from a number of U.S. Government sources |
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/index.html TIGER data from the U.S. Census Bureau |
http://nationalmap.gov/ USGS - U.S. National Mapping Information |
http://clearinghouse3.fgdc.gov/ Federal Geographic Data Committee - National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse |
http://www.fws.gov/nwi/ U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services - U.S. National Wetlands Inventory Data |
http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/ Natural Resources Conservation Service - NRCS soils data |
http://water.usgs.gov/ USGS - Spatial data for water resources |
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/ USGS - Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) - Data Center portal, general U.S. government site for image and map data |
http://landcover.usgs.gov/ USGS Land Cover Institute (LCI) - NLCD and other landcover data for the U.S. |
http://terraserver-usa.com/ Microsoft Inc. site serving USGS topographic map, DOQ, and other data |
U.S. States |
http://www.asgdc.state.ak.us/ Spatial data for Alaska |
http://agic.az.gov/ Arizona Geographic Information Council |
http://gis.ca.gov/ California state government GIS pages and data |
http://www.dnr.state.co.us/ Colorado environmental and other spatial data |
http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/ Connecticut Map and Goegraphic Information Center |
http://www.rdms.udel.edu/fgdc2/clearinghouse/ Delaware Spatial Data Clearinghouse |
http://dep.state.fl.us/gis/ Florida Department of Environmental Protection, spatial data |
http://www.gis.state.ga.us/ Spatial data from the Georgia state government |
http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/gis/ Hawaii statewide data and programs |
http://www.idwr.idaho.gov/gisdata/gis_data.htm Idaho GIS and remote sensing data |
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/nsdihome/ Illinois state spatial data clearinghouse |
http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/nrgislibx/ Iowa Department of Natural Resources GIS library |
http://www.da.ks.gov/gis/default.htm State of Kansas spatial data |
http://ogi.ky.gov/data/doi.htm Kentucky state government GIS data site |
http://lagic.lsu.edu/ Louisiana Georgraphic Information Center |
http://musashi.ogis.state.me.us/catalog/catalog.asp State of Maine data catalogue |
http://www.mass.gov/mgis/ Massachusetts state GIS data |
http://www.mcgi.state.mi.us/mgdl/ Michigan geographic information clearinghouse |
http://deli.dnr.state.mn.us/ Minnesota state government spatial data |
http://www.msdis.missouri.edu/datasearch/ThemeList.jsp Missouri spatial data |
http://nris.mt.gov/gis/default.asp Montana Geographic Information Clearinghouse |
http://www.dnr.state.ne.us/databank/spat.html Nebraska Spatial GIS Database |
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/gis/ New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection data |
http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/ New York State spatial data clearinghouse |
http://www.cgia.state.nc.us/ North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Center for Geographic Information and Analysis |
http://www.nd.gov/gis/resources/gisnd/ North Dakota Geographic Information Systems |
http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/EISPD/GEO/alphalist.shtml Oregon Geospatial Enterprise Office (GEO) Spatial Data Library |
http://www.pasda.psu.edu/ Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access, Geospatial Data Clearinghouse |
http://www.edc.uri.edu/rigis/ Rhode Island Geographic Information System |
http://www.dnr.sc.gov/gis.html South Carolina Department of Natural Resources - GIS |
http://www.sdgs.usd.edu/ South Dakota Department of Environment & Natural Resources Geological Survey Program |
http://www.glo.state.tx.us/gisdata/gisdata.html Texas General Land Office - Geographic Information Systems Data |
http://agrc.its.state.ut.us/ Utah statewide geographic information database |
http://www.vcgi.org/ Vermont Center for Geographic Information |
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/gis/ University of Virginia Library, Geostat Center: Collections |
http://www1.dnr.wa.gov/dataandmaps/ Washington State Department of Natural Resources, GIS Data |
http://www.sco.wisc.edu/ State of Wisconsin, State Cartographer's Office |
http://wgiac2.state.wy.us/html/wsdc_index.asp Wyoming GIS, Spatial Data Clearinghouse |
Global Data and Data for non-U.S. Countries |
http://www.asian.gu.edu.au/ The Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network |
http://www.ga.gov.au/ Australian Government, Geoscience Australia |
http://www.ciesin.org/ Center for International Earth Science Information Network |
http://www.eurogi.org/ European umbrella organisation for geographic information |
http://www.afigeo.asso.fr/ France Association for Geographic Information |
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/ Ordnance Survey - Great Britain's national mapping agency |
http://www.geoafrica.com/ Geomaps Geomatic Services, Geoinformation for Africa |
http://www.geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/index.html Canada Natural Resources, GeoGratis - Geospatial data |
Images |
http://edc.usgs.gov/ USGS, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) U.S. data, including aerial photographs and satellite archives |
http://www.eurimage.com/ Satellite image sales for most of Europe |
http://gs.mdacorporation.com/ RADARSAT radar imaging data |
http://www.geoeye.com/ GeoEye high resolution satellite (IKONOS) imagery |
http://www.digitalglobe.com/ Quickbird high resolution satellite imagery and orthorectified aerial imagery |
http://www.spot.com/ SPOT satellite imagery |
http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ NASA LANDSAT program |
https://modaps.nascom.nasa.gov:8499/ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Data |
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html NASA, JPL Photojournal images of Earth, other planets, and astronomy |