A curated collection and science-based mapping platform for biodiversity, ecology, and species data. Contributions by many state and federal agencies and special interest groups.
For the Northwest Climate Science Center climate tools and data repositories guide. A comprehensive guide to climate data, ecosystem vulnerability assessments, and climate adaptation databases and tools.
CIESIN works at the intersection of the social, natural, and information sciences, and specializes in on-line data and information management, spatial data integration and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human interactions in the environment.
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Earth Observations. Provides global satellite imagery for data related to oceans, atmosphere, and land surfaces.
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center. Focuses on human interactions in the environment and supports the integration of socioeconomic and earth science data.
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Provides access to interactive maps, satellite imagery, and related spatial databases maintained by FAO. This data relates to agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and food security.
Based on the Harvard University Geospatial Infrastructure (HUG) platform, and was developed by the Center for Geographic Analysis to make spatial data on Africa easier for researchers to discover and explore.
Harvard-based map of China supported with data from Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Social Explorer, and China Data Center - powered by WorldMap.
Canadian government GIS repository provided by the Earth Sciences Sector of Natural Resources Canada. Contains both physical and human geography datasets, vector and raster, for free. Most files are in Interchange Format (e00).
The University of Washington Olympic Natural Resources Center located on the Olympic Peninsula in Forks, Washington, provides scientific information to address critical issues and solve problems concerning forestry and marine sciences in the region.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool. Provides geospatial analysis tools for environmental, demographic, and justice indexes.
U.S. Geological Survey. Provides elevation, hydrography, geographic names, boundaries, transportation, structures, and land cover data as well as orthoimagery.
U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center. Provides aerial photography and digital orthophotography, elevation data (NED, DEMs, GTOPO30, etc), satellite imagery (ASTER, SRTM, SIR-C, NALC, etc), and land cover data (NLCD, LULC, GLCC, etc).
U.S. Geological Survey Hydrological Shuttle Elevation Derivatives at Scales. Provides regional and global hydroshed images, data (vector and raster), and maps.
U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geology Program. Provides data on sediment and rock distributions as well as seafloor characteristics for waters off the U.S. coast.