Data Sources

GIS and Remote Sensing Tutorials

From Dr. Ajaya Bharadwaja
Remote Sensing and GIS Tutorials
I am a Doctorate in Remote Sensing and GIS. I have created an online tutorial Geospatial Technologies primarily concentrating on practical aspects both for beginners and for advanced learners. I am sure this will be useful for the members. Please have a look at this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK-8Ky7ZiohkOrHpe6EM1Lw

From Ardit Sulce, Python and GIS Instructor on Udemy
Downloading, analyzing, and mapping census data - a free GIS tutorial. Ever needed data on employment, education, health, household income, and more? There are wonderful detailed datasets on the US census database for such topics on different geographic levels starting from blocks up to the state level. Find a free tutorial on a GIS project that will take you through the entire process. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCuEIQl2BByhnFWu858xy5O0rfVAI94Hw

GIS Data Warehouses and Other GIS Data

Global

United States

• US Census Information http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-data.html
• Individual State Data http://libremap.org/data/
• Transportation http://www.gis.fhwa.dot.gov/gisData.asp
• Multiple http://gis.cancer.gov/tools/data_sources.html
• Census, Climate Change, Indian and Federal Lands, Schools, Dams, Tornado Touchdowns, ect. http://www.mapcruzin.com/
• Landsat 8 Data on Amazon Web Services http://aws.amazon.com/public-data-sets/landsat/
• Center for Disease Control: Learn new GIS Tips and Techniques http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/maps/gisx/index.html

Florida

• (Air Quality, Beaches, Geology, Parks, Water Quality, Waste, Minerals + mining, other) http://ca.dep.state.fl.us/mapdirect/gateway.jsp
• Misc. http://www.geoplan.ufl.edu/fgdl_source_links.htm#library
• Misc. http://www.fgdl.org/download/
• Transportation http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/statistics/gis/
• Agriculture, Biology, Boundaries, Climate, Environment, Geology, History, Map Reference, People, Transportation, Water http://www.landsat.com/florida-free-gis-data.html
• City of Tampa https://www.tampagov.net/dept_geographic_information_systems/information_resources/Data_Downloads_and_Metadata/index.asp

Alabama

• http://portal.gsa.state.al.us/ - Alabama Data Portal
• Geological Survey of Alabama - Alabama NSDI node with links to downloadable data sets.
• USDA National Forest Service Alabama GIS
• Water Quality GIS
• Water Resources of Alabama - USGS

Alaska

• Alaska Geological & Geophysical Surveys

Arizona

• Center for Applied Spatial Analysis (CASA)
• State Land Department Maps Page

Arkansas

• Fish and Wildlife Service GIS for Arkansas

California

• Association of Bay Area Governments, ABAG, Regional Data Center

Colorado

• Bureau of Land Management, BLM Colorado GIS page
• Boulder County Land Use GIS page
• Colorado Springs

Connecticut:

• Department of Environmental Protection Environment and Geographic Information Center
• Department of Environmental Protection GIS data

Delaware:

• Delaware State GIS data

Florida:

• Florida Research and Environmental Analysis Center
• PLGDB
• Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL)
• Martin County GIS

Tennessee:

• GISource
• Tennessee Federal GIS Data Server

Texas:

• Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS)
• Texas Water Development Board
• USGS Texas Office

Utah:

• Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center (AGRC)
• Utah Department of Natural Resources

Vermont:

• Vermont Center for Geographic Information

Virginia:

• Geospatial Data in Scholars Lab
• GISData.Virginia.gov
• Virginia Coast Reserve

Washington:

• Washington DNR
• Washington State Geospatial Data Archive

West Virginia:

• WVGISTC
• West Virginia University GIS/Spatial Dataset Links

Wisconsin:

• Wisconsin Land Information Clearinghouse
• Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office

Wyoming:

• Wyoming Water Resources Data System
• Wyoming Statewide Water Resources Data Inventory

BISON (Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation)
Researchers collect species occurrence data, records of an organism at a particular time in a particular place, as a primary or ancillary function of many biological field investigations. Presently, these data reside in numerous distributed systems and formats (including publications) and are consequently not being used to their full potential. As a step toward addressing this challenge, the Core Science Analytics, Synthesis, and Libraries (CSAS&L) program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is developing Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON), an integrated and permanent resource for biological occurrence data from the United States. BISON will leverage the accumulated human and infrastructural resources of the long-term USGS investment in research and information management and delivery. Read the DOI Official Press Release in which BISON's public debut was announced.

Environmental Data Connector
The Environmental Data Connector (EDC) is a tool that allows users to connect to THREDDS/OPeNDAP/SOS/ERDDAP servers and download environmental data. It was developed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries by Applied Science Associates, Inc. (ASA). Version 1.3 of the EDC is available in five versions: EDC for ArcGIS 10.X, EDC for Matlab, EDC for R, EDC for Excel and EDC Standalone.

Robin Wilson's List of Free GIS Data
This page contains a categorised list of links to over 300 sites providing freely available geographic datasets - all ready for loading into a Geographic Information System.

Karen Payne
Karen Payne uses Google Spreadsheets for more than 1000 links to different portals, data types and services.