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Note: The icons are offered as an attempt to provide useful information about data availability and website features. Our staff carefully surfed each website and, if available, downloaded and reviewed the retrieved data to confirm everything works fine. However, we do not have control over listed websites, and their content may change on an ongoing basis.
BACK TO U.S. TERRITORY | AFRICA | EUROPE | LATIN AMERICA | NORTH AMERICA | GLOBAL | BEYOND THE EARTH
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Statistics SA Geography A comprehensive portal that offers data of South Africa in diverse styles such as GIS, statistics, maps, census map maker, and interactive map. |
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MadMappers This website offers free raster and vector data, aerials, GPS maps, DEMs, and satellite imagery. It also offers indexes and georeferenced topographic maps |
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China Administrative Regions GIS Data: 1:1 M, County Level, 1990 by CIESIN This dataset is composed of boundary files covering the administrative regions of China. Data offered at a scale of one to one million (1:1M) for national, provincial, regional, and county levels |
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China Archive at Texas A&M University The archive contains geospatial data such as Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Channel Data, NOAA AVHRR-based NDVI Data,Landsat TM, Land Use-Land Cover, World Databse on protected areas (biosphere reserves, RAMSAR and World Heritage sites. Basic data are also offered, including boundaries (province and county), digital elevation models (DEM), stream network, and transportation systems. |
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China Data Center Hosted by University of Michigan, this dataset integrates historical, social and natural science data in a geographic information system. Data is offered as tables, printable maps, and charts. It also offers three interactive maps at provincial level, prefecture city and county levels, allowing to display statistics, histograms and time trend charts. The interactive mapping tools permit to customize the appearance and functionality of the interactive map and its corresponding report. Data freely available to TAMU members |
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China Historical GIS (CHGIS) Hosted by Harvard University. Database of populated places and historical administrative units, down to the county (xian) level, for the period of Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE. Data can be download after creating a free login account. |
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Historical GIS of Europe Provides data to understand evolution of borders, railroad system, population from 1870-2000 |
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IGAC | Instituto Geografico Agustin Codazzi Numerous thematic maps of Colombia are displayed. Downloads are available by opening a login account. |
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SIG-OT | SISTEMA DE INFORMACION GEOGRAFICA PARA LA PLANEACION Y EL ORDENAMIENTO TERRITORIAL It constitutes a network of institutions, technological resources and data to facilitate access and use of geoinformation, with the aim of contributing to an efficient and timely decision-making by authorities at national, regional and local levels, and promote good governance for sustainable development |
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SINPET Map Viewer Sistema Nacional de Planeacion Estrategica Territorial (National System of Territorial Strategic Planning) Interactive maps and their tabular data are offered on themes such as population, education, health, housing, economics, infrastructure and quality of life. The same data is also offered a summarized manner as PDF files. Few other risk maps are offered as JPEG images |
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SIA - Unidad de Sistemas de Informacion Ambiental (Environmental Information Systems Unit) It provides thematic maps in the form of JPEG images with data from 2008-2010. Downloadable data is available with layers such as infrastructure, political boundaries, contours and elevation points, population and social indicators, language and dialects, schools, archeological sites, protected areas, soils, atmospheric data and basemaps. |
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North American Environmental Atlas A collaborative initiative between government agencies in Canada, Mexico and the United States. "It assembles a growing number of foundational and thematic map layers. By comparing these layers, users can better understand and quantify critical trends and interrelationships at a continental scale." It includes themes such as basemap, watersheds, terrestrial ecoregions, human influence, marine ecosystems, climate and industrial pollution. |
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Atlas of Canada North American framework layers include populated places, administrative boundaries, roads, railways, hydrology, bathymetry, glaciers and sea ice. This portal also offers free base maps, |
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GeoGratis Portal that offers open access geospatial data at no cost. The collection includes raster data, such as satellite images or scanned topographic maps, vector data, such as national-scale frameworks (grouped by theme), and a database of ground control points |
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Geoscience Data Repository - Natural Resources Canada Collection of databases, available free of charge, such as maps, geophysical surveys, geochemical data, mineral and fossil fuel data, rock properties, and marine geoscience among others |
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Statistics Canada Canada's central statistical agency that provides data related to population, resources, economy, society and culture. It iffers tabular data, maps and boundary files |
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INEGI Digital Library |
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INEGI Marco Geoestadistico Nacional |
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GLOBAL |
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Digital Chart of the World - Penn State University Libraries Downloadable boundaries and layers from ESRI's digital chart of the world, available in GIS and GIF files. Global topography database in GIS format. It is a 1:1,000,000 scale map based on Operational Navigation Chart (ONC). It was developed by National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA, formerly Defense Mapping Agency) |
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DIVA-GIS Free GIS data particularly useful to conduct analysis concerning biodiversity |
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Earth Trends: The Environmental Information Portal Postal hosted by World Resources Institute. It offers many maps in HTML or PDF format with different themes to show Earth trends. Maps are created using many sources of datasets. |
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ESA Satellite Images The European Space Agency (ESA) offers satellite imagery of around the world in the highest resolution available as TIFF and JPEG images. The Gallery contains images used throughout the ESA Portal, most of them have been released publicly from ESA. You may use ESA images for educational or informational purposes |
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FAO’s GeoNetwork GeoNetwork is an open source of geospatial data that allows to easily share geographically referenced thematic information between different organizations with the purpose to improve access and integrated use, support decision making, and promote multidisciplinary approaches to sustainable development. Data for different regions of the worlds are available on themes such as boundaries, agriculture, applied ecology, bio and ecological resources, climate, fisheries and aquaculture, forestry, human health, hydrology and water resources, infrastructures, LCLU, population and socio-economic indicators, satellite imagery, soils and topography |
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FAO's GeoNetwork GIS Gateway It provides useful interactive maps and datasets concerning agroclimate, farming systems, fisheries, food security, forestry, land degradation and conservation, water, soils and land resources (soil and climate inventory, crop suitability, land cover), and land use, livestock, plant nutrients and fertilizers, FAO country profiles, FAO agriculture stats, FAO decision support tools |
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FAO's GIS in Sustainable Development A special issue offered by FAO’s Sustainable Development Department. It provides a general introduction to Geographic Information System technology, explores some of its most common applications (including FAO's use of GIS), and supplies a page of links to digital datasets available worldwide |
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FIRMS Web Fire Mapper It delivers global near real-time fire information to users to support natural resource and fire managers around the World. FIRMS delivers active fires detected using the MODIS active fire locations processed by the MODIS Rapid Response System. Active fire/hotspot detections in shapefile format are available for the last 24 hours, 48 hours and 7 day time periods. These shape files are updated every hour. Data in KML, NASA World Wind, Web Fire Mapper (WMS) and Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) are also available |
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GeoCommons Finder Community browser-based interface for storing, organizing and sharing geodata in common formats (shapefiles, CSV and KML). It also offers a map maker and sharing interface, as well as a geocoder for the U.S. User must create an account. Layers can be uploaded, but interface does not offer downloadable files. |
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Global Administrative Areas |
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Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) - University of Maryland It provides earth science data and products concerning global environmental systems. It focuses on remote sensing data and products that explain land cover from local to global scales Data can be searched, browsed, and downloaded from the Earth Science Science Data Interface |
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Go-Geo! This U.K. portal allows identification and retrieval of metadata records by searching a number of databases. Many held within the UK higher and further education community, and the NGDF GIgateway and its directory services. User may find other related resources such as books, photographs, learning resources and articles. It also offers an interactive maps with links to geospatial websites from different countries |
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Map Library Open source data of Africa and Central America. Includes administrative boundaries, base maps, outline and satellite imagery. It also offers global administrative areas with subdivisons such as provinces, departments, districts, etc. |
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United Nations Data UN statistical databases, tables, and glossaries containing over 60 million data points that include themes from Agriculture, Human Development, Technological Developments, Industry, and Trade. Also available are Millennium Development Goals and indicators |
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United Nations Geographic Information Working Group A network of professionals working in the fields of cartography and geographic information science to build the UN Spatial Data Infrastructure needed to achieve sustainable development. Several portals are listed, each one offer data and interactive viewers or KML files to view in Google Earth |
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USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) It offers one of the largest collection of Earth imagery: satellite images and data, aerial photography, elevation and land cover, digitized maps, etc. |
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USGS Global Land Cover Characterization A global land cover database primarily derived from 1992 to 1993 1-km AVHRR data. Data is available in a flat, headerless binary raster format that can be imported to geographic information technologies such as ArcInfo. |
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USGS Land Use Land Cover (LULC) It consists of historical land use and land cover classification data that was based primarily on the manual interpretation of 1970's and 1980's aerial photography |
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USGS Land Cover Institute (LCI) It assists in identifying suitable land cover data sets of the most accurate and up-to-date land cover data available. It provides links to organizations that distribute land cover data and to those whom demonstrate the application of such data |
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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program It offers earthquakes data in KML, CSV, and XML format. Different viewers, maps and animations are available for real-time and historic earthquake data |
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USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) A quick and easy online search and order tool for selected satellite and aerial data from EROS holdings. It allows browsing of images within USGS inventory. A downloading interface is provided for datasets that are available at no charge |
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USGS GTOPO30 Global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer). |
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webGIS It offers global and U.S. datasets such as terrain, land use land cover, shoreline data and basemaps. Data obtained from government agencies made available directly to download. It also offers links to other mapping services and websites. |
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WorldClim – Global Climate Data Set of global climate layers with 1-km2 resolution. Data available for current, past and future conditions in the forms of tiles, or as grids |
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World Data Center (WDC) hosted by NOAA’s It provides access to a wide range of global geophysical and environmental data along with associated documentation, and visualization and analysis tools. Access to data for all scientists is free of charge or for the cost of reproduction. As part of WDC datasets, NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) hosts the WDC for Human Interactions in the Environment. Stand alone web application that allows viewing, activating, adding and reordering available data layers from SEDAC catalog. User may print any view and save used layers list as an .xml file that can be loaded later using the load context tool. It also offers a map gallery of about 320 world and regional maps (JPEG/ PDF) of themes such as climate, conservation, governance, hazards, health, population, poverty and sustainability |
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The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth It contains an online collection of over 600,000 astronaut photographs from 1961 through the present. A clickable map, mission-roll-frame search, and technical search are provided to find photos. Downloadable KML files for use in Google Earth are available |
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Landsat Image Viewer User has the opportunity to view real-time images from Landsat satellites. It displays the images in the 5, 4, 3 (Red, Green, Blue) band combination for both the TM and ETM+ sensors at a resolution of 30 meters |
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MARS Global Dataset This site hosted by Arizona State University offers interactive maps and dowloadable data of Mars, in topics such as thermal infrared mosaics, shaded relief, mineral maps among others. Shapefiles are not offered |
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USGS Planetary GIS Web Server It offers interactive maps of Mars, the moon, Venus, Callisto, Europa, Ganymede and Io. It also offers adownloadabale GIS data of Jovian Sats, Mars, Mercury, Moon and Venus |