GIS Data Sources
Finding reliable data is critical to your GIS activities, so we have listed here some of the best sources we know. If you find a dead link or if you want to recommend a web site, please contact the Webmaster.
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- Clearinghouses and Portals
- Administrative and Political Boundaries
- Agriculture and Farming
- Atmosphere and Climatic
- Biology and Ecology
- Business and Economic
- Cadastral
- Cultural, Society, and Demographic
- Elevation and Derived Products
- Environment and Conservation
- Geological and Geophysical
- Human Health and Disease
- Imagery and Base Maps
- Inland Water Resources
- International Data
- Locations and Geodetic Networks
- Oceans and Estuaries
- Transportation Networks
- Urban
- Utilities and Communication
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Clearinghouses and Portals
- EROS Data Center
- FAO GeoNetwork
- Geography Network
- GOS - Geospatial One Stop
- Kansas Geospatial Community Commons
- NationalAtlas.gov
- National Park Service Geography and Mapping Technologies
- USGS - GISDATA Map Studio
- USGS EarthExplorer
- USGS GEO-DATA Explorer (GEODE)
- USGS Geography Information Home Page
- USGS Seamless Data Distribution System
- USGS The National Map
- BLM Public Lands & Administrative Jurisdictions
- National Atlas - Boundaries
- U.S.Census Bureau - TIGER-Line®
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Agriculture and Farming
- CARES - Center for Agricultural, Resource and Environmental Systems (Univ. of Missouri)
- Kansas Division of Water Resources
- ERS-USDA Data - Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators Database and Mapping Tool
- Kansas Agricultural Statistics
- Kansas Bureau of Water, Livestock Waste Management Section
- NASS - National Agricultural Statistics Service
- National Atlas - Agriculture
- NCSS Web Soil Survey
- NLCD - National Land Cover Dataset
- NRCS Soil Data Mart
- SCAN - Soil Climate Analysis Network
- The Green Report
- USDA NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway
- USDA PLANTS Database
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Atmosphere and Climatic
- Applied Climate Information System
- Climatic Maps of Kansas
- FLUXNET Project
- High Plains Regional Climate Center
- High Plains Regional Climate Center - Automated Weather Data Network
- High Plains regional Climate Center - Observation Stations
- NARR - North American Regional Reanalysis Homepage
- National Atlas - Climate
- National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
- National Doppler Radar Sites
- National Water and Climate Center
- NCAR, UCAR, UOP Home Page
- NCDC - Metadata Resources
- NCDC GIS Portal
- NCDC NEXRAD Data Inventory Search
- NEXRAD Radar Operations Center
- NOAA nowCOAST GIS Mapping Portal to Real-Time Environmental Observations and NOAA Forecasts
- NOAA Observing Systems Architecture
- NOAA Satellite Imagery, Near Real Time
- NOAA Spatial Data Products in GIS - Satellite Services Division
- NSIDC - National Snow and Ice Data Center
- NWS AWIPS - Advanced Weather Information Processing System
- RIDGE for GIS Users
- SCAN - Soil Climate Analysis Network
- SNOTEL Data Network
- Unidata Community Portal
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Biology and Ecology
- Breeding Bird Survey Summary and Analysis
- Center for Biological Informatics
- EPA - Envirofacts - Queries, Maps & Reports
- EPIZOO Data Viewer
- Flint Hills Ecological Modeling Atlas
- Gap Analysis Program
- InfoNatura - Animals and Ecosystems of Latin America
- National Atlas - Biology
- NLCD - National Land Cover Dataset
- NREL Dynamic Maps, GIS Data, and Analysis Tools
- USDA PLANTS Database
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Business and Economic
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Cadastral
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Cultural, Society, and Demographic
- Digital Sanborn Maps
- Institute for Policy and Social Research (University of Kansas)
- IPUMS-USA and IPUMS-International
- National Atlas - History
- National Atlas - People
- NHGIS - National Historical Geographic Information System
- U.S. Census Bureau - American FactFinder
- U.S. Census Bureau - State and County QuickFacts
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S.Census Bureau - TIGER-Line®
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Elevation and Derived Products
- CGIAR-CSI SRTM 90m DEM Digital Elevation Database
- National Elevation Dataset
- USGS Seamless Data Distribution System
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Environment and Conservation
- Conservation Geoportal
- EPA Geospatial Data
- EPA Superfund NPL Sites
- National Atlas - Environment
- NLCD - National Land Cover Dataset
- NREL - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- The Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Geological and Geophysical
- Atlas of the Kansas High Plains Aquifer
- High Plains Regional Ground-Water Study - High Plains aquifer system
- National Atlas - Geology
- NGDC - National Geophysical Data Center
- NRCS Soil Data Mart
- USGS GEO-DATA Explorer
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Human Health and Disease
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Imagery and Base Maps
- Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) at University of Maryland
- Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) Program
- Kansas Satellite Image Database (KSID)
- NLCD - National Land Cover Dataset
- The Green Report
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Inland Water Resources
- Center for Research in Water Resources
- CUAHSI Home
- EPA Surf Your Watershed
- FEMA Flood Maps
- FEMA Map Service Center
- Ground Water Atlas of the United States
- Kansas Division of Water Resources
- KGS Water Resources
- KGS WIZARD Water Well Levels
- National Atlas - Water
- NAWQA - National Water-Quality Assessment Program
- NHD - National Hydrography Dataset
- NWI - National Wetlands Inventory
- South Africa - WMS station data in PDF graphs 1970-2005
- Spatial Data Sets Available on the WRD NSDI Node
- USGS Water Data for Kansas
- USGS Water Data for the Nation
- USGS Water Resources Maps and GIS Information
- USGS Water Resources of the United States
- WaterOneFlow Services
- WaterWatch - Maps and graphs of current water resources conditions
- WIMAS - Kansas Water Info. Mgmt. Analysis System
Administrative and Political Boundaries
International Data
Oceans and Estuaries
- FGDC Marine Boundary Working Group
- HABSOS - Harmful Algal BloomS Observing System
- NGDC Deck41 Surficial Sea Floor Sediment Descriptions
- NOAA Coral Reef Information Systems (CoRIS)
- NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts
- NOAA nowCOAST GIS Mapping Portal to Real-Time Environmental Observations and NOAA Forecasts
- NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer
Transportation Networks
- Kansas Department of Transportation
- National Atlas - Transportation
- National Transportation Atlas Database
- NGA Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File
Urban
Utilities and Communication