Federal Government Spatial Data Sources
Department of Agriculture
Farm Service Agency (FSA), Forest Service (FS),
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau
of Reclamation (BOR), National Park Service (NPS), U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS)
Other Federal Agencies
Department of Transportation, Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA), National
Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency (NGA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA), U.S. Census Bureau
Department of Agriculture
- Farm Service Agency (FSA)
- USDA Aerial Photography
Field Office, Farm Service Agency: The Aerial Photography Field Office,
Farm Service Agency is the primary source of aerial imagery for the U.S. Department
of Agriculture. Over 10,000,000 images are libraried at the APFO, dating from
1955 through the present.
- Aerial Photography Field
Office imagery viewers
- Forest Service (FS)
- General Forest Service site: This site
lists a number of links to the Forest Service. The major digital data locations
are under databases and the Geometronics (services) locations. There is a
note at the "services" site that a data clearinghouse is envisioned,
possibly this year.
- FSGeodata Clearinghouse: The FSGeodata
Clearinghouse provides on-line access to selected geospatial information and
metadata held by the Forest Service for National Forest System lands.
- Remote Sensing Applications
Center (RSAC): RSAC provides national assistance to agency field units
in applying the most advanced geospatial technology toward improved monitoring
and mapping of natural resources.
- MODIS Active Fire Mapping Program
- VegTools: Vegetation
Management Tools is a grass-roots approach to sharing information and projects
used in the field to restore and maintain forest health.
- Veg tools Science,
Data, and Monitoring
- Southwest Region GIS
links
- Southeast
Region GIS links
- Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)
- Geospatial Data Gateway:
One Stop Shopping for natural resources or environmental data.
- Maps, Imagery, Data,
& Analysis
- Soils information FTP
site: Soils data from the Statsgo system for every state except Alaska,
in multiple formats. Contact information is given for Alaska data.
- National Cooperative
Soil Survey (NCSS) Web Soil Survey: Nationwide partnership of federal,
regional, state, and local agencies and institutions to cooperatively investigate,
inventory, document, classify, and interpret soils.
- NRCS Data Resources:
Includes Natural Resources Inventory, Plants, Soils data.
- NRCS National Cartography and Geospatial
Center: Overview of NRCS GIS Resources.
Department of the Interior
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
- Geocommunicator:
BLM's publication site for National Integrated Land System (NILS).
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- Geographic Coordinate DataBase (GCDB):
The data at this location relate to the PLSS (Public Land Survey System) data
found at the USGS sites. The site is maintained by the BLM.
- Legacy Rehost 2000 Project: This
system provides access to Case Recordation, Legal Land Description (LLD),
and Mining Claim Recordation.
- National Science and Technology Center
(NSTC): A diversity of data, macros, and other GIS resources.
- National Integrated Land System: Joint
project between Bureau of Land Management and the USDA Forest Service.
- Bureau of Reclamation (BOR)
- DataWeb: An electronic presentation
of the Bureau of Reclamation´s Project Data Book.
- National Park Service (NPS)
- National Park Service GIS Homepage:
General overview of GIS in the Park Service; boundary information for most
parks available.
- The National
Park Service Data Store application (NPS Data Store) manages and shares National Park Service metadata and data generated by the Natural Resource and Servicewide GIS Programs of the National Park Service.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(FWS)
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
- USGS General Digital
Data Information: Points to all USGS Data
- Publications and Other Products:
Includes links to Aerial Photographs, Digital Maps and Data, maps, Satellite
Imagery, Real-time Data, Scientific Publications, Fact Sheets & booklets,
Software and New Products.
- Products Available from EROS: Clickable
table format of all products available over the Internet from EROS Data Center;
this includes documentation as well as data.
- Map Information: Learn
about, locate, view, download, or order topographic, geologic, and other special
purpose maps and charts in a variety of printed and digital formats.
- Other data sources on USGS Computers; these appear to be files created for
specific projects that staff members have put on the WWW to share; there is
metadata; most are in Arc/Info export format as well as SDTS.
- Water Resources NSDI
Node:
- NWISWeb Data for the Nation: Water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in
all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
- TerraServer-USA:
is maintained and managed by the Microsoft MapPoint organization with
MSN and USGS.
- U.S. Board on Geographic Names
- EROS home page: Earth Resources Observation
Satellite Data Center - Sioux Falls (USGS )
- LANDFIRE: Multi-partner wildland
fire, ecosystem, and wildland fuel mapping project. This project will generate
consistent, comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, fire, and fuel
characteristics across the United States.
- Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC):
FGDC home page - Information on national coordination of data sharing (clearinghouse),
metadata information, National Spatial Data Infrastructure, data sources
- SDTS Home Page: Discussion
of the SDTS data standard as well as programming tools
- Mid-Continent Mapping Center Products:
Products available through the USGS Rolla Office, including DRG and DEM data.
- Status Graphics: for
a number of USGS digital map products.
- Overview of the NBII: Leads to biological
data sets -also to the GAP homepage.
- Gap Analysis Home
Page: Cooperative effort among regional, state, and federal agencies, and
private groups as well as the BRD functions of inventory, monitoring, research,
and information transfer.
- Arizona NBII Data Services
Web Site: Joint site with the University of Arizona, featuring Arizona
data.
Other Federal Agencies
- Department of Transportation
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics
(BTS): The geospatial data sets distributed by the Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS) depict transportation facilities, networks, and services
of national significance. Databases are designed to be used with Geographic
Information System (GIS) software packages to locate transportation features
and provide a framework for transportation network analysis.
- Federal Highway Administration's
GIS in Transportation website
- North
American Transportation Atlas Data (NORTAD): The data consist of transportation
networks, transportation facilities, and other spatial data used as geographic
reference.
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- U.S. EPA Geospatial Data
Download Service: Increasing
amount of data on line, generally in Arc/Info format; FTP site will be coming
up shortly too; good metadata.
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Map Service Center (MSC): Official
government source for flood hazard mapping information, products, and services.
- Flood Hazard Mapping:
Information with documentation available at inexpensive prices in a variety
of formats.
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National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA)
- Global Change Master Directory:
Earth Science data directory.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- National Geophysical Data Center:
On-line search engine and lists of available data. Much of the data does have
an associated cost; it can be ordered on line.
- NOAA's National Ocean
Service (NOS) Data Explorer: Data Explorer offers interactive mapping tools
that allow users to locate NOS products in any area in the United States and
its territories through a metadata catalog.
- NOAA's National Environmental
Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS):
National Data Centers for Climate, Geophysics, Oceans, and Coasts.
- NOAA Coastal
Service GIS Information
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
- National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency (NGA): Geospatial Intelligence in support of national security.
Data is under Products and Services.
- Office of GEOINT Sciences:
The new site for the Defense Mapping Agency, Geodetic, Geophysical, Geotechnical
Analysis, and Geospatial Intelligence Information.
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Census TMS Home Page: On-line mapping
demo, background documentation on Tiger data; pointers under the about Tiger
data section to downloadable Tiger data.
- TIGER Home Page: Information
on how to order current Tiger data.
- Cartographic Boundary
Files: Selected generalized extracts from the Census Bureau's TIGER geographic
database.
For additional information regarding this Web page, contact Deb Southworth Green, in the Division of Information Resources and Technology Management, at Deb_Green@fws.gov
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