ESM 263 Geographic Information Systems

GIS data sources - examples

• UCSB Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory

• California State Geoportal

• Data Basin
  • Santa Barbara County Conservation Blueprint Atlas

• GeoPlatform.gov

• Google
  • Google Dataset Search
  • brute force
• NASA
  • Open Data Portal
  • EarthData
  • LANCE Near Real-Time Data and Imagery

• OpenStreetMap

• Registry of Open Data on AWS

• USGS

  Note: The USGS is notorious for starting up multiple overlapping data services and then randomly shutting them down. Caveat cartographus…

  • EarthExplorer
  • The National Map
  • topoView