Key Data Sets

Key Data Sets

Caveats on these lists.

US Interagency Elevation Inventory: https://coast.noaa.gov/inventory/

Type of data	US, Large Scale (Small Area)	All US, small (continental) scale	World, including US,
Lidar Point Clouds	US source, with directions https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic/ http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ http://www.opentopography.org/ http://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/?#	Not a good choice	The following countries have good, free lidar: Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom
Orthoimagery	NAIP and higher resolution (check both USGS sites; they might have different imagery) EarthExplorer (should be first choice) National Map Viewer, High resolution imagery	Not a good choice
DEM	3DEP from National Map Viewer.	SRTM30 ETOPO1/2/5	SRTM MERIT DEM
Satellite imagery	Landsat MrSid Geocover 2000	NASA Blue Marble next generation MODIS rapid response system for moderately sized areas NASA Worldview	Landsat MrSid Geocover 2000 Blue Marble next generation MODIS rapid response system for moderately sized areas
Vector data	TIGER overview. TIGER Download.		Natural Earth GADM--Global Administrative Areas OpenStreetMap--not all countries available; insure you get shapefiles HydroSHEDS--15 sec resolution rivers and drainage basins Global roads: https://ciesin.columbia.edu/confluence/display/roads/Global+Roads+Data, http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/groads (get shapefiles)
Land Cover	US NLCD from National Map Viewer or MLRC	Global GLC2000	Global GLC2000 (1 km) GlobCover 2009 and 2006 (300 m) Corine Land cover 2000 and 2006 for Europe (100m and 250m)
Gazetteer	National Map Viewer or USGS GNIS for state		NGA for foreign countries

US state sites

Country sites

Last revision 1/2/2018