List of GIS data sources

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This is a list of GIS data sources (including some geoportals) that provide information sets that can be used in geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial databases for purposes of geospatial analysis and cartographic mapping. This list categorizes the sources of interest.

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Global

GIS data for global datasets
NameDescription
Natural Earth Public domain vector and raster dataset. Supported by the NACIS. [1]
Global Map Provides consistent coverage of all the Earth's land cover area. Includes different thematic maps such as: transportation, elevation, drainage, vegetation, administrative boundaries, land cover, population centres, and land use. Registration required. [2]
FABDEM The first global digital elevation model at 30 meter resolution with forests and buildings removed. Produced by researchers from Fathom and the University of Bristol. [3]
UNEP Environmental Data Explorer Includes global forest cover, global potential evapotranspiration, global average monthly temperatures, dams, watershed boundaries, and much more. Use the advanced search to select geospatial data sets. Provided by the United Nations Environment Programme. [4]
GSHHG Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database: high quality, and consistent data. [5]
ASTER GDEM30m resolution global elevation data derived from Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer satellite images. [6]
OpenTopographyOpenTopography facilitates community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources.. Find high-resolution, Earth science-based, topography data, and related tools and resources. Available as dense point clouds and DEMs.
NCAR GIS Climate Change ScenariosIncludes data used by the IPCC in their reports. Operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Registration required.
IRI/LDEO Climate Data LibraryCollection of more than 300 datasets from various climate models and datasets. Operated by The Earth Institute and Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory.
Global Climate Monitor Climate web viewer containing accessible climatic information from 1901 that can be downloaded in a variety of GIS formats.
HydroSHEDSGlobal hydrological data based on the SRTM elevation data. Includes river networks, watershed boundaries, drainage directions, and flow accumulations.
USGS Land Cover InstituteSet of links from the USGS for numerous land cover datasets. Although primarily US data, further down the list there is data for other continents.
Atlas of the Biosphere: Mapping the BiosphereRaster maps of environmental variables including soil pH, potential evapotranspiration, average snow depth, and more.
Global 200Vector data from WWF of "a set of the Earth's terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecoregions that harbor exceptional biodiversity and are representative of its ecosystems." [7]
Global Lakes and Wetlands DatabaseVector data created from multiple sources by the WWF and Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel outlining global wetlands, swamps, bogs, reservoirs, etc.
Conservation GIS DataData from The Nature Conservancy and associated organizations, including: TNC Lands & Waters (properties/preserves, easements and leases), Ecoregional Portfolio, Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World, Freshwater Ecoregions of the World, and Marine Ecoregions of the World.
The Biodiversity HotspotsData from Conservation International on areas of the world with especially high endemism and high numbers of threatened species.
Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems: Forest EcosystemsData from the World Resources Institute includes: percentage tree-cover, population density and tree cover, share of wood in fuel consumption, etc.
SoilGrids1km - soil property and class mapsSoilGrids1km is a collection of updatable soil property and class maps of the world at a resolution of 1 km produced using state-of-the-art model-based statistical methods. Presents estimates (means and 90% confidence intervals) for pH, texture (sa, si, cl), organic carbon and more for 6 depth layers up to 2 m depth.
Harmonized World Soil DatabaseCombines regional and national soil databases and maps under the Land Use Change programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Includes pH, depth, and texture parameters. 30 arc-second resolution.
Datasets from the United Nations Environment ProgrammeIncludes global ecoregions, wetlands, distribution of coral reefs, mangroves, and more.
Mineral Resource Data SystemA collection of reports from the USGS describing metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world. Includes names, location, commodity, description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, and more.
World Bank GeodataA wide range of World Bank datasets: schooling and financial data, etc.
Global Administrative AreasAdministrative areas in this database are countries and lower level subdivisions such as provinces, departments, bibhag, bundeslander, daerah istimewa, fivondronana, krong, landsvæðun, opština, sous-préfectures, counties, and thana.
Crop Calendar DatasetRaster data on planting dates and harvesting dates across the world for 19 crops. Available at 5 minute and 0.5 degree resolutions.
Global Agriculture LandsRaster dataset from NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center representing global extent and intensity of use of agricultural lands in 2000. Satellite data from MODIS and SPOT (satellite) image vegetation sensor were combined with agricultural inventory data.
Global Irrigated Area Map (GIAM)Vector mapping by the International Water Management Institute of global irrigated and rainfed cropland.
Past and Present Agricultural Land UseMultiple datasets showing agricultural land use dating from 1700 to 2007 for 175 crops.
Historic Croplands Dataset, 1700-1992Documents historical changes in global land cover: croplands from 1700 to 1992.
Global Reservoir and Dam (GRanD) DatabaseVector dataset from NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center on all reservoirs with a storage capacity >0.1 cubic km.
Armed Conflict Location and Event DatasetContains all reported conflict events in 50 countries in developing world, from 1997 to present.
Gridded Population of the World (GPW)Dataset from NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center includes raw population, population density, historic, current and predicted.
Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP)Dataset from NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (based on the above data, but includes information on rural and urban population balances).
Global Roads Open Access Data Set (gROADS)Well documented global dataset from NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center of roads between settlements using a consistent data model (UNSDI-T v.2) which is, to the extent possible, topologically integrated, and accurate to approximately 50m. Only roads between settlements are included, not residential streets, and the dataset is suitable for mapping at the 1:250,000 level.
OpenStreetMap Crowdsourced data for the whole world including most things you'd find on a standard local paper map: points of interest, buildings, roads and road names, ferry routes etc.
World Port IndexContains the location and physical characteristics of, and the facilities and services offered by major ports and terminals worldwide, from the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
OpenFlights Airport, Airline and Route DataIncludes all known airports, and a large number of routes between airports (not provided in GIS data formats, but can easily be converted from CSV).
GeoHivePopulation and county statistics (not provided in GIS data formats, but can easily be converted from CSV).
Viewfinderpanoramas Digital Elevation Model (DEM) repositoryGlobal digital elevation model data maintained by Jonathan de Ferranti. Major areas of coverage includes: Asia, North America, South America, Alps, North, Other Europe, Africa, Antarctica, others. [8]
CHELSA Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areasGlobal climatologies at 30 arc sec (~1 km) resolution for land surface temperature and precipitation. [9] Free under the creative commons CC BY license. Files in GEOTiff format
OrrbodiesIncludes geology, topography and mineral occurrence data for several countries as well as globally. Files are mostly in MapInfo format. Both free and commercial datasets available.
Rextag Global Energy GIS DataCovers more than two million miles (3.2 Million Km) of oil and gas pipelines, and thousands of energy facilities, such as refineries, LNG terminal, gas processing plants, terminal, and much more.
International Peace Information Service (IPIS) Open DataDatasets originate from International Peace Information Service (IPIS) 's data collection campaigns and research in sub-Saharan Africa with a thematic focus on natural resources, conflict motives of armed actors, business and human rights, and international arms transfers.
The OCC Environmental Data CommonsRepository for environmental public data sets of scientific interest, hosted as part of the Open Science Data Cloud Ecosystem.
OpenAerialMapOpenAerialMap (OAM) is a set of tools for searching, sharing, and using openly licensed satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery.
OpenLandMapWorld's environmental data representing land mask (land cover, vegetation, soil, climate, terrain data and similar)
IPUMS InternationalHarmonized International Census Data for Social Science and Health Research

Polar region

GIS data for Polar datasets (only)
NameDescription
REMAThe Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) is a high resolution, time-stamped Digital Surface Model (DSM) of Antarctica at 8-meter spatial resolution.

Europe

GIS data for European datasets
NameDescription
INSPIRE Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community; primarily a geoportal; contains many resources pertaining to GIS governance in the European Union. For example: INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Cadastral Parcels — This document describes the INSPIRE data specifications for the spatial data theme Cadastral Parcels.
European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC) Unique point for soil related data at continental scale. [10] Among others: The European Soil Database, Soil erosion assessment, Soil Organic carbon, soil biodiversity, LUCAS data, etc
European Union Open Data Portal Search for and download a variety of datasets from European Union agencies.
European Environmental Agency Geodata Search for and download a variety of datasets from the European Environment Agency.

Europe by country

Cyprus

GIS data for Cyprus
NameDescription
Department of Lands and Surveys Geospatial and administrative data from the Department of Lands and Surveys.
INSPIRE GeoPortal of Cyprus Geospatial data from the Department of Lands and Surveys.

Czech Republic

GIS data for the Czech Republic
NameDescription
arcdata.cz The digital vector geographical database of the Czech Republic ArcČR® 500 is created in the detail of the scale 1: 500 000. Its content is clear geographical information about the Czech Republic. The data were created in cooperation with ARCDATA PRAHA, s.r.o., the Surveying and Mapping Authority and the Czech Statistical Office and are distributed free of charge.

Greece

GIS data for Greece
NameDescription
geodata.gov.gr geodata.gov.gr is designed, developed and maintained by the Institute of Information Systems of the Research Center "Athena" to serve as a central collection point, search, distribution and display of open public geospatial information.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Corinth Excavations Collection of data for Greece, the Corinthia, and Ancient Corinth; contains many data resources pertaining to GIS in Greece, modern and ancient. The page is maintained by the Corinth Excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens which has been excavating in Ancient Corinth since 1896.

Lithuania

GIS data for Lithuania
NameDescription
Geographic information portal of Lithuania Geographic information portal of Lithuania.

Czech Republic

Sweden

GIS data for Sweden
NameLicenseDescription
Geodataportalen VariousNational geoportal organized by Lantmäteriet, the national geoinformation agency, indexing geodata from various agencies.
Länsstyrelsernas geodatakatalog(Swedish) VariousGeoportal from the counties, indexing geodata primarily used as basis for regional development and decisions.
Lantmäteriet open geodata CC0GIS-friendly geodata available from the national geoinformation agency. Requires creating an account.
Trafikverket Lastkajen(Swedish) CC0Geodata of railroad & road networks, from the transport agency.

Brazil

GIS data for Brasil
NameDescription
GIS Dataset Brasil Geospatial data for Brazilian cities, microrregião, mesorregião and states.
SIGMINE Brazilian Mining Geographic Information System.
SIGEL Geographic Information System of the electric sector.
INDE National Infrastructure of Spatial Data
SNIRH National System of Water Resources Information

Canada

GIS data for Canada
NameDescription
CanadianGIS Geospatial data products from all Canadian Provinces and Territories.
Geogratis Search for and download many federally produced geospatial products from the Government of Canada.
Navmart |Provider of both geospatial data & location platform integrations

Canada Regional

Regional GIS data for Canadian Provinces and Territories
NameDescription
GeoDiscover Alberta Portal Alberta regional GIS datasets on a variety of topics hosted by the Alberta Government.
DataBC Data Catalogue Spatial and aspatial data from the province of British Columbia.
Land Information Ontario Spatial data from the province of Ontario.
Manitoba Land Initiative Spatial data from the province of Manitoba.
GeoNB Find it. Map it. Share it. GeoNB is the Province of New Brunswick's gateway to geographic information and related value-added applications. Use "Data Catalogue" link to access files.

India

GIS data for India
NameDescription
Geo-Platform of ISRO Bhuvan - an Indian Geo-platform of ISRO by National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC).
Open Data Archive Bhuvan - GIS - Open Data Archive from NRSC.

United States

GIS data for the United States
NameDescription
MAPSearch offers superior GIS asset data for the North American energy industry—petroleum, natural gas, electric power and renewable energy. Combining one of the leading providers of locational accuracy, comprehensive coverage, robust attribute data, and exceptional customer services, MAPSearch offers a unique data service suitable for merger analysis, project siting, system planning, investment evaluation, and more
The National Map Topographic data from the USGS and other federal, state, and local partners.
National Geophysical Data Center All free data from the NGSC. Includes elevation models, land cover, seismology, etc.
The Geospatial Platform Search for and download a wide variety of datasets from this portal developed by the member agencies of the Federal Geographic Data Committee through collaboration with partners and stakeholders.
USDA ERS Data Products Data from the Economic Research Service, including the Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America, Farm Program Atlas, Food Access Research Atlas, and Food Environment Atlas.
USGS Remote Sensing Phenology Data from the USGS on seasonal changes in vegetation across the US. Includes start of season, time of maximum, ampliture[ check spelling ], etc.
Terrestrial Ecological Systems of the United States A mid-scale ecological classification of over 800 ecosystems in North America.
USGS Gap Analysis Program The USGS Gap Analysis Program maintains four primary data sets: land cover, protected areas, species and aquatic. The GAP Land Cover Data Set is the most complete map ever produced of vegetative associations for the US. Classified into 551 ecological systems, and 32 modified ecological systems (where human impacts have had an effect).
National Hydrology Dataset Hydrological information for the US. Includes lakes, ponds, streams, rivers, dams, streamguages, and flow modelling.
National Water Quality Assessment Data Warehouse Large amounts of georeferenced data about water quality. Includes ground and surfacewater sampling data, discharges and health information.
OpenTopography OpenTopography facilitates community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources. Supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
NOAA Coastal Service Center Coastal related datasets such as: benthic cover, LIDAR, high resolution ortho, marine jurisdictions, coastal ifSAR, etc.
US Census Bureau US basemaps and US demographic data U.S. Gazetteer, TIGER/Line shapefiles, census data.
National Historical Geographic Information System NHGIS provides free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2012.
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Project (AHCBP) The AHCBP documents all boundary changes in states and counties in United States territory, including non-county areas never before compiled or mapped, providing unrivaled historical and geographic coverage. Primary sources are cited for every change, providing extensive historical documentation.
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services USDA NRCS soil data. Can interact with the dataset with Web Soil Survey online mapping tool.
Libre Map Project Online collection of all digital USGS 1:24K scale topographic maps (as well as various other GIS data) covering the United States, available as a free download.
NPScape United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NPScape is a landscape dynamics monitoring project that provides landscape-level data, tools, and evaluations for natural resource management, planning, and interpretation. [11]
Government ArcGIS server addresses Curated list of 3,500+ ArcGIS server addresses from federal to local. Updated once per week. Bad links fixed or flagged.
NOAA Big Data Project NOAA generates tens of terabytes of data a day from satellites, radars, ships, weather models, and other sources. While these data are publicly available, it is difficult to download and work with such high volumes. NOAA’s vast wealth of data therefore represents a substantial untapped economic opportunity. The NOAA Big Data Project (BDP) was created to explore the potential benefits of storing copies of key observations and model outputs in the Cloud to allow computing directly on the data without requiring further distribution. Such an approach could help form new lines of business and economic growth while making NOAA's data more easily accessible to the American public.

United States Regional

GIS data for United States regions
NameDescription
Maps and GIS of the Great Lakes Region Great Lakes regional GIS datasets on a variety of topics hosted by the Great Lakes Commission.
Regional Ecosystem Office Information Center/Library Datasets developed for the Northwest Forest Plan: DEM, digital raster graphic, land use, watersheds, old growth, habitat, etc.
NOAA Digital Coast Data Registry Search for and download a variety of datasets from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Alabama

GIS data for State of Alabama
NameDescription
Alabama GeoHub Public geodata page for Alabama, maintained through an Esri web platform.
Geological Survey of Alabama Combined sites for the Geological Survey of Alabama and the State of Alabama Oil and Gas Board. Houses / references some Alabama-specific GIS data.

Alaska

GIS data for State of Alaska
NameDescription
Alaska Geospatial Clearinghouse Public data clearinghouse for Alaska.

Connecticut

GIS data for State of Connecticut
NameDescription
CT DEEP GIS Data The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection provides shapefile and ArcGIS datasets.
UCONN MAGIC GIS Datasets The University of Connecticut provides shapefile and KML datasets through its Map and Geographic Information Center.

Florida

GIS data for State of Florida
NameDescription
MyFlorida GIS Resource List List of GIS resources maintained by the office of the governor.
Florida Geographic Data Library Geodata warehouse maintained by the University of Florida's GeoPlan Center.
FGDL Data Sources Data source links maintained by the University of Florida's GeoPlan Center.

Kentucky

GIS data for State of Kentucky
NameDescription
Kentucky Geography Portal The Kentucky Geoportal is a Data Clearinghouse that provides ays to discover and share geospatial data resources. Locate maps and geographic data content for a particular part of the state or search based on keyword or theme type. [12]
Kentucky Open Data Portal The Kentucky Open Data Portal is a site for exploring, accessing and downloading Kentucky-specific GIS data and discovering mapping apps. You can analyze and combine datasets using maps, as well as develop new web and mobile applications. [13]
KyFromAbove The KyFromAbove initiative is focused on building and maintaining a current basemap for the Commonwealth that can meet the needs of its users at the state, federal, local, and regional level. A common basemap, including current color leaf-off aerial photography and elevation data (LiDAR), reduces the cost of developing GIS applications, promotes data sharing, and add efficiencies to many state agency business processes. All basemap data acquired through this effort is being made available in the public domain. [14]
Lexington Open Data Portal Lexington’s Open Data Portal is a collaborative effort between LFUCG and the community. Provides government data in standards compliant, machine readable format. [15]
Louisville/Jefferson County Information Consortium (LOJIC) The Louisville/Jefferson County Information Consortium (LOJIC) is a multi-agency partnership to build and maintain a Geographic Information System (GIS) to serve Louisville Metro and Jefferson County. [16]
Road Centerline and Highway Information System Data The road centerline network and highway information system (HIS) data is collected and maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. [17]

Louisiana

GIS data for State of Louisiana
NameDescription
Louisiana Atlas GIS The Louisiana Atlas is a data distribution system hosting a variety of publicly available GIS datasets for the state of Louisiana. Operated by Louisiana State University. [18]

Maryland

GIS data for State of Maryland
NameDescription
MD iMap The Maryland Integrated Map (MD iMap) is an enterprise statewide mapping system. [19] MD iMap also provides ArcGIS server web services.

Pennsylvania

GIS data for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
NameDescription
Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access State wide GIS datasets provided by Pennsylvania State University
Open Data Philly Data repository for the City of Philadelphia, which includes GIS data-sets relating to the Philadelphia region, available to view and download in various formats
York County Open Data Portal Data repository for York County, which includes GIS data-sets relating to York County PA, available to view and download in various formats

South Carolina

GIS Data for South Carolina
NameDescription
SCGIS Data Page The South Carolina GIS Coordination Council provides links to data maintained by eight coordinated state agencies.

Washington State

GIS data for Washington State
NameDescription
Washington State Geospatial Portal Links to all public-facing GIS data produced/maintained by state agencies in Washington.
Washington State Geospatial Clearinghouse Metadata catalog portal.
University of Washington Libraries Hosted Geodata, aka WAGDA 2.0 Various Washington State GIS datasets on a variety of topics at state- and county-level, hosted by the University of Washington.
Office of Financial Management Census data; economy; county government finance; human services; etc.
Washington State GIS Data A list of data sources at University of Washington Libraries.
Geomorphological Research Group Data from the University of Washington.
WSDOT Geodata Distribution Catalog Datasets from the Washington State Department of Transportation.
GIS Data: Washington State Department of Ecology Large repository of datasets for the state.
Washington State Department of Agriculture Agricultural datasets; complete map of land use.
Puget Sound River History Project Historical GIS data for Puget Sound.
Puget sound LIDAR Consortium Public-domain high-resolution topography for the Pacific Northwest.

South Africa

GIS data for the Republic of South Africa
NameDescription
1map The 1map online GIS repository hosts public domain GIS information for the entire South Africa, including cadastral data, aerial imagery, and topographical data.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Geographic information system</span> System to capture, manage, and present geographic data

A geographic information system (GIS) consists of integrated computer hardware and software that store, manage, analyze, edit, output, and visualize geographic data. Much of this often happens within a spatial database; however, this is not essential to meet the definition of a GIS. In a broader sense, one may consider such a system also to include human users and support staff, procedures and workflows, the body of knowledge of relevant concepts and methods, and institutional organizations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lidar</span> Method of spatial measurement using laser

Lidar is a method for determining ranges by targeting an object or a surface with a laser and measuring the time for the reflected light to return to the receiver. Lidar may operate in a fixed direction or it may scan multiple directions, in which case it is known as lidar scanning or 3D laser scanning, a special combination of 3-D scanning and laser scanning. Lidar has terrestrial, airborne, and mobile applications.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Digital elevation model</span> 3D computer-generated imagery and measurements of terrain

A digital elevation model (DEM) or digital surface model (DSM) is a 3D computer graphics representation of elevation data to represent terrain or overlaying objects, commonly of a planet, moon, or asteroid. A "global DEM" refers to a discrete global grid. DEMs are used often in geographic information systems (GIS), and are the most common basis for digitally produced relief maps. A digital terrain model (DTM) represents specifically the ground surface while DEM and DSM may represent tree top canopy or building roofs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Topography</span> Study of the forms of land surfaces

Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces. The topography of an area may refer to the land forms and features themselves, or a description or depiction in maps.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Esri</span> Geospatial software & SaaS company

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., doing business as Esri, is an American multinational geographic information system (GIS) software company headquartered in Redlands, California. It is best known for its ArcGIS products. With 40% market share as of 2011, Esri is one of the world's leading supplier of GIS software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Generic Mapping Tools</span> Open source collection of mapping tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets

Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) are an open-source collection of computer software tools for processing and displaying xy and xyz datasets, including rasterization, filtering and other image processing operations, and various kinds of map projections. The software stores 2-D grids as COARDS-compliant netCDF files and comes with a comprehensive collection of free GIS data, such as coast lines, rivers, political borders and coordinates of other geographic objects. Users convert further data from other sources and import them. GMT stores the resulting maps and diagrams in PostScript (PS) or Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shuttle Radar Topography Mission</span> Project to create a digital topographic database of Earth

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is an international research effort that obtained digital elevation models on a near-global scale from 56°S to 60°N, to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth prior to the release of the ASTER GDEM in 2009. SRTM consisted of a specially modified radar system that flew on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour during the 11-day STS-99 mission in February 2000. The radar system was based on the older Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR), previously used on the Shuttle in 1994. To acquire topographic data, the SRTM payload was outfitted with two radar antennas. One antenna was located in the Shuttle's payload bay, the other – a critical change from the SIR-C/X-SAR, allowing single-pass interferometry – on the end of a 60-meter (200-foot) mast that extended from the payload bay once the Shuttle was in space. The technique employed is known as interferometric synthetic aperture radar. Intermap Technologies was the prime contractor for processing the interferometric synthetic aperture radar data.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ArcGIS</span> Geographic information system maintained by Esri

ArcGIS is a family of client, server and online geographic information system (GIS) software developed and maintained by Esri.

Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA) is Pennsylvania's official public access geospatial information clearinghouse. PASDA serves as Pennsylvania's node on the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). PASDA is a cooperative effort of the Pennsylvania Geospatial Technologies Office of the Office of Information Technology and the Pennsylvania State University Institute of Energy and the Environment.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">GDAL</span> Translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats

The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a computer software library for reading and writing raster and vector geospatial data formats, and is released under the permissive X/MIT style free software license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It may also be built with a variety of useful command line interface utilities for data translation and processing. Projections and transformations are supported by the PROJ library.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Web mapping</span> Process of using the maps delivered by geographic information systems (GIS) in World Wide Web

Web mapping or an online mapping is the process of using, creating, and distributing maps on the World Wide Web, usually through the use of Web geographic information systems. A web map or an online map is both served and consumed, thus, web mapping is more than just web cartography, it is a service where consumers may choose what the map will show.

A geoportal is a type of web portal used to find and access geographic information and associated geographic services via the Internet. Geoportals are important for effective use of geographic information systems (GIS) and a key element of a spatial data infrastructure (SDI).

The Conservation Geoportal was an online geoportal, intended to provide a comprehensive listing of geographic information systems (GIS) datasets and web map service relevant to biodiversity conservation. It is currently defunct. The site, its contents and functionality were free for anyone to use and contribute to. The Conservation Geoportal was launched on June 28, 2006 at the joint Society for Conservation Biology and Society for Conservation GIS Conference in San Jose, California, USA. As of October 2007, it included metadata for over 3,667 GIS records.

Bhuvan is an Indian web-based utility which allows users to explore a set of geographic content prepared by the Indian Space Research Organisation. The content which the utility serves is mostly restricted to within Indian boundaries and is offered in four regional languages. The content includes thematic maps related to disasters, agriculture, water resources, land cover, and processed satellite data generated by ISRO.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">TimeMap</span>

TimeMap Java is an open-source web mapping application, which was one of the first such applications to introduce generic time filtering and map animation on the web. TMJava is a comprehensive Java mapping applet which can run as a standalone application with local data, on a web site or as a two tier application with a backend server and independent metadata clearinghouse, supporting distributed data sources.

Maryland is among the states in the US that is acquiring lidar data, complementing the National Lidar Dataset effort to acquire high resolution elevation data across the nation. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources coordinates with most counties in the state regarding acquisition specifications, post-processing quality control, and in some cases, distribution. However, in general each county initiates the lidar acquisition.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carto (company)</span> Cloud computing platform

CARTO is a software as a service (SaaS) spatial analysis platform that provides GIS, web mapping, data visualization, spatial analytics, and spatial data science features. The company is positioned as a Location Intelligence platform due to its tools for geospatial data analysis and visualization that do not require advanced GIS or development experience. As a cloud-native platform, CARTO runs natively on cloud data warehouse platforms overcoming any previous limits on data scale for spatial workloads.

Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI, pronounced ) is a NASA mission to measure how deforestation has contributed to atmospheric CO2 concentrations. A full-waveform LIDAR was attached to the International Space Station to provide the first global, high-resolution observations of forest vertical structure. This will allow scientists to map habitats and biomass, particularly in the tropics, providing detail on the Earth's carbon cycle.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset</span> Registry of geographic reference systems

EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset is a public registry of geodetic datums, spatial reference systems, Earth ellipsoids, coordinate transformations and related units of measurement, originated by a member of the European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) in 1985. Each entity is assigned an EPSG code between 1024 and 32767, along with a standard machine-readable well-known text (WKT) representation. The dataset is maintained by the IOGP Geomatics Committee.

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