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Data Download Site(s)
EPA Enviro Atlas Data
https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-data-download-step-2
USGS Mineral Resources Online
https://mrdata.usgs.gov/
NOAA National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/gis/svrgis/
NOAA Severe Weather Data Inventory
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/swdi/
NOAA National Center for Environmental Information
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data/datasets
NOAA National Hurricane Center
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/
NOAA Office for Coastal Management
https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/data/home.html
FEMA Data Portal
https://www.fema.gov/data-feeds
NASA AVIRIS (Airborne Visible / Infrared Imaging Spectrometer) Data Portal
https://aviris.jpl.nasa.gov/alt_locator/
National Ecological Observatory Network Data Portal
https://data.neonscience.org/apps/browse
U.S. Census Bureau TIGERLine Data
https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-geodatabase-file.html
Hydroshare
https://www.hydroshare.org/search/
Science Base
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (PWRC) Migratory Bird Research (MBR) Data
https://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/shape_ra12.html
Building footprints for the United States generated by Microsoft
https://github.com/microsoft/USBuildingFootprints
Trees species spatial prevalence data for the contiguous United States
https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2013-0013
Spatial Distribution of Invasive Plant Species in the United States
https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/datasets.php?xmlKeyword=Current+Invasive+Plants
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