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This guide provides a comprehensive list of online sources of geospatial data. Many of the sources on this list are websites of government agencies or organizations that provide open access to the vector and raster geospatial data that they have collecte

U.S. Data Portals

Starting your Search for National Level Data

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

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