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Digital Scholarship Center
Data Repositories and Discovery
- Data.gov: a portal to find datasets published by the US governments covering geospatial data.
- ArcGIS Open Data: discover and download data hosted by ArcGIS Open Data repository.
- EarthData (EOSDIS) by NASA: interactive browser to view and download global base layers including real-time satellite imagery. See also Historical Earth Data Archive Site.
- Geobrain (Remote Sensing Data Products, GMU Online Repository): Landsat, MODIS, ASTER and NASA ECHO data.
- Healthdata.gov: search the U.S. health care data and download recently added big datasets with the API.
- Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability (LANCE): NASA Real-time Data and Imagery.
- National Climatic Data Center: access to U.S. climate and weather datasets from satellite or land-based stations.
- NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research): Earth Science data portal for NCAR and UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (sponsored by NSF).
- NOAA Science on a Sphere: a discovery took for NOAA repository for air, water, snow & ice, land and more.-check also National Ocean Archive System (NODC).
- NGDC (National Geophysical Data Center of NOAA): access to bathymetry, global relief, national hazard,solar event, geomagnetic data, etc.
- NSIDC (National Snow and Ice Data Center): access to scientific data for glaciers, ice, snow, and more.
- SEDAC (SocioEconomic Data and Application Center): multi-disiplinary datasets including remote sensing (hosted by CIESIN at Columbia University).
- US Census Bureau: access U.S. Census data and tools for visualizations.
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USGS Real-time Data: Earthquakes, Water, Floods, Geomagnetism, Remote Sensing and Landsat. Volcanoes, Droughts, & more.
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