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GIS Data In-house and on the Internet



- In-house GIS data
- GIS Data Sources on the Internet


In-house GIS data

Sumatra Database
Database of the Great Sumatran Fault, islands and coastlines, and on-shore geology, in ARC/INFO coverage format.

GIS Data Sources on the Internet

Census

The TIGER Page
U.S. Census Bureau Home Page

DEM (Digital Elevation Model)

1-Degree USGS Digital Elevation Models (A tutorial and data links)
California 7.5 Minute DEMs (Calif. State Northridge collection)
GTOPO30 Global 30 Arc Second Elevation Data Set
GTOPO30 FTP site

Earthquake

Harvard Seismology: Centroid-Moment Tensor Project
Southern California Current Earthquake Information

Geographic Names

PUBLIC NIMA GNPS QUERY FORM
USGS Mapping Information: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

Geology

U.S. Geological Survey
Western Mapping Center Main Page
USGS Central Region Digital Maps, Data, and Software
GSC Atlantic's Earth Science Site of the Week

Imagery

Refer also to the Remote Sensing Web Page
NIMA PUBLIC HOME PAGE

Street data

Geographic Data Technology, Inc.

Topography

GTOPO30 - Global Topographic Data
GTOPO30 Documentation

Others

Federal Geographic Data Committee
NGDC/WDC A for MGG - SOEST/NOAA High-resolution Shoreline Database
NSIDC Data Catalog: AARI 10-Day Arctic Ocean EASE-Grid Sea Ice Observations Extent (NSIDC-0050)
The Graphics File Format Page
USDOC/NOAA/NESDIS/National Geophysical Data Center
USGS Quad Conversions (map conversions)



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