Geographic Information Systems at the University of Southern Maine

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Online Data

While much GIS data can now be found online through a common internet search engine, the sites listed below are dependable, trustworthy sources of high-quality GIS data

Maine Office of GIS Data Catalog: GIS Data for the state of Maine; primarily vector data but also some tables are raster datasets

GOS - Geospatial One Stop: Federal, State, and Local geographic data on a wide variety of topics

National Atlas: Vector, raster, and table data for the United States on a wide variety of topics

Geospatial Data Gateway: Elevation, imagery, soils data, and climate data for the United States

National Map Seamless Server: Elevation, land cover, and National Atlas data for the United States

United Nations Environment Programme Global Environment Outlook (GEO) Data Portal: Vector and Raster data at the national, regional, and global scales

American Fact Finder: Access to a wide variety of Census data for the United States; primarily tabular datasets

USGS Global Visualization Viewer: Landsat, ASTER, MODIS data among others; a reproduction fee is required for some datasets

USGS Earth Explorer: Satellite imagery and aerial photography, including Hyperion and ALI; a reproduction fee is required for some datasets

GLCF: Global Land Cover Facility: Satellite imagery and products derived from satellite imagery, e.g. Landsat, ASTER, etc.