GIS and Remote Sensing Data Sources
Web Map Services published by the Center for Spatial Analysis & Research (CSAR) - Geography, PSU
- ArcGIS Server: Atlas
- Instructions for accessing CSAR server
- Available data layers:
- 3 feet Lidar DEM and DSM for the Portland metropolitan area
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual 30-year average PRISM precipitation rasters for the whole US (excluding Alaska and Hawaii)
Major Web Digital Data Portals
- USGS Maps, Imagery, and Publications
- The UN FAO GeoNetwork: global to regional scale data from administrative boundaries and agriculture to soils, population, land use, and water resources
- Websites for Digital GIS Data (compiled by Stanford University Library)
- CIESIN at Columbia University
- Websites for Digital GIS Data (compiled by IUFA at University of Washington)
- The European Space Agency Sentinel Online data portal: image-related data sets on land, marine, atmosphere, emergency, and security
- The Atlas of the Biosphere, University of Wisconsin-Madison: global data of human impact, land use, ecosystems, and water resources themes.
- USDA Geospatial Data Gateway
- Natural Earth: small scale public domain dataset for the globe, in vector and raster formats.
- The World Resources Institute: GIS data sets for specific areas of the world.
- [Out of service!]Global Land Cover Facility, the University of Maryland: Landsat, MODIS, Aster, SRTM, and other satellite imagery.
- ESRI Living Atlas of the World
- ESRI Data & Maps
Oregon
Conservation/Environmental
Soil
Land Use Land Cover
Census and Socioeconomic
World/International
Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and Lidar
Remote Sensing