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Cartographical Data


PRISM Precipitation Maps: 1961-90
PRISM state by state precipitation maps: 1961-90

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Global Climate Maps
53 global climate maps  based on data for mean monthly values of temperature, precipitation and cloudiness prepared in 1991 by R Leemans and W Cramer and published by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

IPA Circumarctic Permafrost and Ground Ice Map
This map contains information for two main mapping parameters based on published information continuity and estimated ground ice content as a permafrost function of thickness of surficial deposits and proximity to bedrock Also included are the glaciers and ice sheets for North America (including Greenland) and the arctic islands that were available from digital data bases

United States Geological Survey National Geologic Map Database Project
Maps and related data for geology, hazards, earth resources, geophysics, geochemistry, geochronology, paleontology, and marine geology.

Unisys Weather: Image and Map Archive
An archive of satellite images, surface maps and upper air data for the past couple of months.

Charts from Office of the Coast Survey
Marine Charts and related products

Historical Map and Chart Collection
The Office of Coast Survey is making available its extensive collection of historical maps and charts in digital scanned form


Satellite Imagery

National Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs)

Alaska SAR Facility ( Alaska, USA)
Sea ice, and polar processes remote sensing data

EROS Data Center (South Dakota, USA)
Land processes remote sensing data

Goddard Space Flight Center (Maryland, USA)
Upper atmosphere, atmospheric dynamics, global biosphere, and geophysics remote sensing data

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California, USA)
Physical oceanography remote sensing data

Langley Research Center (Virginia, USA)
Radiation budget, aerosols, troposphere chemistry, and cloud remote sensing data

National Snow and Ice Data Center (Colorado, USA)
Snow, ice, cryosphere and climate remote sensing data

Oak Ridge National Lab (Tennessee, USA)
Biogeochemical dynamics remote sensing data

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center/Center for International Earth Science Information Network
Human interactions in the environment remote sensing data

Cooperative Data Centers

Global Hydrology Resource Center (Alabama, USA)
Hydrologic cycle and lightning remote sensing data

CINTEX Sites - Catalog Interoperability Experiment, in cooperation with the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites (CEOS)

Satellite Section at the Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)
Atmospheric remote sensing data

Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing (Canada)
Land (RADARSAT) remote sensing data

Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft-und Raumfahrt - Deutsche Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum (Germany)
Atmosphere and land remote sensing data

IRE RAS Center of Processing and Storing the Space Information (Russia)
MIR PRIRODA project remote sensing data

Israel Space Agency - Middle East Interactive Data Archive (Israel)
Atmospheric remote sensing data

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency - Hatoyama Earth Observation Center (Japan)
Atmosphere, land, and ocean remote sensing data

Last Update: December 28, 2005