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Resources>  Data>  Data by Subject

Data Resources by Subject

Administrative boundaries

Cal-Atlas
Includes administrative, cultural, political, physical, and transportation geospatial data for the State of California.

Global Administrative Areas (GADM)
Administrative boundaries on a global scale available in shapefile or ESRI geodatabase formats. Includes both country boundaries, and lower level subdivisions such as provinces, departments, bibhag, bundeslander, daerah istimewa, fivondronana, krong, landsvæðun, opština, sous-préfecture, counties, and thana.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Formerly known as Digital Chart of the World (DCW) Vector Map (VMap) is available at two scales, level 0 (1:1,000,000) is available globally, and level 1 (1:250,000) is available for select locations. Vmap data sets include boundaries, elevation, hydrography, industry, physiography, population, transportation, utilities, and vegetation. Click on the map to download a region.

U.S. Census Bureau
Boundary files available for various administrative scales

Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system (TIGER)
Shapefiles available containing features such as roads, railroads, rivers, as well as legal and statistical geographic areas. Updated October 2009.

Bathymetry

CDFG bathymetry data
Points, lines and imagery available by shapefile and grid.

NGDC Bathymetry, Topography and Global Relief Page
NGDC compiles, archives, and distributes bathymetric data from coastal and open ocean areas, including acting as the long-term archive for NOAA National Ocean Service

Biological Data

CalGAP Project
Predicted distributions for terrestrial vertebrate species at UCSB

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Global repository for biological data

Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
Global repository for marine biological data

Ornithological Information System (Ornis)
National repository for ornithological biological data

FishNet
Global repository for fish biological data

Mammal Networked Information System (MaNIS)
Global repository for mammal biological data

HerpNet
Global repository for herpetological biological data

NatureServe
Repository for a variety of biological data

Climate

Cal-Adapt
Modeled Climate change projection data for the State of California in both raster and tabular formats.

United States Historical Climatology Network
Historical Climate Station Data or download via FTP.

PRISM Climate Data Layers
Available from the Spatial Climate analysis Service

Worldclim
Current, past, and present interpolated global climate data sets

University of Delaware Global Climate Resource Pages
Historic Global Climate

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Future climate change scenario projections

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Paleoclimatology data

Demography

UC Data
UC Berkeley's principal archive of digitized social science data and statistics. Access to to non-public microdata from the Census can be provided by submitting a proposal to the CCRDC. Proposals are reviewed for feasibility, scientific merit, benefit to the Census Bureau, and disclosure risks.

U.S. Census Bureau
Census data available for various administrative scales

Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system (TIGER)
Shapefiles available containing features such as roads, railroads, rivers, as well as legal and statistical geographic areas. Updated October 2009.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Formerly known as Digital Chart of the World (DCW) Vector Map (VMap) is available at two scales, level 0 (1:1,000,000) is available globally, and level 1 (1:250,000) is available for select locations. Vmap data sets include boundaries, elevation, hydrography, industry, physiography, population, transportation, utilities, and vegetation. Click on the map to download a region.

Ecoregions/ Bioregions

CalGAP Project
Jepson ecological region boundaries of California from UCSB

Fire

NPS-USGS National Burn Severity Mapping Project
Burn Severity Data sets *

CDF-FRAP
Fire Perimeters and other fire data for California

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Fire Data

Land Cover/ Land Use

NOAA-CCAP
NOAA-CCAP Land Cover data
Extent: U.S.
Resolution: 30 meters

CalGAP Project
California GAP Analysis Project's LANDCOV data set at UCSB
Extent: California
Minimum mapping unit (MMU): 40-100 acres

LANDFIRE
LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation, 2005
Extent: U.S.
Resolution: 30 meters
See GIF for attribute information for the Existing Vegetation Type (EVT).

USGS Multi-Resolution Land Characterization (MRLC) USGS
National Land Cover Data set (NLCD) for 1992, 2001, 2006
Extent: U.S.
Resolution: 30 meters

USDA Cropland Data Layer (CDL
Cropland Data Layer
Extent: U.S.
Resolution: 30 meters

CDF-FRAP
LCMMP vegetation, land cover change, calveg, and other vegetation (hardwood, rangeland, coastal redwood, etc.) data
Extent: California
Minimum mapping unit (MMU): 2.5 acres

NASA
Global Change Master directory

Marine Current & flow data

CDFG marine data
Points, lines and imagery available by shapefile and grid

Northern California ocean current data
COCMP provides near real-time mapping of coastal surface circulation along the entire California Coast.

Protected Areas

World Database on Protected Areas
Extensive UN collection of protected area geospatial data collected from multiple sources and available globally.

California Protected Areas Database (CPAD)
A GIS inventory of all protected open space lands in the State of California.

Soils STATSGO and other soils data

STATSGO
The Digital General Soil Map of the United States or STATSGO2 is a broad-based inventory of soils and non-soil areas that occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at the scale mapped of 1:250,000 in the continental U.S., Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands and 1:1,000,000 in Alaska.

STATSGO
The Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) Database was collected at scales ranging from 1:12,000 to 1:63,360. More details were gathered at a scale of 1:12,000 than at a scale of 1:63,360.

Topography & Elevation

BARD (SF Bay only)
Digital Elevation Models (DEM)

Cal-Atlas (CA only)
Digital Elevation Models (DEM)

CSU Northridge Geography Dept (CA only)
Digital Elevation Models (DEM)

USGS
NED and SRTM Digital Elevation Models (DEM)

CGIAR
"Gap-filled" SRTM Digital Elevation Models (DEM)

USGS National Map Data Server
National Digital Elevation Models (DEM) available through custom webGIS

GIS Data Depot
Digital Elevation Models (DEM)

CalGAP Project
Shaded Relief at UCSB (CA only)

USGS
Digital Topographic Maps/ Digital Raster Graphics (DRGs)

GIS Data Depot
Digital Topographic Maps/ Digital Raster Graphics (DRGs)

NCALM @ UC Berkeley
LiDAR data of Napa County, Eel River Watershed, and other locales

Transportation

Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system (TIGER)
Shapefiles available containing features such as roads, railroads, rivers, as well as legal and statistical geographic areas. Updated December 2008.

U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. TIGER line street files

ESRI
ESRI data TIGER line street files

Cal-Atlas Transportation
Major California roads

CalGAP Project
Major California roads

BARD (for SFF Bay only)
Major California roads

Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Major California roads

Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
Bay Area roads and highways, transit, etc.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Formerly known as Digital Chart of the World (DCW) Vector Map (VMap) is available at two scales, level 0 (1:1,000,000) is available globally, and level 1 (1:250,000) is available for select locations. Vmap data sets include boundaries, elevation, hydrography, industry, physiography, population, transportation, utilities, and vegetation. Click on the map to download a region.

Urban & Environmental

Wildland-Urban Interface data
Files related to wildland-urban interface in the US

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Formerly known as Digital Chart of the World (DCW) Vector Map (VMap) is available at two scales, level 0 (1:1,000,000) is available globally, and level 1 (1:250,000) is available for select locations. Vmap data sets include boundaries, elevation, hydrography, industry, physiography, population, transportation, utilities, and vegetation. Click on the map to download a region.

Watersheds

CDF-FRAP
Watershed data, boundaries

Cal-Atlas
Watershed boundaries

EPA
Watershed boundaries

BARD (SF Bay only)
Hydography, Rivers & Streams

GIS Data Depot
Hydography, Rivers & Streams

Wetlands

SFEI
San Francisco Estuary Institute data

NOAA-CCAP
NOAA-CCAP Land Cover data, 2000
Extent: Coastal California counties
Resolution: 30 meters

 

Weather

DAYMET
Daily Surface Weather and Climatalogical Summaries

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Wind data

CIMIS
Weather station data

 

Remotely-sensed Image Data Resources

Satellite & Airborne Imagery

Glovis USGS
Interactive webMap interface for locating and acquiring Landsat, ASTER, and MODIS image data. Use this source to locate and download free Landsat and MODIS data, covering the entire archive.

USGS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC)
ASTER & MODIS data. Choose "Data Pool" to access free current ASTER data for the US.

Global Land Cover Facility
Large archive of select free Landsat, MODIS, and ASTER data worldwide

National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP)
1-meter resolution imagery of the entire state of California acquired in 2005 and 2009

Cal-Atlas
CalView Landsat image data

EarthExplorer USGS
Extensive search and ordering interface for the majority of USGS image data holdings

OhioView
Global image data source

CalGAP Project
Landsat TM of California from UCSB

Spot Catalog
SPOT Image data

CDFG
Spot image data for California

JPL, NASA
AVIRIS hyperspectral airborne data

Processed Imagery

NOAA Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution (OSDPD)
Imagery processed with Indices for Vegetation, Coral Bleached, Precipitation, Wind, Heat, etc.

Global Land Covwer Faclity (GLCF)
Products derrived from Landsat, MODIS, AVHRR and other image collections

 

Data Resources by Geographic Area

SF Bay

DataSF
San Fransisco Datasets

Association of Bay Area Governments

Bay Area Automated Mapping Association (BAAMA)

Bay Area Regional Database (BARD)

City of Berkeley GIS

San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI)

Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)
Bay Area Roads & Transit

SF Ports
Wind data

Bay-Delta and Tributaries Database (BDAT)
Water Quality Data with GPS Locations

Contra Costa County GIS

Marin County GIS

MarinMap.org

San Francisco County GIS

Sonoma County GIS

Other California county websites

California

Cal-Atlas

Cal-Adapt

US Forest Service, Region 5 GIS Data Clearinghouse

California Dept. Forestry-Fire Resource Assessment Program (CDF-FRAP)

California Protected Areas Database (CPAD)

California GAP Analysis Project

California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES)

GIS Data Depot

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Northern California

U.S.

U.S. Census Bureau
Boundary files available for various administrative scales

Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system (TIGER)
Shapefiles available containing features such as roads, railroads, rivers, as well as legal and statistical geographic areas. Updated December 2008.

Berkeley/Penn Urban & Environmental Modeler's Datakit
Data compiled by the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) at the University of California, Berkeley. These data contain ESRI shapefiles and grids describing many of the physical, administrative, transportation, demographic, economic, land use and land cover, and environmental characteristics of the 48 contiguous United States from the Berkeley/Penn project. Vector and raster data are available for download.

MRLC
Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics data

EPA MRLC
EPA's Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics data

USGS National Map

National Atlas

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

International

Global Administrative Areas (GADM)
Administrative boundaries on a global scale available in shapefile or ESRI geodatabase formats. Includes both country boundaries, and lower level subdivisions such as provinces, departments, bibhag, bundeslander, daerah istimewa, fivondronana, krong, landsvæðun, opština, sous-préfecture, counties, and thana.

DIVA-GIS website
Free international data sources

Global

Global Administrative Areas (GADM)
Administrative boundaries on a global scale available in shapefile or ESRI geodatabase formats. Includes both country boundaries, and lower level subdivisions such as provinces, departments, bibhag, bundeslander, daerah istimewa, fivondronana, krong, landsvæðun, opština, sous-préfecture, counties, and thana.

DIVA-GIS website
Free international data sources

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Formerly known as Digital Chart of the World (DCW) Vector Map (VMap) is available at two scales, level 0 (1:1,000,000) is available globally, and level 1 (1:250,000) is available for select locations. Vmap data sets include boundaries, elevation, hydrography, industry, physiography, population, transportation, utilities, and vegetation. Click on the map to download a region.

World Database on Protected Areas
Extensive UN collection of protected area geospatial data collected from multiple sources and available globally.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Global repository for biological data

Worldclim
Current, past, and present interpolated global climate data sets

CGIAR
"Gap-filled" 90 meter SRTM Digital Elevation Models (DEM)

 

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