Sources of imagery and GIS data

  • New England FIM data (Arc export files of census geography, photointerpretation points, and FIM plots with degraded coordinates)
  • Guide to Mostly On-line and Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data (links page)
  • Earth Science data on the Global Land Information System (imagery, GIS coverages)
  • Free online USGS Geo Data (DEM's, DLG's, etc.)
  • Huge, excellent list of GIS datasets (maintained by the Water people at USGS)
  • The National Atlas of the United States of America (mostly GIS datasets)
  • Cartographic Boundary Files - U.S. Bureau of the Census (Arc coverages of census geography AND attributes (check the <coverage>.tbl file in the INFO directory) 
  • Spatial Data Links (maintained by SW Texas University)
  • The GIS Data Depot (some free and commercial GIS data and imagery)
  • ESRI's ArcData Online (tons of free/commercial GIS data, some imagery)
  • National Gap Analysis Program (information on GAP and on obtaining data)
  • Locate Your Watershed (EPA's fascinating watershed data site)
  • MRLC Federal Regional Land Cover Datasets (imagery/land cover data)
  • NALC triplicates--link to www page and regional contacts...
  • FAS procurement -- link to Chuck Dull's address...
  • Terraserver (Microsoft's commercial satellite/airphoto site); some free imagery