Map Section of Geoscience Australia
Provides access to mapping resources for Australia including: the Interactive Map of Australia; the Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (ACRES); Satellite Data; Digital Maps; Paper Maps; Digital Data; and Geodetic Data.
Canada
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Natural Resources Canada
(NRCan) is a federal government department specializing in the sustainable development and use of natural resources, energy, minerals and metals, forests and earth sciences.
Centre for Topographic InformationGeological Survey of Canada
Atlas of Canada
France
IGN France International
A subsidiary of the French National Geographic Institute (Institut Géographique National) is a geographic engineering company.
Institut Géographique NationalGreat Britain
Ordnance Survey
Britain's national mapping agency
Greece, Classical
Perseus Atlas Project
A part of the Perseus project's efforts to build an interrelated collection of hypermedia databases focused on classical Greece.
United Nations
United Nations Cartographic Section
United States
GeoCommunicator
GeoCommunicator is the publication site for the Bureau of Land Management's National Integrated Land System (NILS). GeoCommunicator provides searching, accessing and dynamic mapping of data for federal land stewardship, land and mineral use records, and land survey information. GeoCommunicator provides spatial display for land and mineral cases from BLM's LR2000 system.
US Census BureauNational Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
NIMA combines the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA), the Central Imagery Office (CIO), and the Defense Dissemination Program Office (DDPO) in their entirety; and the mission and functions of CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center. Also included in NIMA are imagery exploitation, dissemination and processing elements of the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office and the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office. The NIMA Geospatial Engine provides users with various digital datasets for download. These datasets include DTED 0, VPF, DOI, and CADRG.
U.S. Geological Survey homepageThe USGS serves the Nation as an independent fact-finding agency that
collects, monitors, analyzes, and provides scientific understanding
about natural resource conditions, issues, and problems. The four major
divisions of the USGS are Biology, Geology, Mapping and Water.
The Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center (EDC) is a data management, systems development, and research field center for the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Mapping Division. The EDC's mission has changed and grown over the years. Its original mission was to receive, process, and distribute data collected and transmitted to the EDC by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Landsat satellites. Since its opening, the EDC has stored, processed, and distributed a variety of data, including cartographic data, satellite data, and aircraft data. The EDC houses a variety of USGS digital cartographic data products collectively referred to as US GeoData. The EDC's archives also hold the world's largest collection of civilian remotely sensed data covering the Earth's land masses, housing millions of satellite images and aerial photographs. As part of its role as a data archive, the EDC operates the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive, a legislatively mandated program designed to maintain a high quality data base of space-acquired images of the Earth for use in studying global change and other related issues. The EDC is designated as a World Data Center for Remotely Sensed Land Data and is a cooperator in many domestic and international programs. In 1996, the EDC completed the addition of a 65,000-square-foot addition to its existing 115,000-square-foot facility in order to support activities in its role as a distributed active archive center associated with NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) Program, NASA's Earth Science Enterprise initiative, and NASA's launching of the Landsat-7 satellite. Since 1991, the EDC has supported the United Nations Environment Programme/Global Resources Information Database, making environmental data available to developing countries.
Mid-Continent Mapping Center @ Rolla, MissouriThe Mid-Continent Mapping Center is one of several mapping centers in the National Mapping Divison (NMD) of the USGS. It is a production, research, and data management faciltiy for maps and digital cartographic data products. Some of the products available are USGS Topographic Maps; SDTS (Spatial Data Transfer Standard) Translator Information; DEM (Digital Elevation Model); ATSys (Aero-Triangulation System) FTP Site; National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Geospatial Data available from USGS.
National Geodetic Survey (NGS) HomepageThe National Geodetic Survey (NGS) defines and manages the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) - the framework for latitude, longitude, height, scale, gravity, orientation and shoreline throughout the United States. NSRS provides the foundation for transportation, communication, and defense systems, boundary and property surveys, land records systems, mapping and charting, and a multitude of scientific and engineering applications.
National Park ServiceDigital visitor use maps are available for download. Digitally rendered, 3-D perspectives and animations of selected National Parks are available for viewing and/or downloading.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service GISGeographic Information Systems and Spatial Data
National Resouces Conservation Service (NRCS)Formerly the Soil Conservation Service.
USDA National Cartography and Geospatial CenterCompiled by Mary W. Scott, Geology Librarian, Orton Memorial Library of Geology
Designed by Michael C. Veres, Student Library Assistant
Last updated: February 16, 2006