profdrmaidment

GIS and Water Resources( DR Maidment-page)

All the links in this page are taken from Professor Maidment data source page, Utexas, Texas, USA

Global Data sources

• Digital Chart of the World
• Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
• HydroSheds – hydrologic derivative datasets from SRTM
• GTOPO30 - 30 arc-second cell (1:1,000,000 scale) global DEM
• Hydro1K – hydrologic derivative datasets from GTOPO30
• EROS Data Center Gateway
• Global Water and Energy Experiment (GEWEX)
• ESRI Geography Network
• WaterGap – world water resources and water use
• GOV of USA inland water resources
• Water Resources Maps and GIS Information
• National Hydrography Dataset
• National hydrography dataset plus
• National Elevation dataset
• Coastline extractor
• Data gateway
• Hydrologic landscape regions of the United States
• NOAA free data
• Maping the world in 3D
• Geography network
• Stallite data (Earth observing system data gateway)
• SNOTEL Data & Products

• Land Use/Land Cover Data

• National Land Cover Institute
• Land cover data on the seamless server
• USGS Land Use/Land Cover (LULC)
• National Wetlands Inventory Center
• National Atlas of the United States
• Hydrologic Landscape Regions of the United States
• -- description

• Geospatial One Stop (A central source for US Government data. This is a very large compendium of data sources and also information about data.)
• Google Earth (An online map viewer with rapid imagery and terrain presentation.)
• Water Resources Maps and GIS Information A link to 12 data sources with map data from the USGS or organizations connected with the USGS.

• Description and data
• NHD in Geodatabase
• NHDPlus (A new dataset that integrates the National Hydrography Dataset and National Elevation Dataset.)
• National Inventory of Dams

• Statsgo – State Soil Database (1:250,000 scale)
• Ssurgo – County Soil Database
• Statsgo is available for the whole United States. Ssurgo is much more detailed but is available only in some counties. For an exercise on how to interpret Statsgo, see: click here
• USDA Data Gateway

Climate

• National Climate Data Center
• NCDC Climate Data Online Description of how to use Climate Data Online:
• USDA Water and Climate Center (PRISM maps of mean precipitation)
• For an exercise using PRISM and land cover data to estimate nonpoint source pollution, see:
• National Center for Atmospheric Research DayMet (Gridded daily precipitation and temperature on a 1 km grid, 1980—1997.)

• Texas Natural Resource Information System
• TNRIS Data

Utah Data

• Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center, contains USGS Maps, DEM's, Orthophoto quads within Utah and Free. Also includes if you look hard enough, liquefaction potential, Hydrography and Environmental data for certain locations.
• Western Regional Climate Center
• Nexrad data NEXRAD Stage III Precipitation data and procedures for using it.
• Snotel and NRCS National Water and Climate Center.
  • Bear River Watershed Information System.
• Great Salt Lake Basin Hydrologic Observatory.
• Utah Climate Center.
• MesoWest climate network.

Others

For more useful web links, see:

Prof. Maidment class

Dr D Tarboton page (UTAH)

Water links

CUAHSI

surface water page

Gis dam break analyses

wrap hydro tools

Image and image products data sources

• Intermountain region digital image archive center
• Utah GIS portal
• Magic
• Texas natural resources information system
• Landsat USGS
• Glovis