Orignal Post:
Hello All,
Sorry for the cross-post on several lists.
I am very intrestested in constructing a list of all digital surface data,
such as, geomorphology, soils, surfacial geology, other associated
data sets, and a list of companies/organizations that construct data of
this type in a digital form.Currently, My list:
Data Set From
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Interim Terrain Data (ITD) DMA
Tactial Terrain Data (TTD) DMA
State Soil Geographic Data Base (STATSGO) US DEPT. Ag. NRCS
Soil Interpretation Record Data Base (SIR) US DEPT. Ag. NRCS
National Soil Geographic Data Base (NATSGO) US DEPT. Ag. NRCS
National Soil Characterization Data US DEPT. Ag. NRCS
Map Unit Interpretattion Record DataBase (MUIR) US DEPT. Ag. NRCS
Soil Survey Geographic Data Base (SSURGO) US DEPT. Ag. NRCSIf any one has any further information if you send it to me
(tmiller@bvu-lads.loral.com).I'll post a summary of all my findings, and try to give a
short descriptions of all the data sets.Thanks
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I would like to thank all the people who replied to my
question. I'll keep an on going list if you want any
info in the feature please let me know and if you have
any info you would like to add please send it to me.
General Overview and Summary of all replies
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From: Paul Loechl, loechl@diego.cecer.army.mil
o Manual of Federal Geographic Data Products
o National Geophysical
o Data Center, and state soil agenices
From Michael Ballard, ballard@igs.net
Pole Star Geomatics is supposed to be a well rounded GIS consulting
and service firm, but it seems most of my work lately has been on
surficial materials data sets. I see your list so far is primarily
U.S. gov't data. I can add a few pointers to Canadian gov't data
authors. You should check out:
The Canadian Soil Information System ( CanSIS )
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
http://res.agr.ca/home.html
From: Chris Duncan, duncan@GEOLOGY.GEO.CORNELL.EDU Chris Duncan
o Digital Chart of the World (DCW)
From: Gail Taylor, taylor@vinny.cecer.army.mil
Many of the state agencies in the United States also
produce digital data layers for those mentioned. They
are too numerous to mention but you might want to make
note of this in your list.
From: Carrie J. Patterson, patte018@maroon.tc.umn.edu
The Minnesota Geological Survey produces digital versions of our
maps. We have just started doing this but some of our older map
products have been digitized by the users. The state office called
Land Management Information Center (LMIC) is a clearing house for
all digital data for the state of Minnesota.
From: Greg Tucker, tucker@farallon.geosc.psu.edu
Digital Chart of the World (DCW)
Eros Data Center: http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/eros-home.html
USGS: http://www.usgs.gov/
From: Dr. John Fels, fels@unity.ncsu.edu
The Design Research Laboratory at the School of Design, North Carolina
State University, produces a variety of digital terrain layers from
digital elevation models. These are topographic (geomorphometric)
characterizations intended for environmental and ecological modeling
applications.
Data layers potentially include:
Elevation, meters
Elevation, feet
Slope, percent
Slope, degrees
MaxSlope, percent
MaxSlope, degrees
Aspect, degrees
Aspect, Beers transformation (several versions)
Terrain Shape Index (TSI, after McNab)
Slope Profile Curvature
Slope Section Curvature
Net Slope Curvature
Landscape Position (several versions)
Landform Index (LFI, after McNab)
Aspect-weighted Landform Index
These include basic elevation data, first-order derivatives, second-order
derivatives, mesoscale characterizations, and fractal-scale
characterizations. All of these are produced using custom algorithms
written here at the Design Research Laboratory. Many of these are either
not availble in commercial GIS applications or are superior to the
versions provided by those applications (e.g. slope). New terrain
variables are being developed on an ongoing basis, and more will be added in
the future.
From James P. McCalpin, mccalpin@geohaz.com
USGS has digital geologic maps of several states (AZ,AR,CO,KY,OR,UT,WY) in
ARC/INFO export format, available for ftp at greenwood.cr.usgs.gov
From: Owen K. Davis, palynolo@geo.arizona.edu, amd
From: JONATHAN D. PHILLIPS, GEPHILLI@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU
NGDC is offering a CD-ROM "Global Ecosystems Database"
with ... topography, soils...
They're at info@ngdc.noaa.gov
From: Nancy Voorhis, nancy@aspiring.unh.edu
...there is a new system on line here in New Hampshire that I have been
working on, which makes the GRANIT database available on the Web. The
GRANIT database is the statewide repository for GIS data for the state
of new hampshire and includes a variety of data layers which you can
browse at the Web Site.
The URL is:
http://nhresnet.sr.unh.edu
From: Sue Tewalt, stewalt@ncrds.er.usgs.gov
I'd list the USGS products anyway:
digital elevantion model, 7.5' 15' 1-degree units
digital line graph 7.5' 15' 30' (transportation, hydrography)
land use land cover 30' 1-degree units (sometimes "dated" info)
digital orthophoto quadrangles
US Forest Service cartographic feature files
various forms of satellite imagery available from EROS data center