| Data Center |
Description |
Data Sets |
| Earth Observation for Sustainable Development of Forests (EOSD) (Canada) |
National maps of Canadian forested land cover, forest composition, land cover change, and forest biomass (in progress). Also Canada Landsat Mosaics. |
Forest Land Cover Mapping |
| Forest Change Monitoring |
| Canada Landsat Mosaics, 1990 and 2000 |
Forest Biomass |
| Data Center |
Description |
Data Sets |
| National Land and Water Information Service (Canada) |
Agri-environmental data on land use, water, climate, and biodiversity. |
Land Cover |
| Agri-Environmental Indicators |
| Canada Land Inventory (Agriculture) Data |
| National Ecological Framework for Canada (Ecostratification Viewer) (GIS Layers) |
| Plant Hardiness Zones of Canada 2000 |
| Data Center |
Description |
Data Sets |
| Global Land Cover Facility |
Remotely sensed satellite data and products that explain land cover from the local to global scales. |
AVHRR Products (GIMMS, GloPEM, Land Cover Classification & Tree Cover Continuous Fields) |
| Landsat Products (Landsat Mosaics, Landsat Geocover Degree Subsets, & Coastal Marsh Health Index) |
| IUCN/UNEP World Database on Protected Areas |
| Data Center |
Description |
Data Sets |
| Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) |
Maps, computer models and data sets to describe the behavior of Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems, hydrological systems, and climate. |
Atlas of the Biosphere |
| IBIS 2.6 (Integrated BIosphere Simulator) Model |
| Global Land Use Data |
| Soil Carbon & Nitrogen Database |
| 1992 Croplands Dataset |
| Historical Croplands Dataset (1700-1992) |
| Global Potential Vegetation Dataset |
| U.S. Irrigated Land (scroll down to US datasets) |
| Data Center |
Description |
Data Sets |
| Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) |
MODIS land products derived from data acquired by the Terra and Aqua satellites. |
Terra & Aqua MODIS Products |
| Data Center |
Description |
Data Sets |
| Department of Geography, McGill University |
Land Use and Global Environmental Change Data including Croplands in West Africa, Agricultural Lands in the Year 2000, Harvested Area and Yields of 175 Crops, and US Historical Croplands and Forests. |
Land Use and Global Environmental Change Data |
| Data Center |
Description |
Data Sets |
| Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) |
Over sixty geospatial data collections relevant to Canada's natural resources via the GeoGratis Data Portal. |
Search NRCan Data Collections by Data Set Title |
| Search NRCan Data Collections by Keyword |
| Search NRCan Data Collections by Product |
| Download Directory for NRCan Data |
| Data Center |
Description |
Data Sets |
| USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Data Center (EDC), Land Cover Products |
Land use/land cover and resource-related data sets derived from USGS and other data sources. |
National Land Cover Data 1992 (NLCD 92) |
| MRLC2001 (Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics 2001) |
| Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) |
| Global Land Cover Characterization (GLCC) |
| Data Center |
Description |
Data Sets |
| LEDAPS: Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System |
Maps of surface reflectance for 1975, 1990, and 2000, and forest disturbance since 1975 for the United States and Canada. |
Reflectance and Forest Disturbance and Regrowth Data Products for North America |
