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Marine Geosphere Data Websites

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• Asia Pacific Natural Hazards Information Network - Hurricanes, tropical storms, tsunamis, earthquakes

• ETOPO1 Global Relief Model - 1 arc-minute global relief model of Earth's surface that integrates land topography and ocean bathymetry...available in "Ice Surface" (top of Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets) and "Bedrock" (base of the ice sheets) versions

• Global Land Cover Facility Data and Products - Includes satellite imager, products derived from imagery, and the World Database on Protected Areas

• Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project - A 30-arc-second (1-km) gridded, quality-controlled global Digital Elevation Model (DEM)

• Measured and Estimated Seafloor Topography - Smith and Sandwell 1-degree topography and gravity datasets

• National Seamless Map - View and download US and international mapping data. Places; Structures; Transportation; Boundaries; Hydrography; Orthoimagery; Land Cover; Elevation. Includes SRTM data

• PANGAEA: Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data - Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE) uses PANGAEA as its data archive and distribution system

• PLATES Project - Plate tectonics maps from the University of Texas

• SRTM-Plus - Global relief dataset at 30-second resolution. Includes SRTM 30-sec data, Smith & Sandwell 1-minute bathymetry (resampled), and other high-resolution data, where available

• Total Sediment Thickness of the World's Oceans & Marginal Seas - Global grid derived from published sources

• US NGDC Interactive Web Services - One of the better WMS sites on the Internet, due to the very generous provision of downloadable data. Topics include hazards, marine geology data, global ecosystems.

• UCAR/CISL Geophysical Datasets - Includes relief, landcover and soil-related data

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Information about this article

Short title: Geosphere Websites

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Expertise level: beginner

Author: Murray.Brown

Approval status: approved

Approved by: Murray.Brown

Last change: 2008-11-6

Subsection of: Marine Data Gateway

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