Ocean Explorers

Exploring the Ocean with GIS

Project Stories

Students from Newbury Park High School use My World GIS to investigate earthquake data and locate the center of the 2004 magnitude 9 earthquake and resulting tsunami that devastated Indonesia. Activity created by Debbie Dogancay, Rabia Kabani, Stephen Svoboda.    more...

 
GIS Data Links
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  Link   California Spatial Information Library (CaSIL)
The California Spatial Information Library (CASIL) provides downloads of shapefiles, aerial images, satellite data, digitized topographic maps, and other GIS data.
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  Link   Davey Jones' Locker Treasure Chest of Web Links
This "treasure trove of links" is offered as a service of Dawn Wright's Davey Jones' Locker lab to help seafloor mapping and marine and coastal GIS specialists, students, and interested parties to find helpful information and data. The site is mainta
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  Link   EPA's Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources (BASINS)
The Better Assessment Science Integrating Point & Nonpoint Sources (BASINS) Web site provides data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for every watershed in the United States. Data sets include elevation, streams, main roads, dams, land u
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  Link   GIS Data Depot
GIS Data Depot provides a large collection of free spatial data including TIGER Census Data, Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), National Wetlands Index digital data files, and Digital Line Graphs (DLGs). Digital Ortho Quadrants (DOQQs), Digital Raster
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  Link   NOAA's Coastal Assessment and Data Synthesis Site
The Coastal Assessment and Data Synthesis project provides ocean data with national (continental United States) coverage.
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  Link   NOAA's Coast Watch Central Operations
NOAA's Coastwatch Central Operations makes data and imagery available from a variety of sensors and satellites, including sea surface temperature, ocean chlorophyll, and ocean surface winds data.
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  Link   NOAA's Coastwatch West Coast Regional Node
The NOAA Coastwatch West Coast Regional Node is one of several sites throughout the United States set up for the processing and distribution of CoastWatch information. Data and imagery available include sea surface temperature, ocean chlorophyll colo
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  Link   NOAA's Digital Coast: Legislative Atlas
The Digital Coast: Legislative Atlas uses on-line maps to help individuals visualize where selected coastal and ocean laws apply to facilitate regional collaboration. It also provides a searchable database of coastal and marine legislation, summaries
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  Link   NOAA's Drifting Buoy Data Assembly Center
Each year, several hundred drifting buoys are deployed by NOAA to track currents and oceanic conditions. NOAA’s Drifting Buoy Data Assembly Center provides links to all of the drifting buoys currently deployed. Summary charts and individual buoy da
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  Link   NOAA's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)
The NDBC provides links to each of the stationary weather buoys operated by NOAA. Most of their buoys are located in near shore waters surrounding the continental United States. Current (updated hourly) and historical data are available for viewing a
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  Link   Physical Oceanography Distribution Archive Center (PO.DAAC) ESIP Tool
The Physical Oceanography Distribution Archive Center (PO.DAAC) Ocean Earth Science Information Partner Tool (POET) is a project of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. POET provides current and archived sea surface temperature, sea surface temperatur
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  Link   TerraServer
Terraserver provides free public access to a vast data store of maps and aerial photographs of the United States.
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  Link   TIGER Census 2000 Data
TIGER The TIGER Data download site provides ArcView shapefiles that contain data about the following features: Line Features—roads, railroads, hydrography, and transportation and utility lines. Boundary Features—statistical (e.g., census tr
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  Link   USGS EROS Data Distributed Active Archive Center
USGS EROS Data Distributed Active Archive Center The Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Distributed Active Archive Center of the U.S. Geological Survey provides elevation data for the United States and world in GIF images on CD-ROM. Eac
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