Datasource
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This page contains links to datasources that are relevant for environmental investigations. Some of these datasets are already viewable on the maps on this site; visit https://publiclab.org/people where you can view and turn on layers by using the layer panel in the upper righthand corner:
To learn more about the Leaflet Environmental Layers project that powers the map shown above, and request additional layers to be added, visit https://publiclab.org/notes/sagarpreet/06-06-2018/leaflet-environmental-layer-library
Water-Related Data
| Type of Data | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Landsat Data | Links to data from US satellites | https://www.usgs.gov/products/data-and-tools/real-time-data/remote-land-sensing-and-landsat |
| NASA Ocean Data | Sea surface temperature, chlorophyll concentration, and other global ocean data | https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php#ocean |
| NCEI Marine/Ocean Data | NCEI receives and archives meteorological data from ships at sea, moored and drifting buoys, coastal stations, rigs, and platforms. The temporal frequency of the observations range from sub-hourly to six-hourly synoptic and are global in spatial coverage. | https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/marineocean-data |
| NOAA tides and currents | Information on tide and currents in the US | https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ |
| USGS Water Data | Water Quality Data in the US | https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt |
Land-Related Data
Air-Related Data
| Type of Data | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Global Radar Data | NCEI's Radar Archive includes the Next Generation Weather Radar System (NEXRAD) and Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) networks. The NOAA Radar Operations Center provides centralized meteorological, software, maintenance, and engineering support and documentation. | https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/radar-data |
| NASA Atmospheric Data | Carbon monoxide, cloud water density, and other global data | https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php#atmosphere |
| NOAA Land-Based Data | Land-based, or surface, observations include temperature, dew point, relative humidity, precipitation, wind speed and direction, visibility, atmospheric pressure, and types of weather occurrences such as hail, fog, and thunder collected for locations on every continent. | https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-based-station-data |
| NOAA Weather Balloon data | Weather data from the atmosphere, beginning at three meters above the Earth's surface, are considered weather balloon or upper air data | https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/weather-balloon-data |
Satellite Imagery & Data
| Type of Data | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Map A Planet | Information on the surfaces of planets in our solar system | https://www.mapaplanet.org/ |
| MapKnitter | Collection of Maps created and shared by community scientists | mapknitter.org |
| MODIS | Real-time weather satellite Imagery | http://ge.ssec.wisc.edu/modis-today/ |
| Satellite Data Services | Real-time weather data international | https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/datacenter/ |
| NASA Energy Data | Radiation, temperature, and other global data sets | https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php#energy |
| NOAA Satellite Imagery | Global Satellite Imagery | https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/satellite-data/satellite-imagery |
Miscellaneous Data
| Type of Data | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Alternative energy | Source of data sets, maps, models, and tools for the analysis of energy and energy-efficiency technologies. | https://www.nrel.gov/research/data-tools.html |
| CDC Oral Health Data | Information on Oral Health in the United States | https://www.cdc.gov/oralhealthdata/ |
| Disney wait times | Wait times for rides at disney parks | https://touringplans.com/walt-disney-world/crowd-calendar#DataSets |
| Educational Statistics | Annual reports of US Educational Statistics | https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/ |
| EPA Environmental Data Gateway | Collection of US Government Environmental Data Sets | https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/catalog/main/home.page |
| Environmental Exposome | Public Health Exposome provides a systems approach designed to capture the totality of one’s exposures across the lifespan from conception to death. | http://communitymappingforhealthequity.org/environmental-data/ |
| Environmental Data & Governance Initiative | Working with partners we preserve vulnerable scientific data and web pages from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and other agencies. | https://envirodatagov.org |
| FishNet | Global Database of Fish Collection Specimens | http://www.fishnet2.net/ |
| HerpNet | Global Database of Herpetological Collections | http://www.herpnet.org |
| National Bullying Statistics | Bullying Statistics in the US | https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d14/tables/dt14_230.45.asp |
| NOHSS Adult Indicators | Adults who have visited a dentist in the United States | https://chronicdata.cdc.gov/Oral-Health/NOHSS-Adult-Indicators-Adults-who-have-visited-a-d/c2kg-wtx6 |
| OECD Environmental Data Collection | Collection of data on climate, forest, air quality, etc curated by OECD | https://data.oecd.org/environment.htm |
| Paleoclimatology Data | Paleoclimatology data are derived from natural sources such as tree rings, ice cores, corals, and ocean and lake sediments. | https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data |
| Planetary Fact Sheet | Information on planets in our solar system | https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/ |
| PV cell output data | Information on solar panel power output globally | https://pvoutput.org/outputs.jsp |
| US County-level Data | County-by county information on prisons, energy, etc | https://ce.naco.org/ |
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