Free Data Resources
Sacramento Region
These are links to data sets that are in and around the Sacramento Region.
Cities
City of Sacramento
City of West Sacramento
City of Elk Grove
City of Davis
Counties
Sacramento County
Placer County
Yolo County
Napa County
Regional Cooperatives
Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG)
Lake Tahoe - USGS
Mohave Desert Ecosystem
California State Clearinghouse
This site contains a wide variety of free downloadable data sets (vector and raster) throughout California.
CalAtlas - aka California Spatial Information Library
USGS National Map
Created and Maintained by the USGS. This site provides a link to national geospatial datasets throught the entire US. Data scales will range from local - national based on availability.
Some of the data collected in the Sacramento Region will be posted here in the near future as well as the CalAtlas site above.
The National Map
Canadian Data
Geogratis
Offers free data for various Canadian resources. There are some good Landsat images here too.
AVIRIS - Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer
AVIRIS Data
AVIRIS Hyperspectral data available for free at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Obtain free AVIRIS Data for a few small areas.
NASA's World Wind
NASA has a Google Earth-like application called World Wind. The data behind this application contains, Landsat 7, MODIS, RADAR, Hyperspectral, weather, etc. There are also globes of the Moon, Mars, and Venus.
This application will require a recent computer and the Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework to be installed.
