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Tuesday, 2nd June 2009

USGS and National Park Service Add Content to Data.gov

New files on Data.gov today:

+ Landsat Satellite data: land-surface images of the entire Earth, each approximately 100 mi. x 100 mi., from 1972 to the present.

Landsat provides the world's longest continuously acquired record of global moderate-resolution satellite remote sensing image data of the Earth's land surface, including coastal areas and islands.

Source: USGS

+ USGS Oil and Gas Assessment Database

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has assessed undiscovered oil and natural gas potential for 212 geological provinces throughout the world as part of the US Oil and Gas Assessment, Circum-Arctic Oil and Gas Resource Appraisal and World Energy Assessment .

Source: USGS

+ Imperiled Freshwater and Diadromous Fishes of North America

List of imperiled freshwater and diadromous fishes of North America as determined by the 2008 American Fisheries Society (AFS) Endangered Species Committee (ESC) on Fishes.

Source: USGS

+ National Water Information System (NWIS)

NWIS supports the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of information about water quantity and quality collected at over 1.5 million sites around the U.S.A.

Source: USGS

+ National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program

+ NPS [National Park Service] Focus Digital Library and Research Station

NPS Focus Digital Library and Research Station information system manages images and archives of images as well as documents described by linked metadata and provides cross-repository searching of library catalogs within and external to the NPS.

Source: NPS

+ NWIS - USGS Water Quality Web Service

...National scope of USGS water quality sample and laboratory result data and information obtained from the NWIS/NWISWeb systems

Source: USGS

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