Scientific Data

The eoPortal aims to open the door to the world of Earth Observation resources and satellites. Here you can watch the Earth from Space and admire the stars and the other planets with our real-time Satellite Tracker. The Satellite Tracker shows the orbits and locations of many earth observation satellites in real time.

In 1854 there was a massive cholera outbreak in Soho, London – in three days over 120 people died from the disease. Famously, John Snow plotted the locations of the deaths on a map and found they clustered around a pump in Broad Street – he suggested that the pump be taken out of service – thus helping to end the epidemic. This then helped him formulate his theory of the spread of cholera by dirty water.

Snow’s work is often used as a case study in courses in GIS and the geographies of health. So, I thought – why not convert Snow’s data into a format that will work with modern GIS systems to allow students (and others, of course) to analyse the data themselves with all of the capabilities of modern tools.

So, that’s what I did – and the data is available to download as SnowGIS.zip.

ProMED - the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases - is an Internet-based reporting system dedicated to rapid global dissemination of information on outbreaks of infectious diseases and acute exposures to toxins that affect human health, including those in animals and in plants grown for food or animal feed. Electronic communications enable ProMED to provide up-to-date and reliable news about threats to human, animal, and food plant health around the world, seven days a week.

ProMED is open to all sources and free of political constraints. Sources of information include media reports, official reports, online summaries, local observers, and others. Reports are often contributed by ProMED subscribers. A team of expert human, plant, and animal disease moderators screen, review, and investigate reports before posting to the network. Reports are distributed by email to direct subscribers and posted immediately on the ProMED web site. ProMED currently reaches over 70,000 subscribers in at least 185 countries.

By providing early warning of outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging diseases, public health precautions at all levels can be taken in a timely manner to prevent epidemic transmission and to save lives.

Project Tycho is a project at the University of Pittsburgh to advance the availability and use of public health data for science and policy making. Currently, the Project Tycho® database includes data from all weekly notifiable disease reports for the United States dating back to 1888. These data are freely available to anybody interested. Additional U.S. and international data will be released twice yearly.

A wide range of oceanographic, biological, geological, atmospheric, and geophysical data are available from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The WHOI Data & Repositories webpage hosts links to dozens of libraries and archives.

CDC’s WISQARS™ (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive, online database that provides fatal and nonfatal injury, violent death, and cost of injury data from a variety of trusted sources. Researchers, the media, public health professionals, and the public can use WISQARS™ data to learn more about the public health and economic burden associated with unintentional and violence-related injury in the United States.

A comprehensive index of data and statistics available by topic as well as computational tools and resources for finding and evaluating data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WONDER online databases utilize a rich ad-hoc query system for the analysis of public health data. Reports and other query systems are also available. Databases include birth and mortality statistics, specific disease statistics (e.g., AIDS, cancer, tuberculosis), vaccine adverse event reports, environmental climate data, and more.

TimeZoneDB provides free time zone database for cities of the world. The database is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. It contains countries name, time zones, abbreviation, GMT offset, and Daylight Saving Time (DST). The data is available in CSV and SQL format. You can download and implement into your projects for free.

The PDS Geosciences Node Orbital Data Explorer (ODE) website is a cross-mission and instrument query, search, display, and download tool for locating and retrieving PDS orbital science data archives of Mars, Mercury, Venus, and Earth's moon.

The Geosciences Node of NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) archives and distributes digital data related to the study of the surfaces and interiors of terrestrial planetary bodies. We work directly with NASA missions to help them generate well-documented, permanent data archives. We provide data to NASA-sponsored researchers along with expert assistance in using the data. All our archives are online and available to the public to download free of charge.

Use the Analyst's Notebook to explore planetary data from NASA Mars and lunar landed missions. The Notebook integrates sequence information, engineering and science data, and documentation into standard web-accessible pages. Missions include Curiosity, Opportunity and Spirit, Phoenix, LCROSS, and Apollo. The Analyst's Notebook is produced by NASA's PDS Geosciences Node at Washington University in St. Louis.

The Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA) is a multi-mission NASA center of expertise for cosmic microwave background radiation research. LAMBDA exists to serve the CMB research community, and the greater cosmological research community. This site provides CMB researchers with archive data from NASA missions, software tools, and links to other sites of interest.

BOON is a coastal ocean observing system centered at Bodega Marine Laboratory (38º19.110' N 123º04.294' W) and focused on the coasts of northern California. It is a node in larger regional, national and global observing systems. BOON's aim is to work toward the development of innovative science and products that benefit society and the economy through pursuit of a sustainable relationship between humans and the ocean. These products are data-based and derived from the deployment and operation of state-of-the-art ocean observing technology.

WRI produces maps, charts, data sets, infographics, and other visual resources as part of our commitment to turn “information into action.” These products are based on our data and research, which are held to traditional academic standards of excellence, including objectivity and rigor.

Browse our full library of visual resources, or search by type, topic, or geography via the Advanced Search option.

CAIT is one of the most trusted sources of climate data available. It is a free and open source for comprehensive and comparable climate and emissions data. CAIT is made up of a suite of tools that allow users to utilize the data to understand considerations of equity in climate negotiations, see transparency and available information in country climate action comitments, interact with historical emissions data, and dive into the methodologies behind future emissions projections. CAIT allows national governments, international organizations and independent researchers to perform relevant analysis and promote efficient action on climate change.

Core Science Analytics, Synthesis, and Libraries (CSAS&L) is formerly the Biological Informatics Program (BIP) and Core Science Informatics (CSI) Organization under the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Core Science Systems (CSS) Mission Area. The two groups merged on October 24, 2011.

CSAS&L broadens its focus to incorporate all of USGS by maintaining key expertise in biological informatics and by leveraging current expertise and capacity to strengthen the USGS leadership role in scientific data management and preservation. These efforts advance the capacity of CSAS&L to conduct synthesis, analysis, and visualization of scientific data and reduce duplication of effort.

CalEnviroScreen is a screening methodology that can be used to help identify California communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution. CalEnviroScreen is provided by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), on behalf of the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA).

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) supports research into our world’s frozen realms: the snow, ice, glaciers, frozen ground, and climate interactions that make up Earth’s cryosphere. NSIDC manages and distributes scientific data, creates tools for data access, supports data users, performs scientific research, and educates the public about the cryosphere.

Welcome to Geotripper Images! What you will find here is a collection of geology/earth science related photographs which are available for use by educators and non-profit organizations to advance public understanding of earth processes and materials. High resolution versions of these images are available to publishers.