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Data Sources and Tools

This is the Geoscience subset of our Data Resources collection. To browse through the entire collection of data sources and tools, just go to the Using Data in the Classroom page.




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The Visualization Tool Kit (VTK) part of Data, Simulations and Models:Tool Sheets
An image created with the Visualization Toolkit showing ice surface velocity from a modeled collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Image by Chuck Anderson, Penn State University. submitted by Chuck Anderson, ...

Sea Ice Index part of Data, Simulations and Models:Tool Sheets
submitted by Walt Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder General Description The Sea Ice Index (more info) is a collection of data and tools to examine sea ice trends and data. ...

Exploring NASA Aerosol Data in the Classroom part of DataSheets
NEO gives access to georeferenced NASA satellite imagery and provides the means for easy export into other browsers (like GoogleEarth) or analytic tools (like ImageJ or ICE). The site also contains the MODIS Blue Marble, which is a series of monthly true-color global composite images.

Exploring NASA Aerosol Data in the Classroom part of Using Data in the Classroom:Datasheets
NEO gives access to georeferenced NASA satellite imagery and provides the means for easy export into other browsers (like GoogleEarth) or analytic tools (like ImageJ or ICE). The site also contains the MODIS Blue Marble, which is a series of monthly true-color global composite images.

Rogers Atlas of Rocks in Thin Section part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site comprises more than 100 images of whole petrographic thin sections, mostly in paired plane- and polarized-light views. Images are hosted at gigapan.com, and most are >20,000 ...

ModeMaker Software part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This is a program for the Macintosh that allow the user to create diagrams with up to five phases each with a known size mode shape color aspect ratio and alignment. These diagrams can be used by ...

PASDA Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access: The Pennsylvania Geospatial Data Clearinghouse part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access, PASDA, is the State Geospatial Data clearinghouse for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. PASDA is also a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Clearinghouse ...

The Gapminder World 2006 part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Gapminder is a non-profit venture developing information technology for provision of free statistics in new visual and animated ways. Goal: enable you to make sense of the world by having fun with ...

University of New Hampshire Global Runoff Data Center part of SERC Web Resource Collection

A global hydrological database is considered essential for research and application-oriented hydrological and climatological projects at global, regional and basin scales. This includes water balance ...

National Data Buoy Center part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The National Weather Service provides weather and marine data from buoys surrounding North America, the Carribean, and Great Britain. Historical and realtime data are featured. Data include wind, ...



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