Data Sources and Tools
These sites provide on-line or downloadable tools for visualizing or manipulating data or datasets that can be used in the classroom.
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- Geospatial 7 matches GIS, GPS, Remote Sensing
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Geography
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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 ...
Real-time weather data: Surface Data Page part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) offers a variety of data on their Real-time Weather Data website. The Surface data page provides an interface so that users can retrieve weather ...
US Census Bureau: State and County QuickFacts part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This US Census Bureau site contains figures based on the 2000 census. The QuickFacts include information about people, businesses, and geography. Data presented on individual states can be compared ...
United States Census Bureau: Statistical Abstract of the United States part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This publication is produced by the US Census Bureau, and provides the most recent census findings as well as older abstracts (1995 to 2000) so that comparisons between years can be made. Relevant ...
GNIS: Geographic Names Information System part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) provides information on almost 2 million physical and cultural geographical features in the United States. The U.S., its territories, and Antarctica are ...
ArcVoyager Makes ArcView Easy! part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from ESRI features ArcVoyager. The program is a 50-mb package of carefully selected data, ArcView projects, and help files in a tiered format, available as free downloads in both Windows ...
Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Profiles part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This NASA website features an interactive map that provides access to Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) profiles. Zooming in twice on the interactive map displays individual MOLA tracks; clicking ...
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera Image Gallery part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from Malin Space Science Systems provides access to all of the images acquired by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) during the Mars Global Surveyor mission through March 2005. MOC consists of ...
Google Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection
In collaboration with NASA researchers at Arizona State University, Google has created scientific maps of Mars. The site provides detailed map images of Mars, is searchable by feature or region, and ...