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Resources: Online Databases, Search Agents, Software, and Other Tools

Available for Free Online

The following websites are a collection of online databases and search agents useful for collecting data, aerial imagery and maps, GIS, methods, and general information.

BioBot
Biological search agent for the Web; provides increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources
Digital Watershed
Provides interactive watershed maps for anywhere in the entire US. You can see watersheds from broad 8-digit scale to 12-digit watersheds
EarthTrends
A comprehensive online database that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world; offers the public a large breadth of statistical, graphic, and analytical data
EnviroMapper
View federal, state, and local information about environmental conditions and features in an area of your choice
GRANIT
Provides access to New Hampshire's statewide geographic information system (GIS)
National Environmental Methods Index
NEMI provides a mechanism to compare and contrast the performance and relative cost of analytical, test, and sampling methods for environmental monitoring
NAWQA Water Quality Data Warehouse
Chemical, biological, and physical water quality data from 42 study units (basins) across the nation
NIWR Online Program Management System (NIWR.net)
This system is used to collect reporting data and proposal submissions for the State Water Resources Research Institute Program
NWISWeb Data
These pages provide access to water resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico
OneStop Environmental Monitoring Database
Contains field observations, measurements, and laboratory samples for various programs within the Department of Environmental Services (DES) and other agencies which choose to participate
Resource Clearinghouse for Rapidly Growing Communities
Provides a user friendly, dynamic database of community assistance providers, publications and other tools, experts and consultants, and community stories to the public via the World Wide Web
StreamStats
A Web-based tool that allows users to obtain streamflow statistics, drainage-basin characteristics, and other information for user-selected sites on streams
Terraserver
Includes high resolution USGS aerial imagery and USGS topographic maps
TMDL Website
Total Maximum Daily Load Program with fact sheets, new proposed regulations, digitized maps of impaired waters in each state, and a TMDL Tracking System database
Water Information Center
This portal has more than 100 peer reviewed reports from the National Academies that offer independent, objective advice on many water-related issues in the United States and abroad.
ZONECONC
A computer program that tabulates concentration data using the results from the U.S. Geological Survey Modular Three-Dimensional Ground-Water Flow and Solute-Transport Model (MODFLOW-GWT)

 

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CommunityViz
Provides GIS-based analysis and real-world 3D modeling that allows people to envision land use alternatives and understand potential impacts, explore options and share possibilities, and examine scenarios from all angles — environmental, economic, and social.
Impervious Surface Analysis Tool (ISAT)
Used to calculate the percentage of impervious surface area of user-selected geographic areas (e.g., watersheds, municipalities, subdivisions). The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center and the University of Connecticut Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO) Program developed this tool for coastal and natural resource managers. ISAT is available as an ArcView® 3.x, ArcView 8.x or an ArcView 9.x extension.
INDEX
A suite of GIS planning tools that are used to benchmark existing conditions, create alternative scenarios, evaluate alternatives, and monitor change over time.
MetroQuest
An interactive planning support tool that evaluates alternative future scenarios on the fly, facilitates the creation of sustainable visions, and supports the implementation of smarter plans.
PLACE3S
An acronym for PLAnning for Community Energy, Economic and Environmental Sustainability and is a program jointly supported by the state offices in California, Oregon and Washington. PLACE3S is an innovative planning method that fully integrates focused public participation, community development and design, and computer-assisted quantification tools (GIS) to help communities produce plans that retain dollars in the local economy, save energy, attract jobs and development, reduce pollution and traffic congestion and conserve open space.
UrbanSim
A software-based simulation model for integrated planning and analysis of urban development, incorporating the interactions between land use, transportation, and public policy.
What If?
A user friendly GIS-based system that can be used to explore alternate futures for a community and prepare long-term land use, population, housing and employment projections for enumeration districts, political jurisdictions, and user-defined areas such as school districts, and traffic analysis zones.

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