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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 |
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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 |
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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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Available for Purchase
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. PLACE 3S 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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