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Remote-geomod wiki

On this page, we collect additional information and updates for the use of remote-geomod and geological mapping using GoogleEarth.

Useful online information

We provide here a list of websites with related information for geological mapping and modeling using GoogleEarth.

General field mapping:

Geological data sets

Digital Mapping Webpages	Website to interchange information on digital mapping maintained by Terry Pavlis; Contains generic files for digital mapping as well as tutorials for basic digital mapping software
Stereonet	Website of Stereonet Mobile maintained by Rick Allmendinger - a free software to collect field data digitally with smartphones and plot them instantaneously in the field

Globale dataset: One Geology

An international initiative of geological surveys to make geoscience data accessible

In addition many countries include digital geological data on the websites of their geological surveys. Some websites with comprehensive data sets are given below.

Swisstopo	Switzerland
BRGM	France
USGS	USA
SERC Carleton	Thematic Maps on Geology and other topics hosted by SERC Carleton

Topography

A list of websites with topographic information:

NOAA	30-arc-second (1-km) gridded, quality-controlled global Digital Elevation Model hosted by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NOAA)
SERC Carleton	Link collection to US national and global topographic data sets. Includes SRTM data