Data sources

Sample data

• NCSU GeoForAll Lab data: https://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/data.html
• LSU Landscape data: http://baharmon.github.io/data
• GRASS GIS sample data: https://grass.osgeo.org/download/sample-data/
• Data for the book Tangible Modeling with Open Source GIS: http://fatra.cnr.ncsu.edu/tangible_landscape/

Global data

• USGS EarthExplorer
• USGS Landcover Institute
• ESA Climate Change Initiative Open Data Portal
• Global Landcover Facility
• CGIAR-CSI
• Global Map
• Natural Earth
• GRASS-Wiki List of Global Datasets
• Open Street Map Extracts from Geofabrik
• Open Street Map Extracts from Open Map Tiles

Elevation data

• National Map Viewer
• US Interagency Elevation Inventory
• Digital Coast
• Open Topography
• ALOS Global Digital Surface Model
• EU-DEM
• UK Open Data Lidar

Web mapping services (WMS)

• USGS NAIP Orthoimagery web mapping service
• r.in.usgs

r.in.wms url=https://services.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/services/USGSNAIPPlus/MapServer/WMSServer output=orthophoto layers=0

Soil data

• USDA Soil Survey
• European Soil Data Centre Datasets

Ecological data

• USGS GAP Analysis Program
• Landfire
• Bison Biodiversity Data
• NEON
• Protected Planet
• IUCN Red List
• Anthromes
• WWF Conservation Science Datasets

European data

• Copernicus Pan-European Data
• European Environment Agency
• UK Open Data

North Carolina data

• North Carolina Spatial Data Download
• State Climate Office of North Carolina