FedData

Download Geospatial Data Available from Several Federated Data Sources

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Download geospatial data available from several federated data sources (mainly sources maintained by the US Federal government). Currently, the package enables extraction from nine datasets: The National Elevation Dataset digital elevation models (https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program 1 and 1/3 arc-second; USGS); The National Hydrography Dataset (https://www.usgs.gov/national-hydrography/national-hydrography-dataset; USGS); The Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database from the National Cooperative Soil Survey (https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/; NCSS), which is led by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the USDA; the Global Historical Climatology Network (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/global-historical-climatology-network-daily; GHCN), coordinated by National Climatic Data Center at NOAA; the Daymet gridded estimates of daily weather parameters for North America, version 4, available from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Distributed Active Archive Center (https://daymet.ornl.gov/; DAAC); the International Tree Ring Data Bank; the National Land Cover Database (https://www.mrlc.gov/; NLCD); the Cropland Data Layer from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Cropland/SARS1a.php; NASS); and the PAD-US dataset of protected area boundaries (https://www.usgs.gov/programs/gap-analysis-project/science/pad-us-data-overview; USGS).


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Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 1,216 times in the last 30 days. Now we’re talking! This work is officially 'heard of in academic circles', just like those wild research papers on synthetic bananas. The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 7 times.

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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 11,189 times in the last 365 days. The academic equivalent of having a dedicated subreddit. There are fans, and maybe even a few trolls! The day with the most downloads was Feb 12, 2025 with 180 downloads.

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