CIS 245: Open Data Sources

The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts hundreds of surveys every year and prepares reports covering virtually every aspect of U.S. agriculture.

The Census of Agriculture is the leading source of facts and figures about American agriculture. It is the only source of uniform, comprehensive agricultural data for every state and county in the United States.

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) global water information system

United Nations agency providing data on fresh water issues around the globe.

CIESIN works at the intersection of the social, natural, and information sciences, and specializes in on-line data and information management, spatial data integration and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human interactions in the environment.

Provides datasets on environmental issues in the areas of population, health, society, natural systems, climate, energy, transportation, food & agriculture, and economy & policy.

Data for Earth Sciences

The PDS archives and distributes scientific data from NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements.

Search and find climate data from prehistory through to an hour ago in the world's largest climate data archive.

Provides datasets and climate reports (land-based stations, satallite, radal, modelling, weather balloons, marine/ocian, paleoclimatology, and severe weather).

An interactive site from the UN Environment Programme, with data, maps, reports and more.

Provides datasets, maps, data visualizations, charts, and graphs on environmental issues.

Data on environmentally sustainable energy programs in developing countries.

Energy statistics by country

Monthly data for the biggest oil producing and consuming countries.

Contains both experimental and evaluated nuclear data including nuclear reaction ((the properties of interacting nuclei, e.g. cross sections) and nuclear structure (the properties of single nuclei) data.

Company level data on the supply and disposition of natural gas in the United States, Electric power data collected by surveys, international energy statistics, energy country profiles for 217 countries, state and territory energy profiles for the U.S., financial data collected from major energy producers, short-term and historical energy outlook data & projections, and real energy prices.

Provides energy data for more than 215 countries, areas and regions on the production, trade and intermediate and final consumption for primary and secondary conventional, non-conventional and new and renewable sources of energy from 1990 onwards.