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! Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI)
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! Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI) Phase 2B
| Energy project sites, substations, powerlines statewide, CREZ (Phase 2B for latest)
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| California energy project sites, substations, powerlines statewide, CREZ
 
| http://www.energy.ca.gov/reti/documents/index.html
 
| http://www.energy.ca.gov/reti/documents/index.html
 
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! Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI)
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! Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI) Phase 2A
| Transmission corridors, land ownership, disturbed areas, wildlife (Phase 2A)
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| California transmission corridors, land ownership, disturbed areas, wildlife
 
| http://www.energy.ca.gov/reti/documents/index.html
 
| http://www.energy.ca.gov/reti/documents/index.html
 
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! BLM Solar PEIS
 
! BLM Solar PEIS
| shapefiles of solar potential, administrative, some wildlife (core and extended databases, listed in http://solareis.anl.gov/documents/dpeis/maps/shape/Solar_PEIS_Shapefile_Contents.pdf)
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| shapefiles for western states of solar potential, administrative, some wildlife (core and extended databases, listed in http://solareis.anl.gov/documents/dpeis/maps/shape/Solar_PEIS_Shapefile_Contents.pdf)
 
| http://solareis.anl.gov/maps/gis/index.cfm
 
| http://solareis.anl.gov/maps/gis/index.cfm
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! BLM Cal office Geospatial downloads
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| Calif coverages and geodatabases of admin, grazing allotments, OHV and rec, renewable ROW (updated weekly?)
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| http://www.blm.gov/ca/gis/
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! BLM
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| Mining claims and energy projects
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| http://www.blm.gov/nils/GeoComm/home_services.html
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! Mojave Desert Ecosystem Project
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| On-request layers for admin, disturbed soils for Mojave only, desert tortoise critical habitat areas
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| http://www.mojavedata.gov/gis.html
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! USGS Desert Tortoise Habitat Model
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| ASCII rasters of environmental data for topo, soil factors, climate, veg cover
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| http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1102/
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! Conservation Biology Institute Tehachapi project
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| spreadsheet of data layers and sources for western mojave
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| ask David for current xlsx file
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! Central Mojave Vegetation Database
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| veg coverage with condition attributes
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| online source not yet found, but see http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=13890 for details
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! The Nature Conservancy
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| data layers for deserts of road density, land use, and condition index
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| ask David for layers
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! EPA
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| Brownfields and other toxic sites with their potential for renewable energy
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| http://www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland/data.htm (also see http://www.epa.gov/enviro/geo_data.html)
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! USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP)
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| 1 meter digital multispectral imagery from 2009 (available by county)
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| http://atlas.ca.gov/download.html#/casil/imageryBaseMapsLandCover/imagery/naip/naip_2009/2009_NAIP_sid_county_compressions
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! FEMA
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| Transmission lines (used by EPA to rate their sites for renewables)
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| http://www.mapcruzin.com/renewable-energy-us-electric-transmission-shapefiles.htm
 
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Latest revision as of 11:29, 29 March 2011

GIS data

Status 03/24/11

Source agency Description URL
Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI) Phase 2B California energy project sites, substations, powerlines statewide, CREZ http://www.energy.ca.gov/reti/documents/index.html
Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI) Phase 2A California transmission corridors, land ownership, disturbed areas, wildlife http://www.energy.ca.gov/reti/documents/index.html
BLM Solar PEIS shapefiles for western states of solar potential, administrative, some wildlife (core and extended databases, listed in http://solareis.anl.gov/documents/dpeis/maps/shape/Solar_PEIS_Shapefile_Contents.pdf) http://solareis.anl.gov/maps/gis/index.cfm
BLM Cal office Geospatial downloads Calif coverages and geodatabases of admin, grazing allotments, OHV and rec, renewable ROW (updated weekly?) http://www.blm.gov/ca/gis/
BLM Mining claims and energy projects http://www.blm.gov/nils/GeoComm/home_services.html
Mojave Desert Ecosystem Project On-request layers for admin, disturbed soils for Mojave only, desert tortoise critical habitat areas http://www.mojavedata.gov/gis.html
USGS Desert Tortoise Habitat Model ASCII rasters of environmental data for topo, soil factors, climate, veg cover http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1102/
Conservation Biology Institute Tehachapi project spreadsheet of data layers and sources for western mojave ask David for current xlsx file
Central Mojave Vegetation Database veg coverage with condition attributes online source not yet found, but see http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=13890 for details
The Nature Conservancy data layers for deserts of road density, land use, and condition index ask David for layers
EPA Brownfields and other toxic sites with their potential for renewable energy http://www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland/data.htm (also see http://www.epa.gov/enviro/geo_data.html)
USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) 1 meter digital multispectral imagery from 2009 (available by county) http://atlas.ca.gov/download.html#/casil/imageryBaseMapsLandCover/imagery/naip/naip_2009/2009_NAIP_sid_county_compressions
FEMA Transmission lines (used by EPA to rate their sites for renewables) http://www.mapcruzin.com/renewable-energy-us-electric-transmission-shapefiles.htm