Data Sources

GIS data

Status 03/10/11

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	http://www.epa.gov/enviro/geo_data.html
USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP)	1 meter digital multispectral imagery (but can only download in small tiles or order a region)	http://seamless.usgs.gov/website/seamless/viewer.htm