Data Sources
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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 (available by county) | http://atlas.ca.gov/download.html#/casil/imageryBaseMapsLandCover/imagery/naip/naip_2009/2009_NAIP_sid_county_compressions |
