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| Field | Data | File Type | Description | Source URL |
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| Elevation | DEM | .DDF Raster Dataset | 24K of New York, Kings and Queens County | geo COMMUNITY |
| NED | .img Raster Dataset | The National Elevation Dataset (NED) is a seamless dataset with the best available raster elevation data of the conterminous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and territorial islands | USGS National Elevation Dataset | |
| - | - | Global DEM, SRTM, and Blue Marble data | USGS & NASA - Global Data Explorer | |
| GMTED2010 | - | The Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) is a notably enhanced global elevation model developed by the the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) | GMTED2010 | |
| HYDRO1K | - | Geological database developed to provide comprehensive and consistent global coverage of topographically derived data sets, including streams, drainage basins and ancillary layers | USGS HYDRO1k | |
| SRTM | DTED and SRTM Raster | The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth | USGS SRTM | |
| Imagery | Emergency Response Imagery | .jpg Image | The aerial photography missions were conducted by the NOAA Remote Sensing Division. The images were acquired from a nominal altitude of 7,500 feet, using a Trimble Digital Sensor System (DSS) | NOAA's Ocean Service, National Geodetic Survey (NGS) |
| Imagery from different satellites | - | NASA - Earth Observing System Data and Information System | Reverb | ECHO | |
| - | USGS - Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS) | USGS Global Visualization Viewer | ||
| Land Cover | - | - | 1-km resolution global land cover characteristics database | Global Land Cover Characterization |
| Boundary | Boroughs | .shp Shapefile | Boundaries of Boroughs of New York City | New York City Department of City Planning |
| Community Districts | .shp Shapefile | Boundaries of Community Districts of New York City | New York City Department of City Planning | |
| Locality | .shp Shapefile | Boundaries of Locality (not publicly available) | New York State Public Service Commission | |
| Miscellaneous | Imagery from different satellites | - | USGS EarthExplorer | EarthExplorer |
| A data source of various GIS data | - | USGS The Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) | LP DAAC | |
| - | GeoCommunity Nationwide and Statewide data | GeoCommunity United States | ||
| - | USGS The National Map Viewer | USGS TNM 2.0 Viewer | ||
| - | USGS LP DAAC Other Data Links | Other Data Links | ||
| - | USGS Emergency Response | Emergency Operations Portal | ||
| - | Free GIS Data | Free GIS Datasets | ||
| Transit | New York City Subway Routes | .shp Shapefile | GIS data set of subway routes and stations in New York City based on MTA's latest GTFS data (February 11, 2013) | Steven Romalewski, CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research: Routes ; Stations |
| New York City Subway Stations | ||||
| Entrance and Exit Locations | Web page spreadsheet | MTA NYC Transit Subway Entrance And Exit Data, containing "a variety of information on subway station entrances and exits which includes but is not limited to: Division, Line, Station Name, Longitude and Latitude coordinates of entrances/exits." | State of New York Open Data |
Acknowledgment: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation RAPID Collaborative for Hurricane Sandy under Grant Number CMMI 1316290 (Professor Dorothy Reed at the University of Washington), CMMI 1316301 (Professor Carol Friedland at the Louisiana State University) and CMMI 1316335 (Professor Rae Zimmerman at New York University).
Disclaimer: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number CMMI 1316290 RAPID Collaborative for Hurricane Sandy. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.