r3d100010054 U.S. Geological Survey including: USGS Science Data Catalog https://www.usgs.gov/products/data-and-tools/overview USGS data and tools are the digital information in a format suitable for direct input to software that can analyze its meaning in the scientific, engineering, or business context for which the data were collected. https://answers.usgs.gov/ sciencedatacatalog@usgs.gov disciplinary institutional 2013 eng 3 Natural Sciences 313 Atmospheric Science and Oceanography 314 Geology and Palaeontology 34 Geosciences (including Geography) https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/#about Archived data Plain text Scientific and statistical data formats Software applications Standard office documents Structured text serviceProvider earthquake ecosystems missions wildlife DataONE Data Observation Network for Earth USA general non-profit https://www.dataone.org ROR:00hr5y405 RRID:SCR_003999 RRID:nlx_158410 2015 support@dataone.org U.S. Department of the Interior USA funding non-profit https://www.doi.gov/ ROR:03v0pmy70 U.S. Geological Survey USGS USA general non-profit https://www.usgs.gov/ ROR:035a68863 RRID:SCR_010168 https://answers.usgs.gov/ Open Data requirements https://project-open-data.cio.gov/ Policies an notices https://www.usgs.gov/policies-notices Policy Principles https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf USGS Data Management https://www.usgs.gov/products/data-and-tools/data-management/overview-data-management open open restricted other Public Domain https://www.usgs.gov/information-policies-and-instructions/copyrights-and-credits restricted registration yes https://www.usgs.gov/products/data-and-tools/apis DOI yes yes FGDC/CSDGM - Federal Geographic Data Committee Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/metadata-standards/fgdccsdgm-federal-geographic-data-committee-content-standard-digital-ge USGS is covered by Clarivate Data Citation Index. USGS science Data Catalog is a member node of DataONE: https://search.dataone.org/#profile/USGS_SDC . Other tools to retrieve USGS Data: The USGS EarthExplorer (EE) for aerial photos, elevation data and satellite products http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/; USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) for Landsat missions, ASTER and MODIS data holdings http://glovis.usgs.gov/; LandsatLookViewer http://landsatlook.usgs.gov/ 2012-09-06 2021-09-03