Data sources
Bathymetry / Topography
- The GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) Digital Atlas
- ETOPO5: global 5-arcminute elevation data (land and oceans)
- ETOPO2: global 2-arcminute elevation data (land and oceans)
- International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO)
- The U.S. National Geophysical Data Center: Multibeam Bathymetric Data
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Multibeam Bathymetry Compilations (RIDGE)
- GTOPO30 Global Digital Elevation Model (horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds, only land areas)
- The Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project
- Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie: Bathymetry data
- World Vector Shoreline (WVS) Database and query software at the U.S. National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
- The USGS Coastline Extractor (based on WVS and other sources)
Geodesy
- Geodätisches Institut, Uni Karlsruhe: GPS-Referenznetz Antarktis
- Institut für Planetare Geodäsie, TU Dresden
- SCAR GIANT Program
- Grids & Datums: Detailed descriptions of national grid systems by ASPRS
Miscellaneous
- PANGAEA - Network for Geological and Environmental Data
- Antarctic Digital Database
- United States Antarctic Resource Center (USGS)
- Digital Chart of the World by country (vector data in E00 format)
- Arc Data Online via ESRI
Links
Institutes, Organisations, Projects
- Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
- International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)
- General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean (GEBCO)
- Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR)
- Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
- SCAR Geoscience Standing Scientific Group (GSSG)
- Antarctic Neotectonics (ANTEC): The activities of the expert group have been absorbed within the IPY POLENET Programme
- National Geophysical Data Center
- IEEE Homepage
- Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH)
- Deutsche Hydrographische Gesellschaft e.V.
- Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG)
- Geodatenzentrum im BKG
- Davey Jones' Locker
- The Ocean Mapping Group at the University of New Brunswick
- Ocean Information Center (OCEANIC)
- InterRidge Homepage
- The British Antarctic Survey
- Antarctic Geographic Data Integration
Software
- MB System: Software for the Processing and Display of Swath Sonar Data
- GMT - The Generic Mapping Tools
- iGMT: Interactive Mapping of Geoscientific Datasets
- ArcGMT: A suite of tools for conversion between Arc/INFO and GMT
- CARIS: GIS and hydrographic data processing software
- Interactive Visualization Systems (Fledermaus)
- ESRI: Arc/Info GIS
- The ArcGIS Marine Data Model
- Research Systems: IDL, ENVI, etc.
- PCI: Easi/Pace, Spans, etc.