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USGS ScienceBase Catalog
USGS ScienceBase: catalog and repository for USGS science data products, with a JSON item API and geospatial web services for GIS datasets.
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- USGS scientific data products and resources · spatial services for GIS datasets
- Coverage llm-inferred
- United States
- Formats docs-verified
- JSON
- Access llm-inferred
- No authentication required (per ENTRY auth field). Licence not stated in ENTRY or DOCS; the User Agreement is linked but its content is not in DOCS.
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Pull USGS data release metadata via the JSON item API into a desk study records register · Retrieve USGS GIS layers through ScienceBase spatial services for site constraints mapping in a GIS project · Locate USGS hydrological science products for catchment baseline review in a US project
- Audience llm-inferred
- hydrologists · GIS analysts · flood consultants
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Content is USGS-published and US-focused; not a UK data source · Licence and reuse terms are not stated in ENTRY or DOCS · Time span, resolution and update frequency are not stated in DOCS · Availability and format of individual GIS datasets depend on each item
- Licence
- Unknown — check provider terms
- Authentication
- none
- GitHub stars
- Unknown
- Last commit
- Unknown
- Last successful page check
- 14/10/2026
- Page health
- page reachable
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Provenance & evidence
Daily discovery 2026-10-15: page verified 200 (curl + WebFetch); page states items are JSON and ScienceBase API / geospatial services exist.
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · daily-2026-10-15 (agency/portal)