USGS Data Portals

[jeff-cohere]

• USGS National Water Information System (NWIS)
  • USGS Water Services - access to REST APIs
  • Water Quality - this seems to be a work in progress
  • pygeohydro Python module
  • PyGeoOGC - provides general interfaces to web services that are based on ArcGIS RESTful, WMS, and WFS
  • USGS Web Service URL Generation Tool - useful for testing REST API stuff, perhaps
  • Improved Public Delivery of Water Quality and Field Samples Data

[ialarmedalien]

ESS-DIVE has a USGS adapter as part of their basin3d project -- may be worth looking into?

https://github.com/BASIN-3D/basin3d

if you google it you'll find the publication for the software

[jeff-cohere]

It looks like USGS has Globus shares that house much of the data of interest here, so maybe it would be easy to assemble a "usgs" database.