Data Sources

• Data from the GMS Lab ( GRASS/ARC raster/grid, metadata, vrml; Court Creek and its reference paired watershed Haw Creek)
  • Watershed boundary - mask
  • Digital elevation model
  • Digital raster quadrangles (see sample draped over DEM)
  • Slope
  • Aspect
  • LS-factor
  • Land use 1993
  • C-factor
  • annual soil loss estimated by modified USLE
• Data from Illinois Stream Information System (shape files, numerical data)
  • Streams
  • Monitoring stations
  • Land cover along streams
• Data available on the Interenet
  • Data available on Internet - organized and commented for hydrologic modeling
  • Illinois Natural Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
  • Illinois EPA water quality report (305b)
  • USGS 7.5 minute DEMs (used to create the DEM available above):
    appleton
    galesbg
    oneida
    victoria
    wataga
    wmsfield
    
  • NRCS Technical Resources
  • A EPA Surf Your Watershed page for Spoon River watershed
    (USGS Cataloging Unit: 07130005)
  • Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (USGS)
  • USGS Aerial Photos
• Monitoring and field data (link to research for overview of what is being collected, link here when/if the data become available)
  • EcoWatch (currently no sites at Court Creek or Haw creek)
  • Ambient water quality (EPA)
  • Long Term Resource Monitoring Program, Critical Trends Assessment Program, (INHS)
  • Sheet, rill, gully and streambank erosion inventory (NRCS)
  • Conservation 2000 Transect data (?) (NRCS?)
  • Water and atmospheric resources modnitoring program (ISWS)
  • Waterfowl cencus, fisheries surveys, EcoWatch volunteer stream monitoring program (IDNR)
• Data under development
  • New 10m resolution DEM (USGS, 2000)
  • New 10m resolution land use (SPOT)
  • Digital soil map (January 2000, NRCS)
• Historic data
• Suggested standard data set for watershed planning group (link)

Potential data sources

• LIDAR data for Illinois river watershed
  companies producing LIDAR data:
  Optech, Canada
  TerraPoint
  LIDAR information