The Earth Sciences & Map Library supports geographic information system (GIS) software and data services across all disciplines for the UC Berkeley campus. The library collects GIS data for areas around the world, with an emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area and northern California.
User-friendly, powerful cloud-based mapping software for creating web maps and performing analysis. Includes access to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World and premium content, including demographic, environmental, and imagery data.
ArcGIS Online enables users to build interactive maps, create web-based apps, and perform spatial analysis in browser-based software. UC Berkeley users have access to a wide range of content including imagery, basemaps, demographics and lifestyle, landscape, boundaries and places, transportation, earth observations, urban systems, oceans, and historical maps that can be combined with users' own data to create maps, scenes, and apps and perform analysis. ArcGIS Online also includes tools for geocoding, geoenrichment, network analysis, and spatial analysis. UC Berkeley affiliates may log in with their Calnet credentials for full access at https://cal.maps.arcgis.com
Catalog of hundreds of research datasets funded by Forest Service Research and Development or by the Joint Fire Science Program. Includes long-term datasets from a number of Forest Service Experimental Forests, Ranges, and Watersheds.
Reference work containing detailed datasheets on trees and forest pests, full-text of selected articles and reports, a multilingual glossary of forest terms, species distribution maps, and images.
Access to large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.
Access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Sanborn maps are historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists. Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years.
Provides user-friendly access to full-color Sanborn and other fire insurance maps from roughly 1875-1950s. Maps may show building structures, building construction details, property uses, and other information. Subscription includes California only. Users can search the platform by place name or through an interactive map. Maps can be accessed online or downloaded in full resolution.
Irregular report from the USFS containing annual statistics. Note that this link may not always point to the most recent report - search Google or Treesearch for the report title.
Records of news articles and other documents pertaining to logging, forest conditions, and forest fires in the early 1900s. Arranged by county. A similar compilation is available for Nevada.
