IDL Resources

GLOBAL COASTLINES, LAND/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY DATA SETS

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project
  HYDRO1k Elevation-derived Products
• GADM database of Global Administrative Areas
• National Geophysical Data Center
  GSHHS - A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database v1.10
• Global Land Cover Facility Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS)
  The GIMMS data set is a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) product
  
• Liam Gumley's Plotting GSHHS coastline data in IDL
• National Geophysical Data Center Coastline Extractor
• U.S. Geological Survey
  GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds
  HYDRO1k Elevation Derivative Database | Australasia
• National Geophysical Data Center GLOBE Project
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography Global Topography | FTP site