Geological, geophysical, geochemical, or lidar data acquisition projects funded by the Earth Mapping Resource Initiative (Earth MRI) pertaining to the study of critical mineral resources in the US.
Show in a web browser window:
Show in Google Earth or other KML viewer:
data-acquisition.kml (uncompressed 7.8M bytes)
data-acquisition.kmz (compressed 1.9M bytes)
Show in your GIS using OGC web services:
https://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/emri-project (WMS, version 1.3.0)
https://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/wfs/emri-project (WFS, version 1.1.0)
Get the entire data set:
EarthMRIAcquisitionsV_7_1_SHP.zip (Shapefile with additional CSV attribute tables, zipped. 1.2M bytes)
EarthMRIAcquisitionsV_7_1_GJSON.zip (GeoJSON feature collection with additional CSV attribute tables, zipped. 768k bytes)
EarthMRIAcquisitionsV_7_1_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage with additional CSV attribute tables, zipped. 981k bytes)
Metadata:
Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI)
An effort undertaken by USGS as part of the Federal strategy to ensure secure and reliable supplies of critical minerals.
Publications and presentations of our partners
Publicly available presentations produced by our partners resulting from Earth MRI data acquisition projects.
USGS data releases associated with Earth MRI projects
Publicly available data released by USGS resulting from Earth MRI data acquisition projects.
Earth MRI data acquisition project services
Web services (OGC WMS, WFS, and GeoJSON) providing information about data acquisition projects funded by Earth MRI.
Earth MRI data acquisition keyword services
Web services providing keyword search of data acquisition projects funded by Earth MRI, returning GeoJSON.