Noel D. Johnson

Noel D. Johnson

I’m a Professor of Economics at George Mason University. I’m also a Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, a faculty member at the Center for the Study of Public Choice, and an Affiliate Member of the CESifo Research Network.

Sources for GIS Data

gis_data

Climate Data

NOAA

Historical NOAA Data

Night lights

NOAA DMSP

VIIRs

Daytime images

Landsat

EOS/Modis

NOAA/AVHRR

Modern Maps:

GADM

Ethnic homelands: Murdock

Ethnic Homelands: Atlas Narodov Mira

GAEZ crop suitability

Historic Maps (and check the library!!!)

Euratlas

Geocoded data:

Asian development projects: AidData

Conflict: UCDP

Conflict: ACLED

Highly disaggregated on Indian viallages :SHRUG

Miscellaneous Vector Data

rnaturalearth (countries, rivers, roads, etc…)

U.S. Census Data: tidycensus

U.S. Census Data: tigris

Open Street Maps: osmdata

Eurostat Data and Maps

Free GIS Data

The Humanitarian Data Exchange

Google Data Search