USGS GloVis
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USGS GloVis is an online portal provided by the U.S. Geological Survey for browsing, previewing, and downloading satellite imagery and other Earth observation data.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USGS GloVis canonical | 3 |
| USGS Global Visualization Viewer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3918666 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USGS GloVis Context triple: [Landsat satellites, dataDistributedVia, USGS GloVis]
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A.
ICE Data Services
ICE Data Services is a financial market data and analytics provider offering real-time and historical pricing, reference data, and related services to global market participants.
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B.
National Water Information System
The National Water Information System is a comprehensive U.S. database and platform that provides access to nationwide water resources data, including streamflow, groundwater levels, water quality, and water use.
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C.
USGS topographic maps
USGS topographic maps are detailed, large-scale representations of the Earth's surface produced by the U.S. Geological Survey, showing natural and man-made features with contour lines to depict elevation and terrain.
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D.
ONS Open Geography portal
The ONS Open Geography portal is an online platform providing access to official UK geographic data, boundaries, and related statistical geospatial resources published by the Office for National Statistics.
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E.
STAC
STAC is a regional public health institution under SAARC dedicated to coordinating efforts to control and prevent tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS among member countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USGS GloVis Target entity description: USGS GloVis is an online portal provided by the U.S. Geological Survey for browsing, previewing, and downloading satellite imagery and other Earth observation data.
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A.
ICE Data Services
ICE Data Services is a financial market data and analytics provider offering real-time and historical pricing, reference data, and related services to global market participants.
-
B.
National Water Information System
The National Water Information System is a comprehensive U.S. database and platform that provides access to nationwide water resources data, including streamflow, groundwater levels, water quality, and water use.
-
C.
USGS topographic maps
USGS topographic maps are detailed, large-scale representations of the Earth's surface produced by the U.S. Geological Survey, showing natural and man-made features with contour lines to depict elevation and terrain.
-
D.
ONS Open Geography portal
The ONS Open Geography portal is an online platform providing access to official UK geographic data, boundaries, and related statistical geospatial resources published by the Office for National Statistics.
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E.
STAC
STAC is a regional public health institution under SAARC dedicated to coordinating efforts to control and prevent tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS among member countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Earth observation data access tool
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online data portal ⓘ satellite imagery browser ⓘ |
| abbreviation | GloVis ⓘ |
| accessCost | free of charge ⓘ |
| accessMethod | web browser ⓘ |
| accessModel | open access ⓘ |
| applicationDomain |
Earth observation
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disaster response and assessment ⓘ environmental monitoring ⓘ land use and land cover analysis ⓘ natural resource management ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| dataSource |
Earth observation satellites
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Landsat satellites ⓘ
surface form:
Landsat missions
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| dataType |
Earth observation data
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remote sensing data ⓘ satellite imagery ⓘ |
| feature |
display of metadata for each scene
ⓘ
download of selected scenes ⓘ filtering by acquisition date ⓘ filtering by cloud cover ⓘ filtering by path and row for Landsat data ⓘ interactive map-based browsing of scenes ⓘ scene-based search and selection ⓘ thumbnail preview of imagery ⓘ |
| fullName |
USGS GloVis
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
USGS Global Visualization Viewer
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintainer |
United States Geological Survey
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surface form:
USGS EROS Center
|
| operator |
United States Geological Survey
ⓘ
surface form:
USGS
United States Geological Survey ⓘ |
| provider |
United States Geological Survey
ⓘ
surface form:
USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center
|
| purpose |
to allow users to browse, preview, and download remote sensing data
ⓘ
to provide access to satellite imagery and Earth observation data ⓘ |
| registrationProvider |
USGS EarthExplorer
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surface form:
USGS EarthExplorer / USGS registration system
|
| relatedService |
USGS EarthExplorer
ⓘ
USGS EarthExplorer ⓘ
surface form:
USGS LandsatLook Viewer
|
| requiresRegistration | true ⓘ |
| sector | government ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
Earth sciences
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geospatial data ⓘ remote sensing ⓘ |
| targetUser |
educators
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general public ⓘ policy makers ⓘ researchers ⓘ scientists ⓘ |
| userInterface | web-based interface ⓘ |
| website | https://glovis.usgs.gov ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: USGS GloVis Description of subject: USGS GloVis is an online portal provided by the U.S. Geological Survey for browsing, previewing, and downloading satellite imagery and other Earth observation data.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
USGS Global Visualization Viewer