


Open Data- All park data is made available under the guidelines of the Open Government Initiative.For specific questions regarding the Smokies, contact the park GIS Specialist and please provide sufficient time to formulate a response in advance of your need.

GIS themes currently or eventually available include vegetation cover, bedrock geology, disturbance history, fire history, atmospheric deposition models, soils, and topographic indices. The same can be done for other NPS sites. You can access the Smokies data by selecting “Great Smoky Mountains National Park” from the NPS Unit dropdown. For example, data on Fisheries Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) Surveys was recently posted. Downloadable Data - All publicly available GIS datasets are posted online at the NPS IRMA Portal.
