We provide this listing as a handy starting point for a further exploration. The listing is probably biased and subjective, and is certainly incomplete, and we apologize for any omissions. The websites given are the best available as of 2011, and a judicious use of search engines can be used to provide updates and corrections. Likewise, VO-related services can be an effective way to discover available data resources for a particular problem.
An exhaustive listing of surveys is maintained by the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), currently available at /samples/NEDmdb.html.
2MASS = Two Micron All Sky Survey,
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass
ADS = Astrophysics Data System,
http://adswww.harvard.edu
AGAPE = Andromeda Galaxy Amplified Pixels Experiment,
http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/SH/SH2006/agape.html
AGILE = Astro-rivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero,
http://agile.rm.iasf.cnr.it/publ02.html
Akari,
http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/ASTRO-F/Outreach/index_e.html
ALFALFA = Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey,
http://egg.astro.cornell.edu
ALMA = Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array,
http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/alma.html
APASS = The AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey,
http://www.aavso.org/apass
ASAS-1,2,3 = All Sky Automated Survey,
http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/asas/
ASKAP = Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder,
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/projects/askap
ATA = Allen Telescope Array,
http://www.seti.org/ata
CANDELS = Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey,
http://candels.ucolick.org
CARMA = Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy,
http://www.mmarray.org/
CXC = Chandra X-Ray Center,
http://cxc.harvard.edu/
CDFS = Chandra Deep Field South,
http://www.eso.org/~vmainier/cdfs_pub/
CDS = Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg,
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/
COBE = Cosmic Background Explorer,
http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/cobe
CoRoT = COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits,
http://smsc.cnes.fr/COROT/
COSMOS = Cosmic Evolution Survey,
http://cosmos.astro.caltech.edu
CRTS = Catalina Real-Time Transients Survey,
http://crts.caltech.edu
CSS = Catalina Sky Survey,
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/css
DASCH = Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard,
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/DASCH
DENIS = Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky,
http://cdsweb.ustrasbg.fr/online/denis.html
DES = Dark Energy Survey,
http://www.darkenergysurvey.org
DLS = Deep Lens Survey,
http://dls.physics.ucdavis.edu
DSS = Digitized Sky Survey,
http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form
DPOSS = Palomar Digital Sky Survey,
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~george/dposs
EROS-1,2 = Exp'erience pour la Recherche d'Objets Sombres,
http://eros.in2p3.fr/
FGST = Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope,
http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov
FIRST = Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters,
http://sundog.stsci.edu
Gaia,
http://gaia.esa.int
GALEX = Galaxy Evolution Explorer,
http://www.galex.caltech.edu
GAMA = Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey,
http://gama-survey.org/
GLIMPSE = Spitzer Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey
Extraordinaire,
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/sirtf/
GMAN = Global Microlensing Alert Network,
http://darkstar.astro.washington.edu/
GMRT = Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope,
http://gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in/
GOODS = The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey,
http://www.stsci.edu/science/goods
GSC = Guide Star Catalog,
http://gsss.stsci.edu/Catalogs/Catalogs.htm
HDF = Hubble Deep Field,
http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/hdf.html
HEASARC = High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center,
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
HIPASS = HI Parkes All Sky Survey,
http://aus-vo.org/projects/hipass
HST = Hubble Space Telescope,
http://www.stsci.edu/hst
HUDF = Hubble Ultra-Deep Field,
http://www.stsci.edu/hst/udf
IceCube = http://icecube.wisc.edu/,
a neutrino experiment in Antarctica.
IRAS = Infrared Astronomical Satellite,
http://iras.ipac.caltech.edu/IRASdocs/iras.html
IRSA,
http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/
Kepler,
http://kepler.nasa.gov/
LINEAR = Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research,
http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/space/linear/
LOFAR = LOw Frequency Array,
http://www.lofar.org/
LSST = Large Synoptic Survey Telescope,
http://www.lsst.org
MACHO = Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Object,
http://wwwmacho.anu.edu.au/
MAST = Multimission Archive at STScI,
http://archive.stsci.edu/index.html
MAXI = Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image,
http://kibo.jaxa.jp/en/experiment/ef/maxi/
MeerKAT,
http://www.ska.ac.za/meerkat/index.php
MicroFun = Microlensing Follow-Up Network,
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~microfun/
MILAGRO = http://scipp.ucsc.edu/personnel/milagro.html
MOA = Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics,
http://www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/moa/
MOST = Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars,
http://www.astro.ubc.ca/MOST/
NDWFS = The NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey,
http://www.noao.edu/noao/noaodeep
NEAT = Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking team,
http://neat.jpl.nasa.gov
NED = NASA/IPAC Extragalctic Database,
/
NOMAD = Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset
http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astrometry/optical-IR-prod/nomad
NVSS = NRAO VLA Sky Survey,
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/nvss
OGLE-I,II,II,IV = Optical Gravitation Lensing Experiment,
http://ogle.astrouw.edu.pl/
PANDAS = Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey,
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/projects/hia/pandas.html
PanSTARRS = Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System,
http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu
Pi of the Sky,
http://grb.fuw.edu.pl/
PKS = Parkes Radio Sources,
http://archive.eso.org/starcat/astrocat/pks.html
PLANET = Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork,
http://www.planet-legacy.org/
PMN = Parkes-MIT-NRAO survey,
http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/observing/databases/pmn/pmn.html
POSS = Palomar Observatory Sky Survey,
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~wws/poss2.html
PQ = The Palomar-Quest Sky Survey,
http://palquest.org
PTF = Palomar Transient Factory,
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/ptf
RAPTOR = Rapid Telescopes for Optical Response,
http://www.lanl.gov/quarterly/q_fall03/observatories.shtml
RASS = ROSAT All Sky Survey,
http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/rass.html
RoboNet-I,II,
http://www.astro.ljmu.ac.uk/RoboNet/,
http://robonet.lcogt.net/
ROTSE = Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment,
http://www.rotse.net
SASSy = SCUBA-2 All-Sky Survey,
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JCMT/surveys/sassy/
SDSS = Sloan Digital Sky Survey, http://www.sdss.org,
http://www.sdss3.org
SKA = Square Kilometer Array,
http://www.skatelescope.org
SNFactory = The Nearby Supernova Factory,
http://snfactory.lbl.gov/
SpaceWatch,
http://spacewatch.lpl.arizona.edu/
SuperWASP = Super Wide Angle Search for Planets,
http://www.superwasp.org/
SWIRE = Spitzer Wide-area InfraRed Extragalactic survey,
http://swire.ipac.caltech.edu
UKIDSS = UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey,
http://www.ukidss.org
USNO = United States Naval Observatory,
http://www.usno.nasa.mil/USNO
VISTA = Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy,
http://www.vista.ac.uk/
VLA = NRAO Very Large Array,
http://www.vla.nrao.edu
VO = Virtual Observatory,
http://www.ivoa.net
VLT = Very Large Telescope,
http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/vlt.html
VST = VLT Survey Telescope,
http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/surveytelescopes/vst.html
WISE = Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer,
http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu
WMAP = Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe,
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov