UP519 : Advanced Applications of GIS

Related Links

GIS Links...

• Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
• Introduction to GRASS (A Raster-Based GIS Tool)
• Introduction to ARC/INFO (A Vector-Based GIS Tool)
• Valuable GIS Information From USGS
• Global Access to Geographic Data via the WWW
• MapInfo Co.

• SGIS: Click on title image to open in new browser
• Previous Projects: Previous Students' Projects on UP419

• http://www.fgdc.gov/
• http://nsdi.usgs.gov/
• http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov/
• http://www.fgdc.gov/framework/overview.html

• http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/nsdihome/ISGSindex.html
• http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/igis/igismain.html
• http://www.dot.state.il.us/cadd.html
• http://www.wes.army.mil/EL/flood/fl93home.html
• http://www.basic.org/

Topologically Intergrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing - TIGER Files (US Bureau of the Census)
Origin: GBF/DIME (GeoBase File/Dual Independent Mapping and Encoding) and DLG (Digital Line Graph); scale 1:100,000; low accuracy
Contents: street segments (centerlines) with address ranges, political and statistical boundaries, zip codes

• http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/
• ftp://ftp.census.gov/pub/tiger/boundary/
• http://www.wessex.com/

Extracted from 1:100,000 and 1:24,000 map sheets
Includes: 1:2,000,000 transportation, hydrology, political boundaries; 1:100,000 transportation, hydrology, public land survey system, political boundaries

• http://edc.usgs.gov/products/map/dlg.html

Generated from: existing contour maps (scanning), by photgrammetic analysis of stereo aerial photos, or stereo satellite data
Available in the following scales: 1 degree, 30 minutes, 15 minutes, 7.5 minutes

• http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/products/elevation.html

• http://edc.usgs.gov/products/aerial/doq.html
• http://mapping.usgs.gov/standards/index.html
• http://ortho.mit.edu/

• http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/drg/

Digital Satellite Imagery

• http://edc.usgs.gov/products/satellite.html
• http://www.imagenet.com/content_guide/index.html
• http://www.gislinx.com/
• http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ddcarto (Census data in ArcInfo, MapInfo and Atlas GIS format)
• http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/hunt/index.html (US Geospatial Data and Attributes)
• http://www.epa.gov/docs/grd/forest_inventory/ (Forest Land Distribution Data from EPA)
• http://www.lib.virginia.edu/socsci/collections.html (University of Virginia Social Science Data Center)
• http://www.labins.org/ (Land Boundary Information System)
• http://nsdi.usgs.gov/ (US government data)
• http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/webglis (USGS Global Land Information System)

• http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/webglis (USGS Global Land Information System)
• http://ilm425.nlh.no/gis/dcw/dcw.html (Digital Chart of the World and Data Quality Project)
• http://ilm425.nlh.no/gis/dcw/dcw.html (UNEP/GRID - CGIAR Cooperation - Datasets)
• http://res.agr.ca/CANSIS/_overview.html (Canadian Soil Information System)
• http://www.grida.no/prog/polar/aedea/ (Arctic Environmental Database for Europe and Asia)
• http://ssda.anu.edu.au/ssda/about-ssda-holdings.html (Social Science Data Archives - Australia)
• http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/cityintl.html#data (International Data and Statistics Sources)

• http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/giswww.html
• http://www.gislinx.com/
• http://www.hdm.com/

ArcIMS - Internet Map Server

• http://www.geocortex.net/mu_gallery.html