GIS Links by Ron Briggs--UTDallas

The University of Texas at Dallas

Program in Geospatial Information Sciences

GIS and Remote Sensing Resources on the Internet

This general overview of GIS resources on the Internet is intended to be an illustrative list of major sites, used in conjunction with my courses and as a reference for students, rather than a comprehensive coverage. See some of the referenced sites for more comprehensive guides. Ron Briggs.

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Top Spots for GIS Data & Info
What's Happening in GIS
GIS Education
Free GIS Software
GIS Careers and Jobs
GIS Internet Resource Guides
GIS University Centers
GIS Software Vendors
GIS Professional Associations
GIS Journals and Proceedings
GIS Data Sources: government
GIS Data Sources: commercial
Satellite Imagery and Programs
GPS Data and Info
Federal Agency Guides
Technical Information

Top Spots for GIS Data & Info.

D/FW

http://gis.dfwinfo.com North Central Texas Council of Governments

Texas

http://www.tnris.state.tx.us TNRIS-Texas Natural Resources Information System
http://www.glo.texas.gov/land/land-management/gis/ Texas General Land Office
http://txsdc.utsa.edu/ Texas State Data Center (census)
http://tea.texas.gov Texas Education Agency-school and student data via "Reports & Data" tab
http://www.scaug.org South Central Arc Users Group

National

http://catalog.data.gov/dataset Federal data catalog (spatial and non-spatial)
http://www.geoplatform.gov/ Federal geospatial resources
http://www.nhgis.org/ National Historical Geographic Information System

World

http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/ Excellent list of free GIS data sites
http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.htmlon-line GIS data and mapping from ESRI
https://hiu.state.gov/data/data.aspx https://hiu.state.gov/data/data.aspx US Dept. of State
http://www.who.int/gho/en/ UN World Health Organization
http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/ UN Environmental Program

Geography in the Information Age

http://www.thesnugg.com/geography-resources-for-mapping.aspx General information and guides
http://www.nationalatlas.gov Digital Atlas of the US
http://nationalmap.usgs.gov/ The National Map from USGS
http://www.atlas.gc.ca Digital Atlas of Canada
http://www.ersys.com/ Info on 2,600 US cities

What's Happening in GIS--"trade rags" and others

http://www.giwis.org/ Geospatial Industry Workforce Information System
http://www.gisuser.com GIS User site
http://www.giscafe.com GIS business news from SUN
http://www.cartotalk.com/ Cartography discussion group
http://www.geoplace.com GeoWorld and Business Geographics magazine site
http://www.geospatial-online.com/ GeoSpatial Solutions magazine site
http://www.eomonline.com Earth Observation & Mapping (EOM) magazine site
http://www.directionsmag.com Directions Online Mapping/GIS Magazine
http://gislounge.com Articles and links related to GIS
http://www.geocomm.com GIS Community site
http://geography.miningco.com Web Mining Company's geography site
http://www.gis-t.org GIS in transportation

GIS Education

http://www.ucgis.org/priorities/education/modelcurriculaproject.asp GI Science Body of Knowledge
http://www.spatialanalysisonline.com/ Guide to Geospatial Analysis
http://www.csiss.org Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
http://www.geongrid.org/ Geosciences Network
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu:80/education/curricula/giscc Core Curriculum in GI Science (old but still useful)
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/contents.html Some excellent GIS materials
http://training.esri.com/gateway/index.cfm ESRI training site
http://training.esri.com/campus/library/index.cfm ESRI GIS Bibliographic List, begun by Duane Marble
http://www.esri.com/library/index.html Free books and papers from ESRI)
http://www.agi.org.uk/POOLED/articles/bf_trainart/view.asp?Q=bf_trainart_156551 GIS Dictionary--English English!

GIS Jobs and Careers

Career Info

http://www.gisci.org GIS Certification Institute
http://www.geospatialcareers.net/ Geospatial Careers (by U of New Hampshire)
http://www.giwis.org/ Geospatial Industry Workforce Information System (Colorado)

DFW GIS Job Sites

http://gis.nctcog.org/jobs.asp DFW GIS jobs from NCTCOG
http://gita.org/chapters/texas_northcentral/nctexas.asp#execomm Local GIS jobs from GITA
http://naep.org/associations/5483/files/NTAEP_employment.htm DFW Environmental Jobs (some GIS)

National GIS Job Sites

http://www.acsm.net/cagis/CaGISCareerWeb Careers in GIS and Cartography
http://www.gjc.org The GIS Jobs Clearinghouse
http://www.geojobsource.com The Geo Job Source
http://usa.gogeomatics.net GoGeomatics USA site (also Canada)
http://www.geographyjobs.com/ Geography jobs
http://www.geojobs.org/ Geojobs
http://www.geosearch.com Geosearch
http://www.ggrweb.com GeoWeb Interactive
http://www.geospatial.jobs.com/ Geospatial Jobs
http://www.gisjobs.com GISjobs.com
http://giscareers.com GIS Careers site
http://www.urisa.org/Career_center/career.htm Urban & Regional IS Association job site

GIS Internet Resource Guides

http://www.gis.com GIS information from ESRI
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/virtdept/resources/contents.htm One of the best from U of Colorado
http://libinfo.uark.edu/GIS/us.asp Good Listing of mostly-free US data sources by State
http://www.geoconnections.org Guide to Canadian Sites
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/gishome.html University of Edinburgh-good worldwide list

Note: Many of the university centers listed below also have lists of useful sites.

Major University GIS Centers

National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
- http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/ncgia.html University of California at Santa Barbara
- http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/ncgia/ State University of New York at Buffalo
- http://www.ncgia.maine.edu/ University of Maine at Orono
http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu//Dept. of Geography, Ohio State University
http://www.cas.sc.edu/geog/ Dept. of Geography, University of South Carolina
http://gis.usc.edu/ Dept. of Geography, University of Southern California
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/giswww.html University of Edinburgh (UK)
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/gisc/ Birbeck College, London (UK)
http://www.kingston.ac.uk/gis/ The Kingston Center for GIS (UK)

Other University GIS Centers

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/geography/ Dept. of Geography, UT Austin
http://deathstar.rutgers.edu/ Rutgers Univ, Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis
http://www.cast.uark.edu Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, U. of Arkansas
http://edac.unm.edu Earth Data Analysis Center, U. of New Mexico

Free GIS Software

http://opensourcegis.org/ Assorted open source GIS software.
http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer ArcExplorer--GIS Data Viewer
http://www.bluemarblegeo.com/appexpl.htm Geographic Explorer--GIS Data Format Translator
http://www.intergraph.com/gviewer/default.asp Intergraph's GeoMedia Viewer
http://www.pcigeomatics.com/freeware/freeware.html Viewer from PCI
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=6703438&siteID=123112 Viewer for AutoCAD DWG/DXF files
http://www.microimages.com/tntlite TNTlite--free version of TNTmips GIS package
http://www.tatukgis.com/products/viewer/viewer.aspx Very capable raster oriented
http://vterrain.org 3-D Terrain Modelling/Virtual Reality software
http://www10.giscafe.com/link/display_categories.php Variety of GIS related software
https://shop.tatukgis.com/downloads/DownloadList.aspx Datum/projection converter and viewer

Major GIS Software Vendors

GIS Packages

http://www.bentley.com Bentley Microstation Geographics
http://www.cadcorp.com CadCorp SIS (Spatial Information System) from UK
http://www.caris.com/ CARIS system from Canada
http://www.esri.com/ ESRI - Arc/Info, ArcView, Atlas/GIS
http://www.erdas.com/ ERDAS, Inc. -- Imagine (purchased by Leica)
http://www.ermapper.com/ ER Mapper (purchased by Leica in 2007)
http://www.rsinc.com ENVI Remote Sensing package (purchased by Kodak in 2000)
http://www.genasys.com/ Genasys II, Inc.
http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS--originally from US Army
http://www.intergraph.com/ Intergraph Corp.
http://www.idrisi.clarku.edu/ IDRISI package from Clark University
http://www.itc.nl/ilwis ILWIS package from the Netherlands
http://www.mapinfo.com/ MapInfo, Inc
http://www.caliper.com/ Maptitude and TransCAD from Caliper Corporation
http://www.maptitude.co.uk/ Maptitude and TransCAD for UK (with extensive data)
http://www.manifold.net Manifold--GIS for $95
http://www.pci.on.ca/ PCI Geomatics Group Inc. (Canada)
http://www.softree.com Surveying and Mapping package
http://www.gepower.com/prod_serv/products/gis_software/en/index.htm Smallworld Systems Inc. (purchased by GE in 2000)
http://www.microimages.com TNTmips GIS package--TNTlite is popular free version
http://www.progis.co.at WINGIS from Austria

Specialized Packages

http://www.avismap.com/ GIS Software Object package
http://www.bluemarblegeo.com Bluemarble geographic utility software
http://www.geomicro.com/ Geomicro--GIS for telecom
http://featureanalyst.com/ feature extraction from raster images
http://www.lizardtech.com/ Data compression: MrSid, DjVu
http://www.avenza.com MAPublisher Software for "final copy" (lite version for free)
http://www.tadpoletechnology.com/gsd/html/ Field mapping applications
http://www.tatukgis.com/ GIS software objects for application development
http://www.goldensoftware.com Surfer Contouring package from Golden Software
http://www.safe.com GIS Data Translator: FME from Safe Software Inc.
http://www.terraseer.com TerraSeer Spatial Statistical Software
http://www.coresw.com TerraSoar image cataloging software
http://www.esea.com/ MapMerger conflation software

Note: For more comprehensive lists, see commercial directories such as geoplace.com's GeoDirectory

Professional Associations

http://www.ucgis.org University Consortium for Geographic Information Science: universities
http://www.gisci.org/ GIS Certification Institute
http://www.aag.org Association of American Geographers
- http://www.cla.sc.edu/gis/aaggis/ AAG GIS Specialty Group Newsletter
http://www.planning.org American Planning Association
http://www.agu.org American Geophysical Union
http://www.acsm.net/ American Congress on Surveying and Mapping: surveyors
http://www.tsps.org/ Texas Society of Professional Surveyors
http://www.asprs.org/ Amercian Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
http://www.opengis.org Open GIS Consortium
http://www.urisa.org Urban and Regional Information Systems Association: public sector users
http://www.gita.org/ Geospatial Information and Technology Association (formerly AM/FM International): private sector users
- http://gita.org/chapters/texas_northcentral/nctexas.asp#execomm North Texas chapter
http://www.mapps.org/ Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors (MAPPS): private sector data suppliers
http://www.usgif.org/ US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation: private sector vendors group
http://www.agi.org.uk Association for Geographic Information: UK private/public sector group

Journals and Proceedings (*UTD has subscription)

GIS Journals and Proceedings

Remote Sensing Journals and Proceedings

General Geography Journals containing GIS papers

GeoJournal *
Applied Geography *

GIS Data Sources: government and non-profit

General

http://www.geodata.gov Federal one-stop shop for spatial data (US)
www.fedstats.gov Federal Statistical (attribute) Data Sources (US)

US Geological Survey

http://www.usgs.gov/ USGS Home Page

http://www.usgs.gov/ngpo/ National Geospatial Programs Office

www.fgdc.gov Federal Geographic Data Committee (spatial data policy coordination)

http://geography.usgs.gov/ USGS Geography (National Mapping) Division

http://gisdata.usgs.gov/ Access to Spatial Data from USGS

http://nationalmap.usgs.gov/ The National Map (digital atlas)

http://edc.usgs.gov/geodata/ Overview of USGS spatial data files

http://seamless.usgs.gov/ USGS US Data download by region via ArcIMS

http://glovis.usgs.gov/ USGS Imagery (e.g.Landsat) download

http://geode.usgs.gov/ USGS "Google Earth clone" for worldwide data viewing/access

http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ USGS Global Land Information System (GLIS)--search & order data

http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/ Global Land Cover Facility (Landsat plus other)
http://eros.usgs.gov USGS: Eros Data Center--sites for specific data sets
- Satellite Imagery
  - http://landsat.usgs.gov/ Landsat program information
  - http://glovis.usgs.gov/ LandSAT and other satellite imagery download
- Elevation data
  - http://ned.usgs.gov/ National Elevation Dataset (NED)
  - http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/gtopo30/gtopo30.html GTOPO30: Worldwide equivalent of NED
  - http://lpdaac.usgs.gov/aster/dem_map.asp Worldwide DEM from ASTER satellite
  - http://srtm.usgs.gov/ Worldwide DEM from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
    - access at http://seamless.usgs.gov/
    - or http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/srtm/ (by tiles)
  - http://lidar.cr.usgs.gov/ LIDAR elevation data info & sources
- http://landcover.usgs.gov/ USGS Land Cover Characterization Program
- http://nhd.usgs.gov/ National Hydrography Dataset
- http://water.usgs.gov/nwis/ National Water Information System

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/ National Geodetic Survey
http://www.nndc.noaa.gov/ National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Data Centers
- http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/ NOAA-National Environmental, Satellite,Data and Information Service
- http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ NOAA-National Geophysical Data Center
- http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ NOAA-National Oceanographic Data Center
- http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ NOAA-National Climatic Data Center

US Bureau of the Census

http://www.census.gov US Bureau of the Census
- http://factfinder.census.gov Census Data Access (2000 and 1990 data download at Data Sets link)
- http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/ Census Tiger Files Home Page
- http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob Downloadable Boundary Files from Census Bureau

Federal Mission Agencies

NASA
- http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sircxsar SIR-C/X-SAR Radar Imaging Program
- http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission
- http://www.earth.nasa.gov NASA's "Mission Earth" education site
http://www.nga.mil National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (formerly National Imagery and Mapping Agency, formerly Defense Mapping Agency)
http://www.bts.gov/ US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- http://transtats.bts.gov US Transportation data
- http://www.apta.com/research/stats/ Public Transit data (from APTA)
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/ Environmental Data Warehouse
http://www.blm.gov/gis/ Bureau of Land Management Geospatial Homepage
http://www.fws.gov/ US Fish and Wildlife (wetlands data)
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/maps.html USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service
- http://soils.usda.gov/ Soil Surveys
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/ US Coast Guard GPS and Navigation site

Sites with Census Data

http://www.nhgis.org/Historical census spatial and attribute data
http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/data_archive.shtml US Census Data from Missouri State Data Center
- http://mcdc2.missouri.edu/applications/uexplore.shtml#census80 1980 small area Census data (very rare!)
- http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/plue/geocorr/htmls/maggot.html On-line geographic FIPS codes
http://www.ciesin.org/ Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
- http://sedac.ciesin.org/ SocioEconomic Data and Applications Center

Digital Chart of the World (the first digital world map)

http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/ (now historical interest only)

Canadian GIS data

http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca GIS data
http://gdr.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php Geoscience data
http://ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php Canada Centre for Remote Sensing

Texas/DFW specific

http://www.tnris.state.tx.us TNRIS-Texas Natural Resources Information System
http://www.glo.state.tx.us/maps.html Texas General Land Office
http://txsdc.utsa.edu Texas State Data Center (attribute data)
http://gis.dfwinfo.com D/FW area: North Central Texas Council of Governments

GIS Data Sources: commercial

Spatial Data

http://www.gisdatadepot.com Commercial vendor, but includes much free, downloadable data.
http://www.esri.com/data ESRI data--not much free data now!
- http://www.arcgis.com/home/ On line maps from ESRI
http://www.directionsmag.com/files/index.php/browse/13:34 Free data from Directions Magazine
http://www.collinssoftware.com/freegis_by_region.htm Eclectic set of World/US free data
http://www.teleatlas.com/Teleatlas--street data worldwide (purchased by TomTom in 2007)
http://www.gfk-geomarketing.com/ European and other world data
http://www.topozone.com/ USGS topo maps and others
http://www.maptech.com/ The major digital navigation chart provider
http://www.navtech.com/ vehicle navigation data (purchased by Nokia in 2007)
http://www.cartographic.com Worldwide data derived from multiple sources
http://www.gospatial.com World-wide basemap database
http://www.adci.com/ American Digital Cartography--digital data worldwide
http://www.earthinfo.com/ Environmental Data (climate,water, etc.)
http://www.hydrosphere.com/ Environmental Data (climate,water, etc.)
http://www.telvent.com/en/business_areas/environment/ Weather data

Note: See below for Satellite Imagery and GPS sources

Attribute Data

http://www.geolytics.com/ The US Census on one CD-plus updates
http://www.claritas.com/ Claritas Inc.--major US marketing data supplier

http://www.esribis.com/ ESRI Business Information Solutions (formerly CACI Marketing Systems)
http://www.popstats.com/ Block group level pop. estimates updated quarterly
http://www.economy.com Economic data
http://www.infousa.com/ InfoUSA--business lists
http://www.equifax.com/ Credit and other data services

Satellite Imagery Sources and Programs

Commercial Satellite owners

http://www.geoeye.com Formed when Orbimage (Orbview satellites) acquired Space Imaging (Ikonos satellite)
http://www.digitalglobe.com Earthwatch Satellites (Earlybird, Quickbird)
http://www.spot.com French Satellite

Commercial Imagery and Services Suppliers

http://www.terraserver.com Supposedly, one of the largest on-line databases, period.
http://www.globexplorer.com/ On-line supplier of earth imagery
http://gs.mdacorporation.com/ MDA-Macdonald, Dettwiler & Associates
- http://www.mdafederal.com MDA US Govt. Services (previously EarthSat)
http://www.satimagingcorp.com Satellite Imaging Corporation in Houston
http://www.infotech-enterprises.com/UTG.asp Formerly, Vargis Inc, now part of InfoTech

US Government Satellite Programs

http://landsat.usgs.gov/ Landsat program information
- http://glovis.usgs.gov/ LandSAT and other satellite imagery download
- http://www.directionsmag.com/files/index.php/view/617 Free LandSAT access
http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/ Global Land Cover Facility (Landsat plus other)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sircxsar NASA SIR-C/X-SAR Radar Imaging Program
http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/ NOAA NESDIS-National Environmental, Satellite, Data and Information Service
http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html Overview of worldwide satellites for all purposes

Other Country's Programs

http://ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/radar/spaceborne/radarsat1/index_e.php Canada's RADARSAT
http://www.isro.org/programmes.htm India's Systems (IRS, INSAT)
http://www.esrin.esa.it/ European Space Agency

GPS Data, Vendors and Information

http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gps_f.html Excellent Discussion of GPS
http://www.gpsworld.com Trade magazine for GPS
http://www.gpsfaq.com/ One of many GPS-related information sites
http://www.navtechgps.com Catalog & Info for GPS Supplies
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov US Coast Guard navigation site (e.g. DGPS Beacon Sites)
http://www.dot.state.tx.us/services/information_systems/global_positioning_system.htm TX DOT DGPS Post Processsing Data (click ftp information link)
http://www.garmin.com Garmin--Recreational GPS Vendor
http://www.magellangps.com Magellan--recreational & commercial GPS Vendor (owned by Thales)
http://www.leica-geosystems.com/usa Leica-- commercial GPS vendor
http://www.trimble.com Trimble--commercial GPS vendor

General Guides to Federal On-line Info (not GIS specific)

http://www.firstgov.gov Portal to gov. sites
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html Guide to Federal WWW sites from LSU library
http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp .html Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page
http://www.fedworld.gov/ NTIS/FedWorld Home Page
http://www.osti.gov/ Federal Research Reports from Dept. of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Informatione

Data Standards

http://www.fgdc.gov/ Federal Geographic Data Committee cordinates spatial data for the US Federal government
http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/ Status and copies of US federal standards for geodata

Program in Geospatial Information Sciences
University of Texas at Dallas
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