Courses in GIS and Remote Sensing

• Leicester University MSc in GIS
• University College London - MSc in Photogrammetry with Remote Sensing,GIS, etc.
• University of Cambridge MPhil in GIS and Remote Sensing
• University of Dundee MSc/DipSci in Remote Sensing, Image Processing and Applications
• University of Edinburgh MSc in GIS
• University of Nottingham MSc/Diploma in GIS

Datasets

• Arcdata online - GIS data from ESRI
• California 1:24,000 DEMs - California State University, Northridge
• ESRI - ArcData Online -Internet Mapping and Data site
• ETOPO5 and Terrainbase 5 Global terrain data from NOAA
• GIS data depot
  - data for countries of the world, also some technical detail Global relief data and images - NOAA's catalogue
• Go Spatial Ltd - datasets (DEM, maps, satellite imagery) + some free datasets and software
• GTOPO30 - Global Topographic Data -USGS
• Green Lakes Valley GIS Database
• HYDRO1K - derived from GTOPO30 - includes additional hydrological information (USGS + UNEP GRID)
• Manifold - Maps and Demographic Data
• Mapserver from Maptech, Inc. Online US topographics maps (free access)
• Multimap - maps (Bartholemews) & air photos of UK
• NGDF - National Geospatial Data Framework - metadata for UK spatial data
• Terraserver (Microsoft)
• Topozone - digital maps of the USA (scales from 1:100,000 to 1:24,000)
• USGS Geographic Data
• Various sample DEMs (Mt St Helens before and after, Gettysburg, Irish Canyon, Colorado) (MicroDEM page - scroll down)
• World Resources Institute (Library page - links to lots of GIS data)

Digital Mapping, Terrain Modelling, Sources of Digital Maps

· Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research, Univ. of Iowa - hundreds of links to maps, gazeteers and tutorial stuff

· Grids & Datums for countries of the world

· Digital Chart of the World (DCW) at Penn State

· GIS data depot - data for countries of the world, also some technical detail

· Drawmap - free UNIX software for mapping/visualisation for USGS format maps and DEM.

· Map projections - hundreds of them

· Map projections - 300+ downloadable (printable) PDF plus referecnes - Paul B Anderson, Illinois State University

· MAPTITUDE.co.uk - intelligent mapping for Gt Britain

· National Geologic Maps Database (USA)

· Odden's Bookmarks - look here for everything and anything about maps

· Projections and Projected Coordinate System Formulas

· Public domain mapping and graphics resources CDROM from Fred Popeschil

· Shale Software Xatellite mapping - visualise ESRI shapefiles.

· Free download here.

· The Casual Cartographer - Mentor Software newsletter - useful stuff, including free software

GIS Links

• Geocomm - various resources and links
• GEOWEB: GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing
• GIS links from the JRC GIS/GI project
• List of GIS WWW servers
• Nice set of links for cartographers - including links to data sources, maps etc.
• The Power of Geography

GPS and Geodesy

• Coordinate systems: details of datum’s from European Petroleum Group
• Defense Mapping Agency (USA): Datum’s, ellipsoids, grids, and grid reference systems.
• Geodesy for the Layman - online text, Defense Mapping Agency
• GISLinx (see GIS Links above)
• NGIA publications - geodesy, coordinate systems, WGS84 etc
• NGIA satellite geodesy home page - includes Precise Ephemeris (PE) data
• NGS free geodetic software
• NGS orbits for GPS
• UTM zones of the world - online map

Jobs

• Geosearch, Inc. - look here for GIS jobs, mainly US
• GISdevelopment.net - look for link to careers
• GISjobs.com - North American, mainly; includes listings of universities with GIS interests
• Another jobs site (American)

Societies and Interest Groups

• AAG GIS Specialty Group
• American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - ASPRS
• International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - ISPRS
• The Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society - RSPSoc

Software

• Read a Geospace review of raster GIS packages - Arcview, Grass, Spans, Ilwis, MFWorks, Vertical Mapper
• ARCREADER – view,explore and print PMFs (Published Map Files) - free
• CGAL: Computational geometry algorithms library (free for academics) software in C for Unix & Windows
• Convert utility (Josh Madison) - does just that, for distance units, volume, temperature, area & lots more & it's free
• DEM analysis programs (Fortran) from USGS
• Draftsman Plus raster to vector software from Arbor Image Corp
• Flow direction calculations from DEM - Arc Info and Idrisi
• GRASS home page
• List of GIS software providers and consultants
• Mapinfo
• Natural Resources Database (NRDB) - free GIS software application (developing/distributing environmental databases)
• R2V - Windows 95/NT raster to vector digitizing software from Able Systems(demo version from here)
• STEMGis - temporal GIS from Discovery Software
• Terrain visualization software survey
• Transverse Mercator (UTM) calculator (lat/long to UTM in metres) - Excel macros downloadable
• University of Lisbon GIS pages - useful software source
• Xerox Park Map Viewer - allows selection of World/USA map from HTML

Tutorial Materials/Bibliographies/Online Papers/Newsletters

• Agricultural research: GIS awareness package from UNEP GRID
• ARCVIEW tutorial
• Environmental GIS guide for the neophyte
• Environmental Modelling and GIS Conference Proceedings, 1996
• GIS tutorials on a range of subjects from Spatialnews
• Geographic Information Systems and Problem Solving Environment by Jinsoo Park (ACM article, 2001)
• GIS resources (Nicholas Chrisman)
• GIS Data Depot: articles, news and data sets
• GIS development.net: articles, reference section, jobs etc. + ARC/INFO and Idrisi tutorials
• GIS lectures - 10 sets of lecture notes from the School of Forestry, University of Montana
• Idrisi tutorial (Eric J. Lorup)
• Idrisi tuorial, including spatial analysis
• Introduction to GIS from the USGS
• IDRISI Project Home Page
• Japanese GIS/Mapping Science Resources Guide
• Searchable GIS bibliographic database
• Spatial News (GIS newsletter)
• Terrain Tools (Softree Inc): freeware mapping
• UNEP/GRID: Use of GIS in Agricultural Research

Universities, Institutes etc

• Scientific Visualisation Sites - from NASA Ames Research Centre
• National Center for Geographical Information & Analysis (NCGIA)
• Visualisation of Remote Sensing Data, from GSFC

Vendors/Software Systems

• ESRI (Arc-Info) Home Page
• GRASS Home Page
• Intergraph Corporation, USA
• Introduction to Arc-Info
• Keigan Systems Inc - spatial analysis, surface analysis, MFWorks
• Manifold Systems - GIS for Windows
• Maponics - mapping services for direct marketing
• PCRaster - integrating GIS, environmental modelling & geostatistics
• MAPTITUDE.co.uk - intelligent mapping for Gt Britain; mapping software
• Smallworld GIS
• Streetsmart - TIGER 2002 mapping for Arcview/Mapinfo
• MapInfo Inc.