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The following are useful websites recommended by GIS professionals Rosie Yacoub (California Department of Food & Agriculture) and Maggi Kelly (U.C., Berkeley): http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/county/pumpdvlp/arcvwitm/ http://www.fs.fed.us/database/gps/ http://www.joe.mehaffey.com/ http://www.tapr.org/~kh2z/Waypoint/ http://www.directionsmag.com/ http://www.calflora.org/ http://www.nawma.org/documents/Mapping%20Standards/ http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/ipc/noxweedinfo/noxwdinfo_hp.htm
CDFA’s “encycloweedia.” http://romberg.sfsu.edu/~egeria/Weed_Conference/ http://gis.esri.com/arcscripts/index.cfm http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/contents.html http://personal.cmich.edu/~franc1m/homepage.htm http://www.sonoma.edu/GIC/Geog387/GIS-Links.html http://www.gisportal.com/ http://www.greeninfo.org/ http://www.spatialnews.com/ The following list was generated for the “WMA Resource Book, 2000” by Chris Crown of CSU Chico and Butte. The list is meant to get you started - there are literally thousands of sites out there. Most of these include great links to other great sites with links to more great sites and so it goes. GIS
SOFTWARE VENDORS ESRI, CANADA ESRI's Canada site – Canadian links/educ. materials http://www.esri.ca Bentley Systems Geoengineering software products/Microstation http://www.bentley.com Autodesk Check out Autodesk World http://www.autodesk.com/solution/gis/index.htm Intergraph Check out software, then category GIS http://www.intergraph.com Caliper Maptitude Desktop GIS software http://www.caliper.com MapInfo Find out more about this desktop GIS http://www.mapinfo.com IDRISI A raster-based GIS f/ School of Geography,Clark U. http://www.clarklabs.org Microsoft MapPoint for Office Integrates with office –very basic mapping &analysis http://www.microsoft.com/office/mappoint FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT FGDC Site for geospatial data, metadata info and tutorials http://fgdc.er.usgs.gov Census Bureau U.S. Census Data *Check ESRI f/free census dwnld. http://www.census.gov U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wetlands information/data http://www.nwi.fws.gov Bureau of Land Management GEOSPATIAL Home Page http://www.blm.gov/gis Sandia National Laboratory GIS applications, tips, tutorials http://www.sandia.gov/GIS/gis.html GIS at BC Env., Lands, and Parks A wonderful list of links, incl. Tutorials, data http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/gis STATE
GOVERNMENT/LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Mostly California - more under data & applications) Info Center for the Environment (ICE) U.C. Davis - watershed and env. related information http://ice.ucdavis.edu CERES California Environmental Info. Catalog/metadata http://ceres.ca.gov California Dept of Forestry CDF's Fire & Resource Assess. Prog. – data , maps http://frap.cdf.ca.gov California Dept. Of Water Res. Division of flood management data exchange center http://cdec.water.ca.gov Oregon State Service Center for GIS Info and links to Oregon GIS activities & data http://www.sscgis.state.or.us Texas Natural Resources Info Cent. Data, resources http://www.tnris.state.tx.us Arizona Geographic Info.Council Pub. Info. site – good Arizona & metadata links http://www.state.az.us/gis3/agic/agichome.html COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES Ohio State U. Center for Mapping Great site for users of mapping technologies http://www.cfm.ohio-state.edu CALMIT - Nebraska Center for Advanced Land Mngmnt – Midwest Links http://ulysses.unl.edu/calmit/research.html University of Texas, Austin Geographers' Craft - GREAT site for geog/GIS http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft U. Of Edinburgh, U.K General GIS information and linkes/GIS dictionary http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/gishome.html Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo School of Landscape Architechure GIS Tech Lab http://suntzu.larc.calpoly.edu/gislab California State University, Chico CSU, Chico Geographical Information Center http://www.gic.csuchico.edu Pennsylvana State University Online 4-course GIS Certificate Program http://www.gis.psu.edu Virtual Geography Department GIS/RS and Cartography courses on-line http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/virtdept/contents.html University of Arizona Creating a campus wide GIS http://w3.arizona.edu/~cfp/maps_data/campus_gis.shtml TRAINING/EDUCATION
MATERIALS CCITT Project Curric. Materials: GIS, Remote Sensing, Image Pr. http://earth.fhda.edu/index.html NCGIA (GIS Core Curric. Link) National Center for Geographic Info & Analysis http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu Core Curric. for Tech. Programs GIS Curriculum materials for Instructors http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/cctp U. Maine (has been off-line lately) GIS Literature Database - search for articles/papers http://www.odyssey.maine.edu/gisweb UCGIS Univ. Consortium Geographic Information Science http://www.ucgis.org ESRI Education Pgs Clic Higher Education or K-12 link http://www.esri.com/industries/index.html GIS
PUBLICATIONS ONLINE/DISCUSSION GROUPS Geoplace.com A lot here - site for GIS World Magazine, GeoNews http://www.geoplace.com Sacramento Area ArcView UserGrp Every other month meetings w/presentations Free http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~arcview/ ESRI WEB site user group info. ESRI user group info http://www.esri.com/usersupport/usergroups/usergroups.html URISA – nice resource f/GIS users Urban and Regional Information Systems Assoc. http://www.urisa.org BAAMA Bay Area Automated Mapping Assoc. http://www.baama.org Directions Magazine online A must see, check out tools link http://www.directionsmag.com Geography & GIS Mailing Lists List of various groups you can subscribe to http://www.gisnet.com/notebook/index.html ESPECIALLY
GOOD LINK LISTS GIS Portal: Great GIS NetSites If you could only go to one site for GIS links… http://www.gisportal.com GISLinx Many categories of GIS LINKS (jobs, data, orgs…) http://www.gislinx.com GIS
TUTORIALS/UTILITIES Sandia National Laboratories IAC - tutorial especially for the systems analyst http://www.sandia.gov/GIS/tutrs/iactut2.html Sweden GIS What a great site! - Demos/Avenue scripts/links http://www.swegis.com ARC/INFO Tutorial Do a lesson or download the ARC/INFO coverages http://boris.qub.ac.uk/shane/arc/ARChome.html University of Edinburgh GIS Dictionary http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/agidict/welcome.html British Columbia Ministry of Env. Map projections (check out Geographers' Craft too) http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/gis/projectiontutorial.html Electronic Textbook: Statsoft Training in understanding & application of statistics http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html Sandia National Laboratories. ArcView/Avenue: Coding Styles and Utility Scripts http://www.sandia.gov/GIS/tech/avcsus.htm GIS Guide to Good Practice emphasis upon archaeological data but widely applic http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/gis ESRI Virtual Campus Software & Applications courses , reasonably priced http://campus.esri.com/campus/home/home.cfm
APPLICATIONS
(more in other sections too) FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency http://www.fema.gov/maps USGS Natural Disast. Reduct./Plan for Nation Res. Priorit. http://www.usgs.gov/sndr/index.html USGS Water related sites and data http://water.usgs.gov/public/GIS NOAA National Geophysical Data Center http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov California Environmental Information Catalog Metadata creation application by CERES, ties your metadata into the NSDI Clearinghouse and CaSIL http://ceres.ca.gov/catalog/metadata.html Sandia National Laboratories. Projects incl. Transportation Data Analysis &Visual. http://www.sandia.gov/ttp/projects/gis.html Ames Research Laboratory NASA Ames Research - GIS and Disease http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/esdstaff/health/bydisease.html Camp Pendleton Harvard School of Design http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/brc/brc.html California Dept. Of Water Res. Division of flood management data exchange center http://www.ceres.ca.gov/flood Boulder County Colorado land use GIS, Wildfires and Landuse Planning, Internet GIS http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~aggrass/esri95/to250/p2101.html Access USGS San Francisco Bay Info and digital DATA for the bay esp. water http://sfbay.wr.usgs.gov Gov's Office of Emergency Services see California Emergency Plan - PDF http://www.oes.ca.gov REGIS GRASSLinks Public Access GIS for Bay Area http://regis.berkeley.edu/grasslinks/index.html San Luis Obispo Geographic Info Consortium (SLOGIC) data/projects http://www.slogic.org City of Ontario, California Online applications/info on how they started http://gis.ci.ontario.ca.us/gis/index.htm Island Resources Foundation: Cruise to the section on GIS and Carribean islands http://www.irf.org/ir_isis.html Archaelogy links Several good links for GIS in Archaelogy here http://users.erols.com/gourad NIJ and Hunter College Crime Mapping and Analysis/Links to other proj. http://everest.hunter.cuny.edu/capse/projects/nij/crime.html Professor Maidment's site GIS & Hydrology, courses, links, projects http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment Earthsat Company Great flood of 1993& GIS, Ag., geology... http://www.earthsat.com/index.html World Health Organization Division of Tropical Diseases/GIS http://www.who.int/ctd/index.html RiskINFO Insurance - Emergency Risk Management http://www.riskinfo.com/tech/feature5.html ESRI Many apps here - see ‘Your Industry’ link http://www.esri.com/industries/index.html ESRI Conference Archives Papers & Abstacts for many fields & applications http://www.esri.com/library/userconf/archive.html DATA
(see State & Local Gov’t, University, Application sites for
more) U. N. Databases. In table format, social indicator statistics http://www.un.org/databases U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Geographic Information Services http://www.bts.gov/gis Centers for Disease Control & Prev. USA Dept. Of Health & Human Serv.– Data & Stats http://www.cdc.gov National Spatial Data Clearinghouse Standards, metadata, data http://www.fgdc.gov/fgdc/fgdc.html USGS Lots of data http://www-nmd.usgs.gov USGS Coastline extractor Extract the section of coastline you want http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/coast/getcoast.html NOAA Environmental data – GLOBE program info/data http://www.noaa.gov Global Change Links, some to Global Environmental data sources http://www.globalchange.org/infoall/links-u.htm Sandia National Laboratories Data Checklist, before purchase http://www.sandia.gov/GIS/tutrs/datachk.html Metadata web site Info & links - see BLM “Barney” metadata tutorial http://www.blm.gov/gis/nsdi.html USGS Nat'l Spatial Data Clearingh. Info and Links to spatial data standards/metadata http://nsdi.usgs.gov U.S. State & local GIS links Links – many for statewide data http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/maps/state.htm CA dept. of Forestry & Fire Protect. FRAP - Metadata and data to download http://frap.cdf.ca.gov/data/frapgisdata/select.asp San Francisco Bay Area DEM's Also links to other data and a few other areas http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/digital/dem California Geographical Survey Census data & DEM's for California and other data http://geogdata.csun.edu Verde Watershed. GIS file - Arizona library of (GIS) data and maps http://www.verde.org/covers.html Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources Nice interface f/regional & state Nat. Resources data http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/nrgis/gishome.htm The Alexandria Project Links - search by subject for GIS and RS data http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu Center Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) National DB of GIS data/JapanGIS Guide http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/links/gis/local.html Center for Advanced Spatial Tech. (CAST) Guide to mostly free & mostly online data http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/hunt/index.html ESRI Free downloadable data, including CENSUS data http://www.esri.com/data/index.html ESRI’s ArcData Partners Catalog Variety of commercial data to use w/ESRI software http://gis.esri.com/metadata/directory.cfm Microsoft’s terraserver.com site Free and for Fee imagery and ways to use it http://www.terraserver.com Claritas Sells spatial data for marketing, health care http://www.claritas.com Geographic Data Technology -GDT A respected developer of up-to-date data (not free) http://www.geographic.com GPS & GIS
RELATED TECHNOLOGIES Trimble
Corporation Nice GPS Tutorial http://www.trimble.com Informational hub for GPS units. Covers different kinds of GPS units, software, white papers. http://www.joe.mehaffey.com Etak affordable online geocoding From set of addresses quickly returns lat/long http://www.etak.com MENTIONABLES Calculator’s
online You name it, its here ZD Net – terrific resource Reviews: computers,components/on-line comp. mags http://www.zdnet.com WEED
SPECIFIC NAWMA home page N. American Weed Management Association—links to their mapping standards http://www.nawma.org/ CDFA’s ‘Encycloweedia’. photos & descriptions of all CDFA rated weeds http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/weedinfo California Noxious Weed Control Project Inventory Lists projects by weed, county, control method http://endeavor.des.ucdavis.edu/weeds CDFA Noxious Weed Information Project Links to Purple Loosestrife, Noxious Times, Yellow Starthistle Mapping Project. http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/weedhome California Noxious Weed Control Project Inventory Lists projects by weed, county, control method http://endeavor.des.ucdavis.edu/weeds California Exotic Pest Plant Council Includes pest plant lists and other web links http://www.caleppc.org/ California Native Plant Society Invasive Exotic plant web links. Includes URLs for general information, biocontrol, integrated pest management, and selected target species http://www.cnps.org/links/exotics_links.htm Nature Conservancy’s Wildlands Invasive Species Program Photos for identifying weeds, weed alerts, stewardship control and management information http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/ University of California Weed Research and Information Center Weed information and education http://wric.ucdavis.edu/aboutwric/staff.htm Plant Conservation Alliance’s Alien Plant Working Group Information and fact sheets http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/index.htm Southwest Exotic Mapping Program (SWEMP) Includes interactive weed maps http://www.usgs.nau.edu/swemp Team Arundo del Norte (TAdN) Arundo mapping protocol with instructions and online database http://teamarundo.org CRISIS Maps (by the California Information Node of the NBII) Interactive maps with data combined from SWEMP, CalFlora, and TAdN based on a common standard http://cain.nbii.gov/crisis/crisismaps OTHERS Hooray for some good instructions for how to deal with projections
in AV 3.2! http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/county/pumpdvlp/ Forest Service page for locating Community Base Station for post-processing differential corrections http://www.fs.fed.us/database/gps/ Great resource for learning about different gps devices, especially recreational grade devices http://www.joe.mehaffey.com/ Get Waypoints plus here (downloads Waypoints from Garmin GPS into a format usable by AVGarmin http://www.tapr.org/~kh2z/Waypoint/ Online GIS magazine with discussion groups, utility downloads (extensions), and online utilities like decimal degree – degree –minute – second converter http://www.directionsmag.com/ Calflora’s webpage. Includes distribution information for weeds and other plants in CA http://www.calflora.org/ North
American Weed Management Association’s weed mapping standards. http://www.nawma.org/documents/ CDFA’s
encycloweedia http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/ipc/noxweedinfo/noxwdinfo_hp.htm Since you need scripts to do a lot of basic stuff in ArcView, make this link your friend. AVGarmin available here. http://gis.esri.com/arcscripts/index.cfm |
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