Web Resources
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Ecology | |
| ACA | Alberta Conservation Association is a non profit, non government association working collaboratively to conserve, protect and enhance Alberta’s wildlife, fisheries and habitat |
| BiologyBrowser | see the "GIS Tools for Conservation Planning" link |
| CanSIS | Canadian Soil Information System characterizes the land resources of Canada with emphasis on the agricultural regions |
| CWS | Canadian Wildlife Service - of particular interest are the research topics and maps |
| ESRI's Conservation Program Resources | ESRI's web page of interest for conservation mapping/GIS, papers and proceedings, and links to public conservation and GIS data for downloading |
| GFW Canada | Global Forest Watch Data Warehouse for Canada; visit www.globalforestwatch.org for other countries |
| IALE | International Association of Landscape Ecology |
| NatureServe Canada | Canadian network of Conservation Data Centres, Natural Heritage Information Centres and Natural Heritage Programs in the mission of collecting, interpreting, and disseminating ecological information critical to the conservation of the world's biological diversity, links to NatureServe |
| NBII | U.S. National Biological Information Infrastructure site has tools for environmental and ecological analysis |
| PLANTS Database | provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories |
| SCGIS | Society for Conservation GIS is a non-profit organization that builds community, provides knowledge, and supports individuals using GIS and science for the conservation of natural resources and cultural heritage |
| The Wildlife Society - GIS, RS, and Telemetry | Geographic Information System, Remote Sensing, and Telemetry Working Group; has links to GIS-related conferences and meetings |
| UNEP-WCMC | United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides information for policy and action to conserve the living world; link to main UNEP website to search for "GIS" |
| USFWS GIS | US Fish & Wildlife Service GIS home page with emphasis on spatial data |
| WWF WildFinder | the World Wildlife Fund's map-driven, searchable database of more than 30,000 species worldwide (click here to access downloadable GIS data) |
Free GIS Data & Resources | |
| Alberta & Canada | a variety of vector and raster digital data from online Canadian and Alberta sources |
| Conservation Online |
a no cost public repository of tools, techniques and experiences available to conservation practitioners created and maintained by The Nature Conservancy in partnership with other conservation organizations |
| Atlas of Canada | cartographic and geographic information on Canada |
| ARCUS | Arctic Research Consortium of the United States hosts GIS data and metadata relevant to arctic research |
| BC MSRM GIS | spatial data documentation and links to other programs and data at the British Columbia Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management |
| Canadian Climate | national climate data from Environment Canada - and links to other climate information and surface water (hydrometric and sediment) data archives |
| CIS | access to daily and regional ice charts from the canadian Ice Service |
| CTIS | Centre for Topographic Information in Sherbrooke - digital topographic data and Canada's topographic maps |
| ColorBrewer | an online tool designed to help people select good color schemes for maps and other graphics |
| GeoConnections Discovery Portal | Canada's Geographic Information on the Internet where you can find data, organizations, and services |
| ESRI Free Data | free GIS-ready data from Environmental Systems Research Institute |
| GeoCommunity | THE gathering place for GIS, CAD, Mapping, and location-based industry professionals, enthusiasts, and students |
| Online Geodetic Tools | web-based Canadian software for transforming between datums, coordinate systems, along with GPS utilities |
| GEOGRATIS | download FREE Canadian spatial data... everything from base maps to CLI to satellite imagery |
| Geomatics Yukon | access the Government of Yukon's spatial data and services; the Yukon Spatial Data Clearinghouse has a variety of free data for download |
| GIS Lounge | a one-stop source for everything GIS |
| GeoSask | Saskatchewan digital data and map products |
| MLI | Manitoba Land Intiative provides access to geo-spatial information from the Government of Manitoba |
| NWT | Northwest Territories Centre for Remote Sensing provides remote sensing and GIS services |
| Spatial Hydrology | contains published research, free software downloads, access to a data warehouse, and other GIS and hydrological information |
| TOPORAMA | free raster maps and orthophotos for portions of Canada (click here for the online mapping service) |
| UBC Geography GIS/Cartography Links | searchable database - an excellent resource well worth bookmarking on your browser!!! |
| World Climate |
set of global climate layers with a spatial resolution of a square kilometer |
General Utilities | |
| Adobe Acrobat Reader | program for reading *.pdf documents |
| FTP | programs for transferring files to your AICT account or another computer |
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excellent free program for FTP | |
| IrfanView | 32-bit graphic viewer/converter freeware |
| MegaConvertor | web-based utility of weights, measures and units conversion/calculation modules |
| Zip Genius | excellent free program for compressing/decompressing archives (i.e. those .zip files) |
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GPS & Telemetry | |
| Bluesky Telemetry | manufacturer of wildlife telemetry GPS collars, houses the download site for Home Range - an ArcGIS extension, as well as a comprehensive database of over 1200 wildlife telemetry (including GPS and ARGOS) papers published since 1980 |
| BioTelemetry | web service for researchers using biotelemetry as a means for collecting data; has links to Software and Data Analysis, Conferences and Meetings, Methods, Directories and other online resources |
| DNR Garmin | extension for use with ESRI software that allows direct transfer of data between Garmin GPS handheld receivers and various GIS software packages |
| GARMIN | GARMIN International is the industry leader in Global Positioning System (GPS) technology |
| Global Positioning Systems | all the resources you need for GPS from the USGS |
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Canadian GPS retailer | |
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Calgary-based GPS retailer that specializes in receivers and related accessories - inquire about possible education pricing | |
| GPS Receiver Information, Software, and Hardware Reviews | Joe, Jack, and Dale's site on everything GPS (Garmin, Lowrance, and Magellan GPS) at gpsinformation.net |
| GPSy | links to info on GPS for primarily Macintosh computers |
| GPS World | first and only international monthly journal that features news and applications of the Global Positioning System |
| International GNSS | International Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Service provides orbits, tracking data, and other high-quality data products online in near real time |
| OziExplorer | official web site for the OziExplorer GPS mapping software that works with Magellan, Garmin, Lowrance, Eagle and MLR GPS receivers |
| Trimble | leading innovator of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and advanced GPS components |
Remote Sensing Resources | |
| Air Photo Distribution | Alberta Sustainable Resource Development's collection of over 1.3 million aerial photographs covering the entire province of Alberta dating back to 1949 |
| ASTER | high spatial resolution imaging instrument on the Terra satellite |
| Digital Globe | high-resolution earth imaging satellites and a comprehensive geo-information product store (QuickBird) |
| Geomatics Canada | THE home page for GIS/RS in the federal government |
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satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products from the U.S. Geological Survey | |
| GLCF | largest free source of Landsat data made available by the University of Maryland's Global Landcover Facility |
| Landsat 7 | everything you need to know about Landsat 7 |
| LP DAAC | Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center's download site for free 1 km GTOPO30 digital elevation models and AVHRR imagery (other products for cost) |
| ORNL DAAC | Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center's source for biogeochemical and ecological data useful for studying environmental processes |
| Remote Sensing Tutorial | tutorial from NASA on remote sensing, satellite imagery, ground truthing, classification, etc. |
Software in the GIS Lab | |
| ESRI | THE ArcGIS, ArcView, and ArcInfo, site for Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. |
| ESRI ArcScripts | download various scripts and sample codes contributed by ESRI's user community |
| ESRI Canada | Canadian content for ESRI |
| ESRI Online Support | online support center for ESRI software products, downloads, ArcObjects and extensions, samples, data models, discussion forums, etc. |
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access to web-based help, online data, and key support services for ArcGIS, including spcific sites on geoprocessing, image management, tips on making great looking maps with GIS, and many more resources from the ESRI community | |
| FRAGSTATS | computer software program designed by University of Massachusetts to compute a wide variety of landscape metrics for categorical map patterns |
| ERDAS Imagine | image processing software, newsletters, discussion lists, freeware |
| S-PLUS | Insightful's solution for exploratory data analysis and statistical modeling |
Statistical & Spatial Software | |
| AI-GEOSTATS | THE central information server for geostatistics and spatial statistics |
| CSU Software | ecology-related software developed by Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology and Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, Colorado State University |
| DIVA-GIS | free GIS software that was developed for use with biological distribution data such as available from natural history museums and genebanks |
| Easy Calculate | a set of expressions (from ian-ko.com) for the ArcGIS field calculator |
| ESRI ArcExplorer | free GIS data viewer offers an easy way to perform a variety of basic GIS functions, including display, query, and data retrieval applications; use it on its own with local data sets or as a client to Internet data and map servers |
| FreeGIS | software overview, communications on development of free software and data |
| GeoDa | software tools developed by Anselin and co-workers designed to implement techniques for exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) on lattice data (points and polygons); has descriptive spatial data analysis, such as spatial autocorrelation statistics and indicators of spatial outliers |
| GeoVista Studio | an open software development environment from Pennsylvania State University designed for geospatial data that allows users to quickly build applications for geocomputation and geographic visualization, with no programming required |
| GISCafe Downloads | freeware/shareware GIS or general utility software |
| GIS Development | free data, tools, and utilities from gisdevelopment.net |
| GRASS GIS | the official site of the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System - an open source, Free Software Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphics production functionality |
| Home Range Tools | extension by Dr. Art Rodgers and Angus Carr of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources that extends ArcGIS to analyse the home range of animals |
| Jenness Enterprises | ArcGIS extensions of ecologically applicable applications with excellent documentation |
| Patch Analyst | ArcGIS 9.x extension that facilitates the spatial analysis of landscape patches, and modeling of attributes associated with patches |
| SaTScan | a free program to analyze spatial, temporal and space-time count data using the spatial, temporal, or space-time scan statistics |
| Spatial Ecology | Hawth's Tools extension for ArcGIS |
| R | free and open source software package for statistical analyses - has useful spatial add-ons |
Tutorials & Online References | |
| AVI | Alberta Vegetation Inventory Standards Manual - chapter 3 describes all those codes/abbreviations |
| BASIS | Berry & Associates/Spatial Information Systems provides full online manuals ("Map Analysis" and "The GIS Primer") and other resources |
| CCRS Tutorials | Canada Centre for Remote Sensing tutorials, digital analysis techniques, terminology, and educational fun |
| Geospatial Analysis | THE most up-to-date reference on the science and technology of GIS |
| ESRI Online Training | online courses using ESRI GIS software (some modules are free!) |
| free-ed.net | free online courses on a variety of subjects including Computer Information Systems (database and spreadsheets) |
| Fundamentals of Physical Geography | very good reference created by Michael J. Pidwirny, Ph.D., Department of Geography, Okanagan University College |
| Grime's GIS Formats and Tools | Grime's list of file formats in GIS, 3D & imagery and what to treat them with... |
| Spreadsheet Exercises in... | Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit's quantitative methods for analyzing wildlife population dynamics, spreadsheet exercises on a variety of ecological and evolutionary topics, including quantitative estimation of population parameters, ecology and evolution, conservation biology and landscape ecology |
| Microsoft Tutorials | not GIS, but related techniques of database and spreadsheet courses are available here |
| NCGIA Core Curricula | National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, includes GIS Core Curriculum for Technical Programs (CCTP) |
| Geomorphology from Space | an out of print 1986 NASA publication edited by Nicholas M. Short, Sr. and Robert W. Blair, Jr. designed for use by the remote sensing science and educational communities to study landforms and landscapes |
| Quantitative Decisions Class Notes | a concise class on how to use ArcView GIS from quantdec.com |
| The Geographer's Craft | an experimental course designed to provide you with the best possible introduction to modern geographical research techniques |
| USGS Map Projections | handy summaries of map projection properties, suitable areas, and general uses from U.S. Geological Survey |
University of Alberta Resources | |
| ACCRU | Alberta Cooperative Conservation Research Unit... a consortium of wildlife and fisheries programs at: University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and University of Lethbridge |
| DiTRL | development of research communication and instruction material for biology |
| BSCS | BioSci Computing Services |
| AICT | Academic Information & Communications Technology services at the University of Alberta (formerly CNS) |
| UofA's ESRI Site Licence | direct access to ESRI site licensed software and product sales through AICT |
| EAS | Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences |
| EOSL | Earth Systems Observation Laboratory - Earth and Atmospheric Science research in GIS and remote sensing |
| Library Spatial Data | information on campus access to digital spatial data through the University of Alberta Libraries |
| RenR | Department of Renewable Resources |
| SISLAB | Spatial Information Systems Laboratory for GIS, image analysis, ecosystem modeling, and pattern recognition |
| SunSITE Alberta | summary of the GIS and other projects that SunSITE Alberta is currently hosting |
Last Modified: 2009-10-30