Ecological Monitoring and Mapping Laboratory

GIS/Remote Sensing/GPS Resources

This will be a dynamic list that will grow (and improve, I hope) as I have time to expand the links.
There are already many 'meta lists' of resources and I will point to many of those here rather than recreating work that has been done

Starting Points

A great site to just explore is the United States Geological Survey Home Page
The USGS Michigan Page lists USGS activities in Michigan
Download USGS Digital Data
The Federal Geographic Data committee coordinates the development of the NSDI and Metadata standards

The GIS Data Depot at the Gecommunity Web Site has all the data available from the USGS, plus lots more, in one place!!!
Jump to the data for the United States...


The Michign DNR Spatial Data Library is an excellent source for Michigan data (MIRIS base data, TIGER data. Digital Raster Graphics, Watershed boundaries, more...) plus educational pages on coordinate systems commonly used in Michigan

GIS Links and Tools

Esri Home Page
ArcView User Connection
Arc workspace translator (convert PC Arc/Info coverages to Arc/Info v7.x coverages)

Metadata Resources and Tools

FGDC Metadata Page
Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
ArcView Metadata Collector
MetaMaker Home Page

GPS Resources

GPS Resource Library
US Coast Guard Navigation Center

Base Station Files
Michigan Tech University (Houghton, MI)
Delta-Menominee DHD (Escanaba, MI)
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (Thunder Bay, Ontario)
MSU Forestry (East Lansing, MI)
CORS Network and Data (National)
List of Trimble Community Base Stations
U.S. Forest Service Clickable Image Map of Base Stations

Remote Sensing Links

ERIM Home Page
NASA Home Page

Vendors
ERDAS
ERDAS FAQ on Procedures
ERDAS FAQ -- General
ER Mapper
PCI

Federal Agency Resources

The CIA Web Server
The CIA's publications
Check out the EROS Data Center home page
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
National Geophysical Data Center
USGS EMTC Home Page
NSDI MetaData Sites
NSF Geosciences Unidata Integrated Earth Information Server (IEIS)

Mapping Resources

TIGER map server
U. S. Bureau of the Census Home Page
John Snyder's Bibliography of Map Projections
Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center
Maps of National Parks and National Monuments at the University of Texas
Mapping the National Parks at the Library of Congress

Earth Science Resources

Online Resources for Earth Scientists
GISnet BBS WWW Home Page
http://emmap.mtu.edu/net/
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