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Academic Institutions

• Carnegie-Mellon Univ. maps page
• City Univ. of NY Hunter College Dept. of Geology & Geography
• Harvard Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sci.
• Ohio St. Univ., Dept. of Geography.
• Queens Univ. GIS Laboratory
• Univ. of Leicester
• Univ. of Texas GPS page Very complete.

Commercial Sites

• GeoWeb. A commercial list of GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing resources, mostly from commercial providers. Repeatedly spams Usenet news groups with annoying, out-of-date, off-topic ads disguised as job announcements.

Data Archives

• Digital Geospatial Data Source Directory
• EOS Data Resources
• Earth Orientation Parameters Product Center. Find out which way the Earth is pointing!
• Int. Celestial Reference Frame.
• NASA GSFC - NIMA Geopotential Model.
• OSUMSS95 1/16deg mean sea surface

Governments outside the US

• Canada Centre for Mapping
• UK Natural Environment Research Council

International Organizations

• Bureau Gravimétrique International (BGI).
• Int. Assoc. of Geodesy (IAG).
• Int. Assoc. of Geomagnetism & Aeronomy (IAGA).
• International Earth Rotation Service.

Publications

• Journal of Geodesy.
• Standort - Zeitschrift für angewandte Geographie.
• Springer Geosciences Journals.

Software

• Environmental Systems Research Inst., Inc. The ARC/INFO people.
• GRASS
• Generic Mapping Tools. A FREE set of very good mapping and graphics tools. Especially suitable for meteorology and oceanography.
• Manifold System. Inexpensive GIS and graphics.
• NetCDF format. The NetCDF format is widely used for geoscience data, including Unidata data.
• PROJ-4 USGS map projection software

Tutorials and FAQs

• GPS GLONASS Geodesy Page of Alfred Leick
• Geography Guide, The Mining Co.
• Radar Mapping Home Page. A very good intro to techniques from Hunter College.
• Terrain Analysis Home Page. From Hunter college. A good introduction.

US Government Institutions

• NASA Space Geodesy Networks and Sensor Calibration Office Satellite laser ranging and very-long baseline interferometry.

Web Indexes

• Odden's Bookmarks, World of Maps & Mapping This is huge!
• Oliver Weatherbee's Remote Sensing/GPS/GIS Data & Information page
• Queens Univ. GIS sites list
• Remko Scharroo's bookmarks. Good on satellite altimetry.
• WWW Virtual Library - Cartography

Paul D. Farrar

Last updated 17 Jul 03