Satellite Images of the World

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Satellite images of much of the world are available from:

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/

although translating the data back to graphics sometimes may be cumbersome...

Good luck.

Luis

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                            Luis A. Ruedas
                    Museum of Southwestern Biology
                         Department of Biology
                       University of New Mexico
                  Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131-1091

voice: 505/277-5340                               fax: 505/277-0304
                  e-mail: lruedas@sevilleta.unm.edu

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Subject: GIS summary

Thanks to all who found time to reply to my request of info about a simple GIS for wildlife management.

Here I resume the suggestions given:

IDRISI (http://www.idrisi.clarku.edu/) has been suggested as the right choice by 3 researchers (although "It does take some time to learn")

PC Raster (ftp://pop.frw.ruu.nl) ("simple but not limited in its applications and capabilities); 3 suggestions

GRASS (http://www.cecer.army.mil/grass/GRASS.main.html; available for DOS, Win & (with some complication) Unix); 2 suggestions

Arc-Info 2 suggestions

The following have received 1 suggestion each:

MapMaker (rather a cartographic browser than a GIS) REGIS ERMAPPER (that turned out to be rather an image analyzer than a GIS) TNTlite (http://www.microimages.com; free+commercial version; available for practically any platform an OS)

One researcher suggested to try asking in comp.infosystems.gis.

Again, many thanks!

Dr Paolo Cavallini

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