Internet GIS and RS Information Sites

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Compiled from various net resources by Michael McDermott.

This is a top level list of GIS and Remote Sensing information sites which are available on the Internet through FTP, Telnet, Gopher and World Wide Web hypertext links. A text file version of this document is can be downloaded to your computer by clicking here. Other GIS and RS information, including various data files and conversion programs, are available from the Queen's University Digital Map Library (access is restricted to Queen's users only at the moment). You may also try linking to the Department of Geography's home page, or to the Geo graphic Information Systems Laboratory WWW site.

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ImageNet - Landsat, SPOT and Russain RS Imagery archive/browser.
US National Biological Service, Environmental Management Technical Center.

ANU - Australian National University - Bioinformatics.
ANU - Australian National University - Landscape Ecology Services.
Arc/Info AML FTP site.
Arc/Info to IDRISI AML conversion routines.
AVHRR sample images and viewers - U.S. Weather Service Hydrologic RS Center.
BLM (US) - Various conversion programs and datasets.
CalTech (US) - Earth Viewer.
Canadian WWW servers top level list and virtual map.
CANSPACE - Canadian Space Geodesy Forum archive (lots of GPS info).
Catalogue of Digital Elevation Data (maintained by Bruce Gittings).
CCM - Canada Centre for Mapping.
CCM - Selected bibliography including hypermedia and geographic data.
CDIAC - Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center. Contains climate datasets.
Census Data archive (US) at the Lawrence Berkley Laboratory (WOW EVERYTHING!).
CERL/GRASS welcome file.
CERN - WWW Virtual Library on the subject of Geography.
CIESIN - Consortium for International Earth Science Information.
CIA World Databank.
CIA World Map database and lat/long coord. of major U.S. cities.
CMU Maps home page (US).
Delorme Mapping Corporation.
Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (German Climate Computer Centre).
Digital Map Library, Queen's University (restricted to Queens users only).
Digitized Outline of the U.S./world and 1980 Census County Boundaries.
DLG, DEM, GBF-DIME, DTM and TIGER files (US).
DLG-E Information.
Earth Observations Lab, Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science (CAN).
EINet Galaxy's Pointers to Geography Resources.
Environmental Info Resources Top Level List (maintained by David Crossley).
EPA - National library database (US).
EPI-MAP -US Center for Disease Control GIS source and data.
ERIN - Australian Environmental Resources Information Network.
EROS - US Earth Resources Observation Systems Remote Sensing Data Center.
ETOPO5 Sample colour shaded relief maps of the U.S.
Faculty of Regional Science and Architecture, U. of Vienna.
Fed. Institute of Technology GERMINAL Project - GIS/Env. Mgmt. and Planning.
FGDC (US) - Spatial Metadata Standard text source.
FGDC - US Manual of Federal Geographic Data Products.
Fish and Wildlife Service (US) National Wetlands Inventory FTP site.
Gazetter for the U.S.
GCMD - Global Change Master Directory.
GCTP - USGS General Cartographic Transformation Package.
Geodetic Survey of Canada.
GeoEAS - EPA (US) geostatistical library source.
Geographic name server for USA (enter name to search).
Geologic fault database for the U.S.
Geologic Map of U.S. Pacific Northwest Continental Margin.
Geological Survey of Canada On-Line Library.
GeoVu - NGDC MS-Windows GIS/RS data visualization program.
GIAL - Geographic Information and Analysis Laboratory: NCGIA Buffalo.
GIF Images of Israel and Surrounding Countries.
GIS Job Clearinghouse.
GIS Job Announcement Gopher Server.
GIS Master Bibliography Project (maintained by Duane Marble).
GIS Resource Pointers on the Internet (maintained by Roland Stahl).
GIS User's Guide to Internet Tools (maintained by S. Murnion and G. Munroe).
GIS-L and comp.infosystems.gis FAQ listing (maintained by Lisa Nyman).
GIS-L and comp.infosystems.gis FAQ listing alternate site.
GIS/Remote Sensing/GPS/Geosciences top level page at Texas A&M (very good).
GLIS - EROS Data Center Global Land Information System (X Windows only).
GLIS - Global Land Information System.
GMT - Generic Mapping Tools software source.
GPS Information Center, U.S. Coast Guard (login: select database 34).
GPS Information Sources (maintained by Richard Langley).
GPS satellite current constellation status.
GRASS GIS home page.
GRASS GIS source and data for Spearfish (South Dakota, US).
GRASS GIS source for LINUX.
GSLIB - Stanford U. Geostatistical Library source (FORTRAN).
HOLIT - Israel Ecological & Environmental Information System.
IDMSP - Raster image display/manipulation software.
IDRISI-L FTP site (donated data, modules and more).
ImageNet - Landsat, SPOT and Russain RS Imagery archive/browser.
Institute for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, U. of Karlsruhe (GER).
Institute for Photogrammetry, U. of Stuttgart (GER).
Institute for Regional Planing and Regional Science, U. of Hannover (GER).
Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science (CAN).
Institute of Geography, U. of Salzburg (restricted access).
IOWA Department of Natural Resources FTP site (US).
ISL - Information Systems Workgroup search page (several search engines).
Intergraph Corporation.
Japan Virtual Map.
JHU/APL Digital relief maps of U.S image browser.
JHU/APL ETOPO5 Digital relief maps of U.S.
KHOROS - visualizaion software development envoronment source (working?).
Lat/Long file of major world cities (coarse).
macGIS gopher server.
MapInfo FAQ (maintained by John McCombs).
MapInfo "maplication" programs.
McGill University Dept. of Earth Sciences (CAN).
Meta-Index of GIS related material on the Web (very comprehensive).
Meteorological, Geophysical and Oceanographic top level data list.
MIT - Earth Resources Laboratory.
MOSS - PC GIS source.
NAISMap - National Atlas Information Service (Canada) WWW-based GIS (very impressive).
NASA - home page.
NASA - Images from the Voyager and Magellan missions.
NASA - NASA Internet connections top level list.
Naval Observatory Automated Data Service.
NCAR - National Center for Atomospheric Research data support archive.
NCAR - US National Center for Atmospheric Research home page.
NCEER - Seismic Activity Server.
NCGIA FTP server at U. of Maine.
NCGIA WWW server as U. of Maine.
NCGIA FTP server at U.C. Santa Barbara (UCSB).
NCGIA WWW server at U.C. Santa Barbara (UCSB).
NCGIA WWW server SUNY Buffalo.
NGDC - National Geophysical Data Center (US) home page.
NRC - Natural Resources Canada (Energy, Mines and Resources Canada).
NRC - Natural Resources Canada On-line Library.
NSCA - WWW search engine meta-index (very useful).
NSSDC On-line Data and Informatino Server (including NASA master dir).
Online Career Center (useful for both GIS job searchers and GIS employers).
On-line Resoures for Earth Scientists FAQ (maintained by Bill Thoen).
ORNL - Oak Ridge Nat. Laboratory (US) fire simulation program EMBYR.
OSU - Ohio State University (US).
OZGis - OZ GIS source (msdos and windows).
Paleomagnetic database for the world. Includes DTM images.
PARC - Xerox Palo Alto Research Center map viewer.
Planet Earth Home Page (a very good top level WWW server).
PROJ - projection conversion program source.
Project GeoSim - Geography education software.
Rice University (US) - Geography, software, GIS info and more.
SAIF - Canadian Spatial Archive Interchange Format specifications.
Satellite images of Japan and the Pacific.
Satellite images, various.
SDTS - US Spatial Data Transfer Standard (FIPS 173).
Sea-surface temparature data (near real-time).
SOEST - Generic Mapping Tool (GMT).
Software Support Laboratory: Space and Earth Scientists Software Tools.
Space and Astronomy related FAQs.
SRSC - Space Remote Sensing Center, Inst. for Technology Development (US).
STIS - US NSF Science and Technology Information Service.
TAMU - Sample ETOP5 dataset relief images (working?).
TAMU - Texas A&M U. version of LINUX (access?).
Texas GIS Planning Council home page (inc. Texas GIS data).
UNC - U of North Carolina Inst. for Transportation Research and Education.
UNEP GRID database listing (GRIDLIST.DOS, GRIDLIST.WP5).
UNIDATA gopher server with weather summary maps for the U.S. and world.
US Bureau of the Census home page.
US Fish and Wildlife service - National Wetlands Inventory FTP site.
US Fish and Wildlife service - National Wildlife Refuge System WWW server.
US GeoData index files.
USGS - United States Geological Survey home page.
USGS - United States Geological Survey WAIS.
USGS beginners tutorial on GIS.
USGS Distributed Spatial Data Library.
USGS federal government data products catalog.
USGS GIS home page.
USGS GISLab FTP site - 1:250000 DEM depot.
USGS Global Land Information System (GLIS) - LANDSAT Archive.
USGS/EROS FTP site - DEM and DLG file depot.
USGS - Technical Standards and Cartographic Software.
US National Biological Service, Environmental Management Technical Center.
Virtual Tourist Map of WWW information services around the world.
VPFVIEW (DCW) program for UNIX (Sun workstations) - DND Canada.
Weather information, Japan.
Weather map - U.S.
Weather satellite and surface analysis images for North America.
WOCE - World Ocean Circulation Experiment and Oceanographic top level list.
World Data Bank - Worlds coastlines, countries, rivers etc.
World Fact Book.
WWW Search engines meta-index at Centre Universitaire d'Informatique (CUI).
WWW telnet client (only 10 users allowed at same time).
WWWW - World Wide Web Worm search engine.

Note: Some of the FTP sites listed may not be accessible from the World Wide Web due to a problem with the anonymous user password. These sites require a full e-mail address to be given instead of the abbreviated version many WWW clients supply as a default. You can gain access these sites through the use of a regular FTP session or by changing the e-mail address your Web client replies with.

E-mail any additions or corrections to Michael McDermott: mcdermom@gisdog.gis.queensu.ca
Last Update: 1/30/95