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GIS Resource Documents

Stephen A. Matthews
February 2005

The GIA Core staff have developed a series of "Resource Documents (RDs)." These RDs are designed to provide brief overviews of specific GIS issues, concepts and methods. Each document will include links to recommended websites as well as references to both classic citations and recently published materials. In addition, where appropriate these resource documents will include information on access to GIS resources at Penn State.

All files linked below are in PDF format.

The "GIS Resource Documents" include: (Future topics are listed in black, completed documents have blue active links)

See also Glossary Terms

GENERAL

Geographic Information Systems (GIS_RD_02-01)
GIS and Privacy (GIS_RD_03-51)
GIS and Spatial Demography (GIS_RD_03-63)

APPLICATIONS

GIS and Agricultural Economics (GIS_RD_03-54)
Anthropology, Archaeology and GIS (GIS_RD_02-32)
GIS and Historical Research (GIS_RD_05-71)
GIS and Human Fertility (GIS_RD_05-66)
Planning and GIS (GIS_RD_03-49)
Policing and GIS (GIS_RD_02-46)
Political Science and GIS (GIS_RD_02-31)
GIS and Population/Environment (GIS_RL_05-68)
Public Health and GIS (GIS_RD_02-43)
GIS and Rural Sociology (GIS_RD_03-55)

METHODS

Aerial Photography (GIS_RD_05-69)
Distance calculations using Spatial Analyst (GIS_RD_05-76)
Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (GIS_RD_02-09)
Geographically Weighted Regression (GIS_RD_02-07)
     Geographically Weighted Regression reading materials
Geostatistics (GIS_RD_02-05)
Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (GIS_RD_05-65)
Point Pattern Analysis (GIS_RD_03-41)
Remote Sensing (GIS_RD_03-52)
GIS and Spatial Analysis (GIS_RD_02-03)
Spatial Regression Models (GIS_RD_02-06)
Spatial Statistics (GIS_RD_02-04)
Working with Census data in ArcMap 9.x (GIS_RD_05-75)

SOFTWARE

ArcCatalog (GIS_RD_02-14)
ArcGIS (GIS_RD_02-12)
ArcGIS - Geostatistical Analyst (GIS_RD_02-19)
ArcGIS - Spatial Analyst (GIS_RD_02-18)
ArcGIS - 3D Analyst (GIS_RD_02-20)
ArcIMS (GIS_RD_02-16)
ArcMap (GIS_RD_02-13)
ArcToolbox (GIS_RD_02-15)
CrimeStat (GIS_RD_02-22)
CSISS-Spatial Tools (GIS_RD_05-67)
DIVA (GIS_RD_02-27)
Using DynESDA (GIS_RD_02-10)
Using DynESDA for Moran and Local Moran plots (GIS_RD_02-11)
Idrisi (GIS_RD_02-33)
PopMap (GIS_RD_02-28)
SAS/GIS (GIS_RD_02-44)
Enterprise Guide and Mapping in SAS (GIS_RD_02-34)
SpaceStat (GIS_RD_02-21)

CARTOGRAPHY/VISUALIZATION

GIS and Visualization (GIS_RD_02-08)
Cartograms (GIS_RD_05-61)
Choropleth Maps (GIS_RD_05-72)
Color Selection (GIS_RD_02-45)
Map Projections (GIS_RD_03-56)
Thematic mapping (GIS_RD_05-70)

TASKS

ArcGIS - Buffering (GIS_RD_02-50)
ArcGIS - Building geodatabases (GIS_RD_02-40)
ArcGIS - Conversion of Raster Images into Shapefiles using ArcScan (GIS_RD_06-77)
ArcGIS - Editing Features and Attributes (GIS_RD_02-38)
ArcGIS - Geocoding (GIS_RD_02-17)
Creating GIS Data (GIS_RD_02-37)
ArcGIS - Joining and relating tables (GIS_RD_02-36)

GIS TECHNOLOGY

Digitizing (GIS_RD_02-39)
Global Positioning Systems (GIS_RD_02-30)

DATA

US
CensusCD+Maps (GIS_RD_02-24)
Census 2000 Data & Software (GIS_RD_02-35)
Geospatial data (GIS_RD_02-02)
Public and Private School Data from NCES (GIS_RD_03-47)
Street CD and Street databases (GIS_RD_02-23)
INTERNATIONAL
International Databases (GIS_RD_02-25)
Africa Data Dissemination Service (GIS_RD_02-42)
Digital Chart of the World (GIS_RD_02-26)

TRAINING

GIS and Population Science R25 Training Grant (NICHD) (GIS_RD_05-62)
PSU World Campus GIS Certificate (GIS_RD_02-29)

GIS at PENN STATE

Profile of Geovista (GIS_RD_02-48)
GIS Council (GIS_RD_05-59)
GIS User Community (GIS_RD_05-60)
Profile of Map Library (GIS_RD_05-64)
PASDA: Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (GIS_RD_03-58)
Profile of PSIE (GIS_RD_03-53)

GIS ORGANIZATIONS

Open Geospatial Consortium (GIS_RD_05-73)
UCGIS: University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (GIS_RD_03-57)

GIA CORE PROJECTS

Welfare Project (GIS_RD_05-74)

If you have any suggestions for short two-page documents please send suggestions to Stephen A.
Matthews (matthews@pop.psu.edu). We will try to accommodate all requests.

Stephen A. Matthews, Ph.D. Director, GIA Core Population Research Institute Social Science Research Institute The Pennsylvania State University

Tel: 814 863-9721 Fax: 814 863-8342 E-mail: matthews@pop.psu.edu

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