Resources
Software
Links to Free GIS, Spatial Analysis, and Geostatistics Software:
Spatial Analysis for Macroecology (Version 3.0 now available)
http://www.ecoevol.ufg.br/sam/
Spatial Statistics and Image Analysis (Center for Astrostatistics, Penn State)
http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/statcodes/sc_spatial.html
Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (UCSB)
http://www.csiss.org
GIS and Population Science (PRI/CSISS) Spatial Analysis Tools
http://www.csiss.org/GISPopSci/research/tools/spatial.php
GIS and Population Science (PRI/CSISS) Population & Health-related Tools
http://www.csiss.org/GISPopSci/research/tools/popsci.php
AI-Geostats a Web Resource for Geostatistics and Spatial Statistics
http://www.ai-geostats.org/
Dr. Atsuyuki Okabe (University of Tokyo) links to FREE Spatial Analysis Tools
http://ua.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/okabelab/freesat/
CommonGIS Software from the The Institute for Geoinformatics (IFGI) University of Mnster
http://alex.ais.fraunhofer.de/zeno/web?action=content&journal=15121&rootid=15093
The Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi) at the University of Mnster offers an e-learning course on digital cartography using CommonGIS for online demonstrations and exercises.
http://karto1.uni-muenster.de/index.htm
Stand-alone GIS packages:
- ArcGIS 9.X - the newest version of the ESRI GIS software - available at three levels of increasing functionality: ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo. The ArcGIS software package provides advanced spatial data integration and presentation with advanced spatial and statistical analysis.
- ArcView 3.X - this previous version of the ESRI GIS software is also available for use, with many custom designed scripts and add-on extensions developed for specific research projects.
- ArcIMS - internet mapping software from ESRI. Data can be viewed and shared over the Internet, queries and basic analysis can also be performed.
- GeoDa developed by Dr. Luc Anselin's Spatial Analysis Laboratory (SAL) in the Department of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is designed to implement techniques for exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) on lattice data (points and polygons). The free program provides a user friendly and graphical interface to methods of descriptive spatial data analysis, such as spatial autocorrelation statistics, as well as basic spatial regression functionality.
- SpaceStat - this DOS-based package provides the means for calculating various spatial statistics. The SpaceStat extension for ArcView customizes the ArcView interface to aid in the visualization of SpaceStat data analysis results.
- CrimeStat - a statistical package for the analysis of point locations.
- PopMap (link is no longer active) - mapping program developed with support from the Statistics Division of the UN. PopMap is freeware specifically designed to support and promote geospatial approaches to population research.
- GeoBUGS - GeoBUGS has been developed by a team at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health of Imperial College at St Mary's Hospital London. It is an add-on to WinBUGS that fits spatial models and produces a range of maps as output.
- Econometrics Toolbox - MATLAB econometrics functions
- spdep package for R - A collection of functions to create spatial weights matrix objects from polygon contiguities, from point patterns by distance and tesselations, for summarising these objects, and for permitting their use in spatial data analysis
- Hawth's Analysis Tools - Hawth's Analysis Tools is an extension for ESRI's ArcGIS (specifically ArcMap). It is designed to perform spatial analysis and functions that cannot be conveniently accomplished with out-of-the-box ArcGIS.
- ET GeoTools & ET GeoWizards - A set of editing tools for ArcMap. Increase your productivity. Make your ArcView licenses work for you - & A collection of powerful data manipulation, topology and surface functions for ArcGIS.
- Multiple Minimum Distance (ArcMap 9) - For two feature classes, Source and Reference, this tool will find the nearest Reference feature for each Source record. Distance and some Reference feature information will be placed in the Source file. Honors selections on the Source file. CAD files are excluded from consideration as Source.
- Pick Address - The Pick Address tool allows users to manually specify the locations of addresses that could not be matched by a geocoding service. This tool updates the geometry of the feature in the geocoded feature class, as well as the X and Y coordinate attributes of the feature. The Status attribute of the geocoded feature is changed to "C".
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