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Geospatial Tools and Software
Geospatial Modelling Environment - GME provides you with a suite of analysis and modelling tools
Maxent - Maxent software for modeling species niches and distributions
Circuitscape - This site is home to Circuitscape, Linkage Mapper, and Gnarly Landscape Utilities.
Gephi - Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Gephi is open-source and free.
GPlates - GPlates is desktop software for the interactive visualization of plate-tectonics
QGIS - A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System
ESRI - The industry leading standard for commercial GIS software
eCognition - Object Based Image Analysis (OBIA) commercial software
Corridor Design - Tools for connectivity, corridor, or habitat modeling
GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library for raster data conversions#
Geospatial Training and Support
GeoNet - ESRI GIS community forum and resources
Geospatial Analysis - Full online textbook for learning about Geospatial Analysis
eCog Community - User community for eCognition image classification software
Maxent - Google Group - User community for Maxent niche modeling software#
Illinois/Indiana and the Chicago Region DATA
CMAP Data Hub - Chicago Metropolitan Area Planning Agency
NIRPC - Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission
SEWRPC - Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission is the official metropolitan planning organization and regional planning commission 7-county southeastern Wisconsin area
Illinois Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Illinois State Geological Survey
Illinois State Geological Survey - Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) is part of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chicago in Maps Links to many historic and thematic maps of the Chicago region
Indiana Geological Survey - Indiana Geological and Water Survey (IGWS) an institution of Indiana University
NIRMI - Northwest Indiana Restoration Monitoring Inventory
IndianaMAP - the largest publicly available collection of Indiana GIS map data#
North America/ National DATA
Climage Wizard The Nature Conservancy climate change information and visualization
National Map Viewer - USGS website supplying downloadable elevation and LiDAR datasets
USGS/EROS - Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
USDA/NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway - Provides access to a map library of over 100 high resolution vector and raster layers in the Geospatial Data Warehouse
DATA.gov - US Open Government Data
CensusBureau - American FactFinder provides access to socioeconomic and demographic data about the United States
TIGER - Topographically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing spatial data can be linked to the Census Bureau’s American FactFinder
FEMA Map Service Center - Flood Map Service Center
Digital Coast - NOAA sponsored website focused on helping communities address coastal issues#
Andes/Amazon DATA
INEI - Sistema de Información Geográfica para Emprendedores
IBC - Instituto del Bien Común
RAISG Peru - RED Amazonica de Información socioambiental georeferenciada
IDEAM - Geoportal de búsqueda, visualización y descarga de información y datos espaciales
GeoSur - La RED, Geospatial De América Latina y El Caribe
CIMA - Centro de Conservación, Investigación y Manejo de Areas Naturales
ISA - Instituto Socioambiental en Perú
Terra-i - International Center for Tropical Agriculture
MAAP - Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Project
RAISG - Red Amazónica de Información Socioambiental Georreferenciada
IGM - Instituto Geológico Minero y Metalúrgico en Perú
Indice de Cartas Geológicas - Instituto Geológico Minero y Metalúrgico#
Global and Satellite DATA
WorldClim - Global Climate Data - Free climate data for ecological modeling and GIS
EarthExplorer - Raster data from a number of remote sensing platforms.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility - open-data research infrastructure funded by the world’s governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere access to data about all types of life on Earth.
FossilWorks - Fossilworks provides query, download, and analysis tools that utilize the Paleobiology Database's large relational database assembled by hundreds of paleontologists from around the world
Natural Earth - Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
OpenStreetMap Data Extracts - This server has data extracts from the OpenStreetMap project which are normally updated every day.
Copernicus Open Access Hub - The Open Access Hub provides complete, free and open access to
Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 user products.
Global Administrative Areas - Our goal is to map the administrative areas of all countries, at all levels.
Conservation Science Data and Tools - World Wildlife Fund
DigitalGlobe Commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content
Planet-Action - Organization that provides imagery grant opportunities for nonprofit organizations
GeoEye Foundation - Organization that provides imagery grant opportunities for nonprofit organizations
CGIAR-CSI - Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers/Consortium for Spatial Information