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Fogler Guide to Spatial Information Science & Engineering
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The following are selected resources that are available at Fogler Library
or on the Internet. If you have questions about finding information
related to Spatial Information Science & Engineering, please contact the Science and Engineering
Center: 581-1691 or email Martin Wallace. Or use our
Ask a
Librarian service.
Many databases can be useful to find citations for journal
articles and technical reports related to spatial engineering. search URSUS by
journal title to determine if Fogler Library owns a journal of interest. See also
the GIS
Journalsinformation page for a listing of journals that are
available through Fogler Library or available freely over the Internet.
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital
Library. Access all Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
journals, magazines, transactions, conference proceedings, and newsletters
back to early 1950s.
- INSPEC. Coverage is 1969 - Present. Provides worldwide coverage of the
research literature for the fields of physics, electrical engineering,
electronics, computer hardware and software, control engineering and
information technology. It is produced by the Institution of
Electrical Engineers, Great Britain. Literature is reviewed from over
3,500 journals and 1,500 conference proceedings each year. Database is
updated weekly. Searching in combination with Compendex is recommended and
utilize the "Remove Duplicates" feature.
- Compendex (Engineering Index). Coverage is 1970 - Present. The best
multidisciplinary engineering database that indexes over 5000 engineering
journals, conferences and technical reports. Use their subject headings to
obtain more precise results. Access is provided by the following indexes:
author, author's affiliation (university or company), keywords from the
abstract and title, subject terms and source title (journal or conference
title). Compendex is part of the Engineering Village. This service also
provides specialized indexing of the Internet, a technical standards
database, and a link to the U.S. Patent Database. Print copy located at Sci Index
TA1.E6, 1884 - 1995.
- Web
of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present. Online version
of Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and
Humanities Citation Index. Citation searching provides one method for
bringing your list of references more up-to-date. Take your most
important known papers and use this index to determine if they have been
cited by more recent journal articles. They index over 8,500 journals
but do not include technical reports, conference papers or
theses.
- Academic
Search Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over
3,200 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including
social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering,
and mathematics. Good resource for a few basic articles on a topic. This database is designed for undergraduate research. For a more
comprehensive search, search Academic Search Premier, Business Source
Premier and Master File Premier at the same time. Select the Choose
Databases link in the EBSCO interface to select multiple databases.
- AGRICOLA. Coverage is 1978 - Present. An electronic database with records
for articles, technical reports, and book chapters on all aspects of agriculture and
allied disciplines, including agricultural economics, and GIS analysis. (Non-UMaine users may want to use the AGRICOLA database at the National Agricultural Library website. )
- ASCE Research Library. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. The ASCE Research Library is a
full text database that covers 1995 to the present of ASCE journals and
proceedings. The Civil Engineering Database covers ASCE documents published
1970
to present. It provides access to all the journals, conference proceedings,
books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters. A unique
feature of the database is that it links discussions, closures, and erratas
back to the original records. For coverage prior to 1970, use the
"Cumulative Index to ASCE Publications," 1950 - 1979. Print copy at Sci Index TA1.A53.
- Business
Source Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 3200 business and industry journals. Coverage is
back to the 1950's for some important publications and contains detailed
company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies
- Citeseer.com. Scientific Literature Digital Library. NEC Corp. Indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web. Has citation searching component.
- Citidel. Computing and
Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library. Guide to
internet tools and research resources developed by a university consortium.
- CogPrints. CogPrints is an electronic archive for papers in many areas of Computer
Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison,
learning, speech, neural networks). Access is provided by browsing a subject
category or searching by keyword. Full text of the cited references is
available.
- Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies. A collection of bibliographies on
subjects such as artificial intelligence, neural networks, computer graphics, etc.
maintained by researchers worldwide. Journal articles, conference papers, and
technical reports are listed. Some links to the online fulltext.
- Computing Research
Respository (CoRR). This service is sponsored by the ACM,
arXiv.org, NCSTRL and AAAI. This is a database of preprints in
computer science. Mechanisms for searching, downloading and submitting
preprints are provided. These preprints are not referreed.
- Digital
Dissertations Indexes
dissertations and theses written by graduates of North American and European
universities. The complete text of dissertations written at the University of
Maine after 1996 is included.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Provides access to the full text of over 1100 free scholarly
journals. Some journals are searchable at the article level. Also
provides access by broad subject areas.
- Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Scientific and Technical Information Network. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Access to all unclassified, unlimitedcitations to documents added
into DTIC from late December 1974 to present, many from 1998 to present in
full text.
- Ecology
Abstracts. Coverage is 1982 - present. Indexes
the broad area of the interactions of organisms with their environment.
Includes information on conservation, pollution, ecosystem management, and
GIS.
- Energy
Citations Database. Coverage is 1948 - Present. Contains
bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical
reports and papers sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) and its
predecessor agencies. It provides coverage of traditional and alternative
forms of energy production and conservation. Contains many
citations to GIS related projects.
-
Environmental
Engineering Abstracts. Coverage is 1990 -
Present. Produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. The focus
of this database is engineering aspects of air and water quality,
environmental safety, and energy production. More than 700 primary journals
are covered and over 2,500 additional sources, including monographs and
conference proceedings. Also indexes evaluated internet sites.
- Environmental Protection Agency. Databases and Software for
Geographic Information Systems.
-
Environmental
Sciences and Pollution Management Produced by Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts. Provides access to several databases at
once: Agricultural &
environmental biotechnology abstracts (1993-present); AFSA Aquatic pollution
& environmental quality (1990-present); Ecology abstracts
(1982-present); EIS Digests of environmental impact statements
(1985-present); Environmental engineering abstracts (1990-present); Health
& safety sciences abstracts (1981-present); Industrial & applied
microbiology abstracts (Microbiology A) (1982-present); Bacteriology
abstracts (Microbiology B) (1982-present); Pollution abstracts
(1981-present); Risk abstracts (1990-present); Toxicology abstracts
(1981-present); Water resources abstracts (1967-present). Helpful to
search all the files at once. Also indexes evaluated internet sites.
- ESRI Virtual
Campus: GIS education and training on the web. This database
contains over 17,500 references to GIS research information for 1991 to
present. Very comprehensive. Contains links to online journals
and magazines and the table of contents and abstracts for many conference
proceedings. Some conference proceedings have the full text
available.
- Forest
Products Abstracts. current 10 years online. Index to all
aspects of the forest products literature including wood properties, timber
extraction and damage, composites and laminates, pulp industry, and
business issues. This databases is updated bi-monthly and indexes over 450
journals (see
Serials cited
in Forest Products Abstracts). Print index located at Sci
Index SD 430 F66.
- Georef. Coverage: 1785+ for North America and 1933+ for the rest of the world. Produced by the American Geological Institute,
it covers geology and related disciplines including: geochemistry, geophysics, hydrology, mineralogy, and paleontology. Indexes over 3,500 journals as well as books, reports, theses and dissertations, maps, and conference proceedings and corresponds to the following print indexes: Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, Bibliography of Theses in Geology, Geophysical Abstracts, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology. Updated monthly.
Print copy located at Sci Index QE1.G2145
- Geospatial Data
Clearinghouse. Searches over 250 spatial data servers.
- Google
Scholar. Beta version, under construction. Indexes
scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books,
preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Google Scholar
includes articles from a variety of academic publishers, professional
societies, preprint repositories and universities. They rank results
based on their relevance criteria.
- IEEE
Xplore. IEEE Xplore is a searchable
database which includes the 130+ journals published by the IEEE and IEE and
also their conference proceedings and the current edition of IEEE standards.
Indexing extends back to 1988 for all journals and conference proceedings
and further back to 1950 for selected publications. Full text of IEEE
journal articles is available for 1998 to present. Full text is not
available through IEEE Xplore for the IEE journals or IEEE and IEE
conference proceedings and standards. Check URSUS to determine our holdings
of these publications. The database allows simple keyword and phrase
searching or complex search queries employing a variety of operators. Tables
of contents are available for browsing and there is also a useful alerting
service. Register to have an email alert sent of the table of contents when
a new issue is published. We have contracted for 5 simultaneous users.
- Ingenta. A multidisciplinary database
containing citations and some abstracts for articles in over 17,000 journals from
1988-present. Access is only really available by title words and
author. Valuable because of the wide multidisciplinary coverage.
- Lecture
Notes in Computer Science. WWW Database. PARTIAL
FULL TEXT DATABASE. Freely available on
the web and allows searching and provides abstracts for volume 500 of the
series to the present. Also we have a subscription to
Springer-Verlag
Link searching service. Allows access to full text papers from
Lecture Notes in Computer Science and searching by author, title, abstract
keywords, conference title, etc. First time login requires User-ID: roj575uj
Password: qvh706ye
- Literature Search
of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences
- Maine Environmental
Monitoring and Assessment Program Index. (MEMAP). Listing of
programs that monitor and assess Maine's environment.
-
MasterFILE
Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 1,830 general
reference, business, consumer health, general science. Full text
extends back to January, 1990. Indexing and abstracts is
available for an additional 1,000 journals.
- MathSciNet. Coverage is 1940 - Present. Searchable database of citations and
abstracts of mathematical journal articles and books. It also includes
full-text reviews of many of the articles. This is the electronic
version of Mathematical Reviews (Sci Index QA 1 M7) and Current
Mathematical Publications (shelved in Sci Periodicals).
- MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.
- National
Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) Publications
list and access to many full text documents.
- Networked Computer Science
Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL). A searchable database of computer science technical
reports from over 100 institutions worldwide. Over 20,000 reports are
available in full text.
- National Standards
Systems Network (NSSN). Searchable bibliographic database of thousands of
industrial standards and specifications and links to many standards-issuing
organizations.
- NASA
Technical Report Server (NTRS). This database collects,
archives, and disseminates aerospace information produced by NASA and other
relevant worldwide research.
- Oceanic
abstracts. 1981-present online. Material covered includes
ecology, environmental protection, and marine pollution. Over 3,500 journals
and other resources including conference proceedings and technical reports
are indexed.
- Public Educational
Access to Environmental Information in Maine. (PEARL). Database of environmental data on Maine lakes.
- Pollution
Abstracts. 1981 - present. Presented by Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts this resources covers air, water, land and noise pollution. Industry pollution problems and solutions are covered. Updated
monthly.
- Rural
Development Abstracts. Part of the CABDirect Package. Use
the advanced search option to restrict to the Rural Development subset only.
Indexes journals as well as books, reports, and conference proceedings.
Updated weekly.
- Science Accelerator, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Search collections of DOE research results, project descriptions, and accomplishments. These collections enable you to find out about ongoing research projects, explore significant DOE discoveries, learn about DOE Nobel Prize Winners, access and search scientific e-prints, locate science conference papers and proceedings, patents, and more.
- Science.gov New improved gateway to
U.S. government publications and web sites. 12 major science agencies are
collaborating on this project. They have recently added relevancy-ranked
order to the results of a search. It includes 30 databases and over 1700
web sites.
- Science Citation Index. Paper copy at Sci Index
Q1.A1S36. Holdings are 1965 to present. An excellent multidisciplinary science information source which leads you
to papers that cite a paper of interest, thus resulting in records for articles
that you may not find using traditional subject or keyword searching. To learn how
to use it, ask a Science and Engineering Center librarian. Online
access is available through
Web
of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present.
- ScienceDirect. FULL TEXT FOR UMAINE SUBSCRIBED JOURNAL TITLES ONLY (1800+). Online access to full text from 1995 for most titles. Sign up for automatic notification when new issues are published.
- Scirus. produced by Elsevier. Use for searching instead of ScienceDirect
interface. Use this Advanced search which provides many options for
full text searching and across a variety of databases.
- Spatial Odyssey. This database includes a
list of GIS journals
with information on which indexes cover each; searchable tables of contents for conference
proceedings and monographs in GIS, 1991-1997; and searchable full-text contents of
selected GIS conference proceedings (1994 only).
- SPIE
Abstract Search Service. Bibliographic database of publications of The
International Society for Optical Engineering.
-
SPIN:
Searchable Physics Information Notices. A bibliographic database
published by the American Institute of Physics. It is updated every 2 weeks
with coverage of all AIP journals and proceedings. Coverage also
includes journals from other societies including the Electrochemical
Society, Russian Academy of Sciences, etc.
- State of Maine. Department of Transportation. They have a
publications
page which has some recent reports in PDF format.
- Transportation Research
Board. Fogler owns almost all of their publications.
They publish several
technical reports series
that
disseminate important transportation research results. Use the TRB Publications
Index or the URSUS online catalog to locate reports on your topic. Technical report series include:
National Cooperative Highway Research Program.
Report (TE7.N25)
National
Cooperative Highway Research Program. Web Documents
Synthesis of Highway Practice (TE7.H51)
Synthesis of Transit Practice (TA1001.5.N381)
Transit Cooperative Research Program. Report (TA1001.5.N361)
Transit
Cooperative Research Program. Web Documents
. Transportation
Research Board. Special Report (TE1.N25)
- Transportation
Research Information Service
(TRIS). TRIS Online indexes over 420,000 records covering books,
journal articles, technical reports and other articles. Coverage includes
Federal, state, local and association publications and conference
proceedings from the 1960s to the present. There are links provided when the
full text document is available on the internet. Search the database
by author, title, subject, corporate author/publisher, journal/conference
title.
- URISA Proceedings
and Journal articles index. Coverage is 1987 - 2002. Keyword
search and table of contents available.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Databases and Software for
Geographic Information Systems.
- USA Information Systems. Provides free database of military, government and society technical
standards. Also a good resource for vendors of technical services,
products and parts.
-
Virtual
Technical Reports Center. Maintained by the University of
Maryland Libraries. Links to institutions worldwide that provide full text
and indexing to their reports, dissertations, reprints and preprints.
-
Water
Resources Abstracts. Index to international
scientific literature on all aspects of water resource issues. Includes
abstracts of journal articles, monographs, technical reports, books, and
conference proceedings. Updated quarterly.
Coverage is 1967 to the present.
- EurekAlert. Service of the
AAAS.
- GeoCommunity. Spatial News.
- LexisNexis
Academic. Worldwide coverage of newspapers, newsletters, and trade
journals with good coverage of environmental and water resources issues.
- Maine
Newsstand.
Indexes four Maine newspapers.
- MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.
- New York Times Article Archive. 1851− present. Full text of articles can be purchased online or use the microfilm collection in Fogler Library.
- News
on the Web - Archive. Provides links to U.S. and international
newspaper archives that are searchable. Also has links to TV and radio
broadcast archives.
- ProQuest
Newspapers. Full text of more than 500 U.S.
and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news
sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title. Maine papers
included: Bangor Daily News (1992+), Portland Press Herald (1995+), and
selected business coverage from Maine Times (1994-2002) and Central Maine
Morning Sentinel (1993-1997).
- SciCentral. Gateway to the best
scientific and engineerting research news sources
- Bartleby.com. Dictionaries,
thesaurus, quotations, etc.
- Dictionary
of Computing. 4th ed. Oxford Reference Online, 1997.
- GIS Dictionary. Association for Geographic
Information.
- Glossary
for the Geographer's Craft. Univ. of Colorado.
- Glossary of
GIS terms. Compiled by ESRI.
- Glossary of the Mapping Sciences. ASCE,
ACSM and ASPRS, 1994. (Sci Ref TA505.G57 1994)
- International GIS Dictionary. GeoInformation
International, 1995. (Sci Ref G70.212.M33 1995)
- Practical Handbook of Digital Mapping:
terms and concepts. CRC, 1994. (Sci Ref GA139.P73
1994)
- Practitioner's Guide to GIS terminology. Data West Research, 1994. (Sci Ref G70.2.P73 1994)
- Remote Sensing Data Book. Cambridge, 1999. (Sci Ref G70.4.R435 1999)
- Geoplace.com.
- GIS
WWW Resource List. University of Edinburgh and the Association for
Geographic Information maintain this site. Lists software, societies,
journals, map and statistical databases and corporate web sites.
- Access
Science. Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.
- CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae. 31st ed. CRC
Press, 2003. (Sci
Ref QA47.C17 2003)
- Encyclopedia of Environmetrics. Wiley,
2002. (Sci Ref GE45.S73E53 2002 vol. 1 - 4) Covers the use of
quantitative measurements in the analysis of environmental phenomena and
problems.
- Engineering Fundamentals (EFUNDA). Materials, Formulas, Mathematics, Processes and Design, Etc.
- EOS
Reference Handbook. NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, 1999.
- Free Tech
Books. Lists many books on programming languages, operating
systems, compilers, etc.
- Land development handbook : planning, engineering, and surveying. McGraw-Hill, 2002. (Sci Ref TA549.L29 2002)
- Land Surveyor Reference Manual. 3rd ed.
Professional Pubs, 2001. (Sci Ref TA551.H37 2001)
- NIST/SEMATECH
e-Handbook of Statistical Methods. Workbook on statistical methods
for scientists and engineers
- Remote Sensing Data Book. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999. (Sci
Ref G70.4.R435 1999)
- Standard Handbook of Environmental Science,
Health and Technology. McGraw-Hill, 2000. (Sci Ref GE123.S73 2000)
- Surveying Handbook. 2nd ed. Chapman & Hall, 1995. (Sci Ref TA555.S87 1995)
-
Canadian Geographic Atlas Online.
- Cartographic
Boundary Files. From the U.S. Census Bureau. Files from the
2000 census containing congressional districts, school districts, urban
areas, etc. Files are for use with GIS systems.
- EarthRef Digital Archive
(ERDA) contains any type of digital data object associated with the
Earth Sciences.
- Earth Resources Observations and
Science (EROS)
- FedStats. Gateway to
statistics from over 100 U.S. federal agencies.
- Flood Hazard Mapping. Produced for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. (FEMA)
- GeoCommunity.org. Presents a
wide variety of information for the GIS professional. GIS
Data Depot.
- GeoData.gov. Federal, state
and local geographic data. Provided through the cooperative program
called Geospatial One-Stop. Managed by the Dept. of Interior.
- GEO Data Portal. Produced
by the United Nations Environment Programme. (UNEP) Authoritative
source for data sets used by UNEP in their reports.
- GEODE
(Geo-Data Explorer)
is a free service offered by the U.S. Geological
Survey (USGS)
It provides digital geographically referenced data to the desktop
computers of any user. Great resource for geo-spatial data.
- Geography
Network. Resource for data, maps and software.
- GEOID:
Geoscience Information Databases, Cornell University. Extensive
data available on the Middle East, North Africa, and the USA regions.
- Geomatics
Canada. Provides data and the National Atlas of Canada.
- GIS
Data Depot.
- GIS Internet Resources. Produced and maintained by the Topographic Engineering Center.
- GIS Lounge. Links to huge
data library - including worldwide resources,
industry news, careers, software, etc.
- GIS Monitor: Data
Directory .
- GIS Portal. Harvard Design &
Mapping
- Landscan. Landscan data comprise a worldwide population database compiled on a 30" X
30" latitude/longitude grid. Free registration is required.
- Maine Environmental
Monitoring and Assessment Program Index. (MEMAP). Listing of
programs that monitor and assess Maine's environment.
- National Elevation Data Set.
- National Environmental Satellite,
Data and Information Service. (NOAA) Their mission is to provide
global environmental data resources. Links to data are made available
for climatic, coastal, geophysical and environmental resources
- National Geodetic Survey. NOAA.
- National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse. Sponsored by the Federal Geographic Data
Committee.
- National Snow and Ice Data Center. National
information and referral center in support of polar and cryospheric research.
They archive and distribute digital and analog snow and ice data.
- National
Transportation Library.
- National Virtual Data System. NOAA
- PANGAEA is a
public data library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing geocoded
data with special emphasis on environmental, marine and geological research.
- Public Educational
Access to Environmental Information in Maine. (PEARL). Database of environmental data on Maine lakes.
- Satellite Imagery Maps. SAT 10 Maine. Located
in Fogler Gov. Docs. G3731.A4
2002 .D45. CD-ROM
- TIGER,
TIGER/line and related products. U.S. Census Bureau. TIGER(
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing
System)
- Topo USA Topographic maps from DeLorme, 2002. Located in Fogler Gov Docs. DVDROM
G1201.C2 T66 2002.
- Transtats. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. U.S. Department of Transportation.
- United
Kingdom National Data Services.
- U.S. Bureau of Land
Management. Geospatial
Data Clearinghouse.
- U.S. Census Bureau. Maps
and Cartographic Products.
- U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. Geographic
Information Systems.
- U.S. Geological Survey.
Geography Home Page. Products including
digital
data, maps, and software.
- U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Renewable
Resource Data Center. Maps and GIS data.
- Center for Spatially Integrated Social
Science. Spatial
resources for the social sciences. This cite contains
Literature Search of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences.
- ESRI. GIS and Mapping
Software. Tutorials and conference proceedings, book lists, etc.
- ESRI Virtual Campus. GIS Education and
Training on the Web.
- Festival of Maps. List of websites offering fun and games with maps.
- GENIE: Grid ENabled Integrated
Earth system model.
- GeoCommunity.org. Presents a
wide variety of information for the GIS professional. GIS
Data Depot.
- Geography
Network. Resource for data, maps and software.
- GEOPlace.com. Career
center, company directory, news center, product reviews, etc.
- GEOSearch.com. GIS jobs and
salary survey.
- GIS.com. Tutorials, news and
events, software and internet resources.
- GIS and Remote Sensing
Sites.
- GIS Certification Institute.
- GIS Development. Glossary, online conference proceedings, career leads, company profiles,
tutorials, etc.
- GIS
Dictionary. A service of the Association for
Geographic Information and the Department of Geography at the University of Edinburgh.
- GIS for Everyone. Introduction to GIS by ESRI. Has software and data to download.
- GIS Internet Resources. Produced and maintained by the Topographic Engineering Center.
- GIS Lounge. Links to huge
data library - including worldwide resources,
industry news, careers, software, etc.
- GIS Monitor: The ultimate map and GIS
directory
- GIS Portal. Jobs,
directories of companies and government agencies, college and univerisity
listing, software and web resources, etc.
- GIS Tutorials. Maintained by the USGS.
- GIS WWW Resource List. Compiled by the University of Edinburgh. They also compile the GIS
FTP Resource List.
- Land Surveyor Reference Page. A collection of links to Web sites and full-text articles, including links to all state
surveyor associations and licensing boards.
- MIT
Open Course Ware.
- NCGIA Core Curriculum in
GISceince.
- Remote Sensing and
Image Analysis. This is a textbook created by faculty at the
University of California, Berkeley. Also contains a list of remote
sensing web sites.
- Remote
Sensing Tutorials. Produced by the Univ. of Arizona.
- Terrafly. Web-based service that allows users to "fly over" a city or
particular address. These are satellite images from the USGS.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
- Engineering Education Service Center. Brings together a directory of engineering schools, competitions, scholarships, events, etc.
- GIS Development. Glossary, online conference proceedings, career leads, company profiles,
tutorials, etc
- GIS Tutorials. Maintained by the USGS.
- Mathtools.net. Collection of tutorials, books, and web sites on programming languages
including MATLAB, C, C++, JAVA, Visual Basic, etc. Full text tutorials
are extensive.
- MIT
Open Course Ware.
- National Science Digital Library. A digital library of
exemplary resource collections and services, organized in
support of science education at all levels.
- Remote
Sensing Tutorials. Produced by the Univ. of Arizona.
- Remote Sensing Tutorial. Produced by NASA
- Technical
Writing: Online textbook.
- Writing Center. University of Maine.
- Writing Laboratory. Purdue
University.
- ArcExlporer. Free software from ESRI over the internet that allows basic GIS
functions. Good way to publish your data.
- Delorme Mapping. Mapping
software, GPS, paper maps, GIS data sets, etc.
- ESRI: GIS and mapping software.
- GeoCommunity. GIS Software.
- GIS Lounge. Free GIS data viewers.
- GIS Portal. Jobs,
directories of companies and government agencies, college and univerisity
listing, software and web resources, etc.
- GIS Software. Maintained by G. DuBois.
- GRASS (Geographic Resources
Analysis Support System) GIS Homepage. Includes downloadable data sets for GIS. This is free software with raster,
topological vector, image processing, and graphics production functionality
that operates on various
platforms.
- MDA Federal Inc. (formerly
EarthSat)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Databases and Software for
Geographic Information Systems.
United States
Maine
Europe
Canada
CODES OF ETHICS
- Financial Aid. Portal to
resources for scholarships, loans, savings programs, military aid, etc.
- Graduate
Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans. Grants for Individuals.
- MentorNet. The E-Mentoring Network for
Diversity in Engineering and Science. Members get one-on-one
encouragement and advice, online topic-based discussion groups, and a resume
database for job seekers.
- National Academy of Sciences. Careers
in Science and Engineering: A Student Planning Guide to Grad School and
Beyond.
- National Academy of Sciences. Enhancing
the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers.
- Nationally Coveted
Scholarships, Fellowships and Postdoctoral Awards. Searchable
database.
- Peterson's Guide to
Graduate Programs. Also print copy at Fogler Reserve Desk. ORO Reference L901.A549. Volume 4: Physical sciences, mathematics, etc., Volume 5: engineering and applied sciences.
Web sites that describe the engineering profession, link to college and university web sites, and that provide guidance on choosing a major field of
study.
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