General

• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/index.html - USGS
• Gap Analysis Program http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/gap/ - (USGS - BRD)
• Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/abbrev.html
• Canadian geographic names http://GeoNames.NRCan.gc.ca/english/Home.html
• US Geographic Names Information System - http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html - United States and Territories
• The Spatial Odyssey GIS Literature Database - http://www.odyssey.maine.edu/gisweb - provides information on how to access the table of contents of GIS journals or their abstracts through commercial databases, provides listings of the contents of many GIS conference proceedings and published collections of articles, and provides access to the full text of selected GIS conference proceedings articles.
• Spatial Data Transfer Standard - http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/ - useful for transferring spatial data between dissimilar computer systems.

GIS Data Sources

• GIS Data Depot - http://www.gisdatadepot.com/catalog/ - search for free GIS data.
• Geogratis - http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/frames.html - free data for Canada.
• National Hydrography Dataset - http://nhd.usgs.gov/   - USGS incorporated Digital Line Graph (DLG) hydrography data with reach-related information from the EPA Reach File Version 3 (RF3).
• National Wetland Inventory - http://www.nwi.fws.gov/ - commonly-used wetlands data from USFWS.
• Landcover of the US - http://landcover.usgs.gov/index.html - includes MRLC/National Land Cover Database (NLCD).
• http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html -USGS digital data
• Geographic Information Systems & Spatial Data - http://www.fws.gov/data/gishome.html - USFWS
• US Census TIGER data - http://tiger.census.gov/
• SPOT Image Corp. - http://www.spot.com/
• Earthsat - http://www.earthsat.com/
• http://www.spaceimage.com/ - Space Imaging (EOSAT) - Landsat and IRS distributor
• Guide To Mostly On-line And Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data - http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/hunt/index.html - by Stephan Pollard
• Maps and References - http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html - by the University of Iowa's Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research
• Digital imagery - http://www.landsat.com/ - LANDSAT TM, LANDSAT 7 imagery and digital orthophotos for purchase
  

Biotelemetry Resources  - http://www.biotelem.org: includes

• information on conferences and meetings
• software and analyses
• equipment manufacturer and consultant directories
• notes on telemetry methods
• online papers and references
• links to other related sites

• Forum on Wildlife Telemetry - http://www.npwrc.gov serves the complete abstracts from the forum, held in Snowmass, Colorado, 21-23 Sept. 1997.
• Radio Telemetry Equipment Suppliers: listing of companies and contact information - http://detritus.inhs.uiuc.edu/wes/equipment_suppliers.html
• Advanced Telemetry Systems - http://www.atstrack.com
• ARGOS - Global Data Telemetry and Geo-positioning Services - http://www.argosinc.com
• Blue Sky Telemetry, Scotland - http://www.blueskytelemetry.co.uk/
  
• Environmental Studies, Germany - GPS collars - http://www.environmental-studies.de
  
• Global Tracking Systems - http://www.gtstrack.com
• Holohil Ltd. - http://www.holohil.com/
• Lotek Marine Technologies Inc. - http://www.lotek.com/lotek/n-a.htm
• Marshall Radio - http://www.marshallradio.com
  
• Mini-mitter Co., Inc. - http://fairway.ecn.purdue.edu/~ieeeembs/companies/minimitter.html
• Sonotronics - http://www.media-masters.com/sonotronics
• Televilt - http://www.televilt.se
• Telonics - http://www.telonics.com/
• Wildlife Track Inc.  - http://www.wildlifetrack.com
  

Software

• Colorado Coop Wildlife Research Unit: Software developed by Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology and Colorado Coop. Fish and Wildlife Unit, and Colorado State University - http://www.cnr.colostate.edu/~gwhite/software.html

• Illinois Natural History Survey: Wildlife Ecology Software Server - http://nhsbig.inhs.uiuc.edu/

• Resource Selection for Windows (RSW): Program for analyzing preferences or avoidances from a habitat/cover types study, [Fred Leban - fleban@uidaho.edu, University of Idaho] http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/envis/resdoc1120.html

• ERDAS - remote sensing software; maker of Imagine - http://www.erdas.com/
• Ermapper - remote sensing software - http://www.ermapper.com
• ESRI - maker of ArcInfo, ArcView, ArcIMS and ArcGIS - http://www.esri.com/base/index.html
• GRASS - free GIS software - http://www.cecer.army.mil/grass/GRASS.main.html
• PCI - remote sensing software - http://www.pci.on.ca/
• Microimages, Inc. - remote sensing software, maker of TNT-MIPS - http://tnt.microimages.com/

• Home Range ArcView Extension (http://blue.lakeheadu.ca/hre/)

• Spatial Tools ArcView Extension - extends Spatial Analyst Extension capabilities http://www.absc.usgs.gov/glba/gistools/index.htm

• Oceanographic Analyst ArcView Extension - 3-D and 4-D analysis and display of volumetric and time series oceanographic data http://www.absc.usgs.gov/glba/gistools/index.htm

• Analyses of animal movements: http://www.absc.usgs.gov/glba/gistools/index.htm

• Proceedings of "Tracking Animals with GPS" conference at the Macaulay Institute, 2001 http://www.mluri.sari.ac.uk/gps

• Sam Wormley's GPS Resources - a compendium of resources  http://www.cnde.iastate.edu/staff/swormley/gps/gps.html
  
• Corvallis Micro Technology (CMT) - http://www.cmtinc.com/
• Garmin - http://www.garmin.com
• GPS Home - Garmin systems and accessories http://www.gps-home.com/
  
• GPS World - http://www.gpsworld.com/
• Magellan - http://www.detection.com/magellan/
• Trimble - http://www.trimble.com/index.htm

Maintained by the International Association for Landscape Ecology, US Regional Association: http://www.usiale.org/rellinks.htm#academic (check both Research Programs and Academic Programs)

MAGAZINES




• GIS World - General interest GIS articles. (970) 223-4848
• GeoInfo Systems - General interest GIS articles. (800) 949-6525
• Earth Observation - Remote sensing and GIS articles. (303) 690-2242
• GPS World - General interest GPS articles. (800) 346-0085, ext. 363
• Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing - General interest GIS articles (301) 493-0290

last updated June 2005 sm