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GIS & Data Lab

Campus Access to Software and Hardware

• KU staff and faculty can purchase GIS software at lower cost through the KU ESRI Site License.
• You can acquire statistical packages such as SAS and SPSS for your computer.

Open Source and Freeware for Statistics

• PSPP- open source program for statistical analysis of sampled data
• R- open source program for statistical computing and graphics

Open Source and Freeware for GIS (What is it?)

• ajmGeocode PE- geocode (one address at a time)
• ArcExplorer- view and query shapefiles and coverages- ESRI
• ArcReader- use published map files (.pmf)- ESRI
• Christine GIS- view vector data and merge tables with shapes
• Circuitscape- desktop software that uses circuit theory to predict connectivity for gene flow and animal movement- The Nature Conservancy
• CommonGIS- web-based- Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
• CrimeStat- spatial statistics application for crime analysis- Ned Levine
• DIVA-GIS- desktop software particularly useful for mapping and analyzing biodiversity data
• Forestry GIS (fGIS)- desktop software for shapefile editing, digitizing and performing queries; designed for natural resource managers who are not GIS specialists
• FRAGSTATS- U Mass Landscape Ecology Program
• GeoDa- combines statistical graphics and map data- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• GIS-Knoppix- bootable Linux CD with pre-installed GIS software- Sourcepole
• Google Earth- desktop (web-dependent) mapping software for satellite imagery, 3D buildings, etc.
• GRASS- desktop application
• gvSIG- desktop application
• ILWIS- desktop application for remote sensing and GIS
• IrfanView- view and convert image files- Irfan Skiljan
• JUMP- view and process data
• MapServer- build internet mapping applications- TerraSIP project
• MapWindow GIS- desktop application
• OpenEV- desktop application for viewing and analysing raster and vector data
• OpenLayers- display map data in web browsers
• Quantum GIS- desktop application with GRASS plug-in
• SAGA GIS- creation and analysis of raster data
• ScanMagic- view, analyze and process remote sensing data
• ScapeToad- desktop software for building cartograms
• uDig- desktop application
• USGS Digital Data Viewer-dlgv32 Pro
• WinTopo Raster to Vector Converter- heads-up digitizing