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GIS & Data Lab

Campus Access to Software and Hardware

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
Last modified: Friday July 24 2009