Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
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[edit] Getting ArcGIS
The ArcGIS site license allows for ArcGIS to be loaded on any University-owned machine. For installation of the full version, including ArcInfo, on a campus computer utilized by a professor, AU employee, graduate student doing research, contact your departmental IT coordinator to do the installation.
For undergraduates, ArcGIS should be loaded on all OIT lab machines. Professors may request 1-year student editions for their classes from ESRI. Please contact either Barbara Bishop or Christopher Mixon for the ordering information. For undergraduates not in a GIS class there are a limited number of student edition copies available through the AU Libraries' Digital Resource Lab.
[edit] ESRI Online Courses
There are "free" online courses available through the ESRI Virtual Campus. For a listing and description of these courses to the catalog. Once you have selected your course e-mail Barbara Bishop for the course code(s).
[edit] Library Resources
Subject Search: Geographic Information Systems
- Lists books and other resources owned by AU Libraries.
- This library catalog search lists the CD-ROMS owned by the AU Libraries of topographic maps produced by the U.S. Geological Survey but published by National Geographic Maps.
Historical United States County Boundary Files 1790-1990
- "Contains ArcView shapefile format county boundary files for the contiguous United States from each decade from 1790 through 1990 (also 1999). Files include county and state names as well as FIPS identification numbers and county area estimates. Territories enumerated by the U.S. Census are also included"
[edit] Alabama Images and Data
- Includes satellite and aerial imagery, TIGER Files, land cover data and digital elevation models.
Alabama Water Quality Information System
- Includes topos, DOQQ's, land use and land cover.
[edit] Auburn Images and Data
Alabama View Aster City Scenes
- Includes Auburn/Opelika area from 2001 and 2002
- For reference purposes only, data cannot be downloaded from site but most is available through the Libraries' Digital Resource Lab
- For reference purposes only, data cannot be downloaded from site. Works with IE, and you must download the viewer.
Non-Web Based
- RBD Libraries has city data and aerials from 2004 available through the Digital Resource Lab and b/w aerials from 1997 on CD located at the first floor Service Desk.
[edit] Other Resources
- Integrates all Census Bureau geographic products
Seamless Data Distribution System
- "The Seamless Data Distribution System (SDDS) is the ultimate location to explore and retrieve data. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the EROS Data Center (EDC) are committed to providing access to geospatial data through The National Map. An approach is to provide free downloads of national base layers, as well as other geospatial data layers. These layers are divided into framework categories."