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1. Minerva - Open-Source Program for Viewing Geospatial Data [Minerva]
Minerva is an open-source program for viewing geospatial data that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It unifies standard GIS capabilities with high-performance, 3D visualization. Minerva's primary ...

2. GIS Toolkit [GIS_toolkit]
The GIS Toolkit is a free java based mapping toolkit, it has the ability to read geographical data from a variety of data sources and display that information to the user. It can directly ...

3. CommunityViz: GIS Software for Planning and Resource Management [CommunityViz]
CommunityViz is an advanced GIS extension to ArcGIS designed to help people visualize, analyze and communicate about important land-use decisions. CommunityViz includes two complementary components, ...

4. Weather Downloader - A Tool for Downloading Hydrologic Data into Geographic Information Systems [CUAHSI_WEATHER_DOWNLOADER]
The internet explosion has given rise to a plethora of national hydrologic observation repositories such as USGS National Water Information System (NWIS), AmeriFlux, Daymet, etc. Researchers are ...

5. HAZUS99, the Earthquake Loss Estimation Program [01-HAZUS-99]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released the new HAZUS99, the natural hazard loss estimation methodology software program. HAZUS99 is used for earthquake-related mitigation, emergency ...

6. The Land Use Portfolio Model [USGS_LUPM]
Natural hazards threaten public safety and economic health nationwide. As people increasingly move to locations that are vulnerable to natural hazards, financial losses from natural hazard events ...

7. BGS·SIGMAmobile - Digital Field Data Capture System [BGS_SIGMAmobile]
BGS?SIGMAmobile 2010 is the 2nd release of the BGS digital field data capture system designed to run on rugged tablet PCs with integrated GPS units. BGS?SIGMAmobile 2010 consists of heavily customised ...

8. GeoTools Open Source Java GIS Toolkit [GEOTOOLS]
Geotools is an open source Java GIS toolkit for developing standards compliant solutions. It provides an implementation of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications as they are developed. Geotools ...

9. The Earth Observing System, Geographic Information Systems (EOSGIS) Data Translator Development Project [eosgis_data_trans-00]
The objective of this project is to develop generalized two-way data format translators (EOSGIS) between HDF-EOS and ARC/INFO format. The EOSGIS translators will be able to translate HDF-EOS ...

10. GIS interface to Penn State Integrated Hydrologic Model [PIHMgis]
Physically-based fully-distributed hydrologic models try to simulate hydrologic state variables in space and time while using information regarding heterogeneity in climate, land use, topography and ...

11. gvSIG Tool for Managing Geographic Information [gvSIG]
gvSIG is a tool oriented to manage geographic information. It is characterized by a user-friendly interface, with a quick access to the most usual raster and vector formats. In the same view it includes ...

12. MOIST - Multidisciplinary Oceanic Information SysTem [ingv-moist]
The scientific data management has recently become a big challenge in terms of storage capacity and data access in many disciplinary sectors. Analyse a large amount of data is considered necessary ...

13. A GIS Based Small Area Urbanization Forecasting Model [SAFGIS]
Reliable forecasts of population growth and housing development at the small area level are indispensable to informed land use planning and the timely provision of physical infrastructure and human ...

14. Accessibility Analyst: A Simple and Flexible GIS Tool for Deriving Accessibility Models [CIAT_ACCESS]
The Accessibility Analyst tool has been programmed at CIAT in order to automate the process of creating accessibility surfaces. In the past these surfaces had to be laboriously created step by step ...

15. Indicators of Rural Sustainability [CIAT_INDICATORS]
Users of the Indicators of Rural Sustainability CD-ROM, a geographical information tool, can select, visualize, and analyze the sustainability indices and indicators developed for Central America. ...

16. Open OceanMap - An open implementation of Ocean Communities 3E Analysis Network [ECOTRUST_OOM]
Open OceanMap is a data collection tool used to effectively collect local expert knowledge in support of marine conservation planning processes. Data collected from resource users like commercial ...

17. Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES): A GIS Application for Assessing, Mapping, and Quantifying the Social Values of Ecosystem Services [USGS_SolVES]
In response to the need for incorporating quantified and spatially explicit measures of social values into ecosystem services assessments, the Rocky Mountain Geographic Science Center (RMGSC), in ...

18. UrbanSim - Software-based Simulation System for Supporting Planning and Analysis of Urban Development [UrbanSim]
UrbanSim is a software-based system designed to be used for integrated planning and analysis of urban development, incorporating the interactions between land use, transportation, and public policy. ...

19. Revision and Product Generation Software [USGS_REVPG]
RevPG (Revision and Product Generation) is a collection of ARC/INFO Arc Macro Language (AML) programs, C routines, shell scripts, and interface menus. This software was developed by the U.S. Geological ...

20. The GIS Weasel - An Interface for the Development of Spatial Parameters for Physical Process Modeling [USGS_GIS_WEASEL]
The GIS Weasel is a map and Graphical User Interface (GUI) driven tool that has been developed as an aid to modelers in the delineation, characterization, and parameterization of Modeling ...

21. Capaware - An Open Source 3D Geographical Multi Layer Framework [Capaware]
Capaware is a framework for developing 3D multilayer geographical worlds.So powerful as it allows execution of applications directly over it, offers a wide range of applications. To have a quick composition ...

22. Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools [Whitebox]
The Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools (GAT) project is an exciting open-source GIS project. Whitbox is as much a philosophical approach to geomatics as it is a GIS/Remote Sensing package. This philosophy ...

23. Conservation Land-Use Zoning Software [CLUZ]
The Conservation Land-Use Zoning Software (CLUZ) is an ArcView GIS interface that allows users to design protected area networks and conservation landscapes. It can be used for on-screen planning ...

24. Deegree [Deegree-JaGo]
(Summary adapted from JaGo web pages.) Deegree (formally JaGo) is a free software initiative founded by the GIS and Remote Sensing unit of the Department of Geography, University of Bonn, and lat/lon. ...

25. Environment Explorer [environmentexplorer]
The Environment Explorer (LOV) is a spatial, dynamic model, in which land use and the effects on social, economic and ecological indicators are modeled in an integrated way. Its primary goal is to ...

26. FlamMap: A Fire Behavior Mapping and Analysis Program [FlamMap]
FlamMap is a fire behavior mapping and analysis program that computes potential fire behavior characteristics (spread rate, flame length, fireline intensity, etc.) over an entire FARSITE landscape ...

27. Integrated Land and Water Information System (ILWIS) [ITC_ILWIS]
The Integrated Land and Water Information System (ILWIS) integrates image, vector and thematic data in one unique and powerful package on the desktop. ILWIS delivers a wide range of features including ...

28. My World GIS: A Geographic Information System for Learners [MyWorld_GIS]
My World is being developed at Northwestern University as part of a research program in the adaptation of expert data visualization and analysis tools to support inquiry-based learning. It is a Geographic ...

29. SERVIR-Viz 3-D Visualization Tool [SERVIR_VIZ3D]   PARENT SERF
SERVIR-Viz is a customized version of NASA's free, open-source, web-enabled, 3D earth exploration tool known as WorldWind. As with other mapping browsers such as Google Earth, SERVIR-Viz allows users ...

30. mezoGIS: A GIS Application and Graphical Interface To Query and Analyze Spatial Data [mezoGIS]
mezoGIS is a GIS application, a graphical interface to query and analyse spatial data. mezoGIS does not store or compute data directly, but operates external PostGIS databases. The goal of mezoGIS ...

31. OrbisGIS - A GIS Application Dedicated to Scientific Spatial Simulation [OrbisGIS]
OrbisGIS is a Geographical Information System (GIS) dedicate to the scientific modeling and simulation. OrbisGIS is develop at IRSTV (Research Institute on Urban Sciences and Technics, CNRS/FR-2488), ...

32. Spatial Analysis and Modeling Tool (SAMT) [SAMT]
The Spatial Analysis and Modeling Tool (SAMT) is designed to combine landscape modeling with GIS-data (grids). The main focus is the integration of fuzzy-models and spatial simulation. Features of ...

33. Nautical Chart Viewer for ArcView 3.x, ArcGIS 8 and Imagine 8 [NOAA_Chart_Viewer]
NOAA's navigational charts provide a useful data layer for ocean and coastal geographic information system (GIS) projects, but these charts use a digital format (BSB) that is not widely supported ...

34. LIDAR Data Handler: A NOAA Coastal Services Center ArcView or ArcMap Extension [NOAA_lidar_handler]
The LIDAR Data Handler is an extension to ArcView or ArcMap designed to help the coastal resource management community manipulate its Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) data within a Geographic Information ...

35. PRUNE: An application for viewing, editing and converting coordinate data from GPS systems [PRUNE]
Prune is an application for viewing, editing and converting coordinate data from GPS systems. Basically it's a tool to let you play with your GPS data after you get home from your trip. It can load ...

36. GeoWind - Java Virtual Globe [GeoWind]
GeoWind is an open source GIS platform that integrates OGC as implemented in GeoTools within NASA's WorldWind.The vision of this effort is the creation of an open geospatial system that enables the ...

37. QuakeSim - Simulation and Analysis Tool for Studying the Physics of Earthquakes [NASA_JPL_quakesim]   CHILD SERFs
In order to develop a solid Earth science framework for understanding and studying active tectonic and earthquake processes, we are developing simulation and analysis tools to study the physics of ...

38. Refuge GAP Decision Support Tool [WYGISC_REFUGE_GAP]
The Refuge GAP Decision Support Tool is designed to mirror the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Land Acquisition Priority System for significant community biodiversity targets. This is a four-step ...

39. FlowMap - Software Application Designed to Analyze and Display Flow Data [FLOMAP]
Flowmap is a software package dedicated to analyzing and displaying interaction or flow data. This type of data is special in the sense that there are two different geographic locations connected ...

40. Quantum GIS [QGIS]
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation ...

41. DNR Garmin Extension for ArcView [DNR_GARMIN]
The DNR Garmin Extension for ArcView was built to provide users the ability to directly transfer data between Garmin GPS handheld receivers and various GIS software packages. Using this extension ...

42. Impervious Surface Analysis Tool (ISAT) [NOAA_ISAT]
The Impervious Surface Analysis Tool (ISAT), which is available as a geographic information system extension, is used to calculate the percentage of impervious surface area within user-selected geographic ...

43. Nonpoint Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool (N-SPECT) [NOAA_N-SPECT]
Nonpoint Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool (N-SPECT) is a complex yet user-friendly geographic information system (GIS) extension that helps coastal managers and local decision makers predict ...

44. Open Source Software Image Map (OSSIM) [OSSIM]
OSSIM (Open Source Software Image Map) is a set of tools for performing image processing operations on raster-based geospatial data. It will leverage existing algorithms/tools/packages from the open ...

45. PCRaster = A dynamic modeling free software for distributed simulation models in ecology, hydrology, and geography. [PC_Raster]
PCRaster is a dynamic Modeling system for distributed simulation models. The main applications of PCRaster are found in environmental Modeling: geography, hydrology, ecology to name a few. Examples ...

46. CITYgreen- GIS Software Program Used for Mapping, Measuring, and Analyzing Urban Ecosystems [CITYgreen]
CITYgreen is a Geographic Information System (GIS) software program used for mapping, measuring, and analyzing urban ecosystems. The program considers trees and other natural resources in the community ...

47. StarSpan: A Tool for Fast Selective Pixel Extraction from Remotely Sensed Data [StarSpan]
StarSpan is designed to bridge the raster and vector worlds of spatial analysis using fast algorithms for pixel level extraction from geometry features (points, lines, polygons). StarSpan generates ...

48. ILWIS: Free Geographic Information System with Spatial Analyst Modules [ILWIS_3.4]
ILWIS Open integrates image, vector and thematic data in one unique and powerful desktop package. It delivers a wide range of feautures including import/export, digitizing, editing, analysis and display ...

49. Climate Mapper Plug-in for SERVIR-Viz [SERVIR_VIZ3D_CMP]   PARENT SERF
The Climate Mapper, developed by IAGT for SERVIR-Viz, project designers access to historical weather data as well as projections of climate change. Users can zoom into specific areas and view summarized ...

50. International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) Plug-in for SERVIR-Viz [SERVIR_VIZ3D_IRI]   PARENT SERF
Scientists at the Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology (IAGT) and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) developed a plug-in for SERVIR-Viz that allows ...

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