ABSTRACT: Google Maps and Google Earth have put much of the functionality of Geographic Information Systems in the hands of the end users. Maritime users are just beginning to understand the power of map mashups that bring together diverse datasets to help mariners and those who manage the waterways to better understand the uses, risks, and impacts of vessel traffic on our nation’s waterways. I will present a number of data types ranging from raster images of ocean flow modeling, to vessel traffic over time captured by the marine Automatic Identification System, to real time right whale notices for  vessels approaching Boston Harbor.

Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (FH) University of Applied Sciences Forschungsbericht 2007

Projektleiter: Prof. Dr.-Ing. F. Schwarzbach
Projektlaufzeit: ab 12/2007
Kooperationspartner: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Auftraggeber/Förderer: Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus /S.111

Case Western Reserve University

Microscope to Macroscope- Using GIS to Understand Environmental Complexity in Disease Causation by Charles H. King, MD/ April 3, 2008 Kelvin Smith Library

GRASS GIS Seminar
GRASS: Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
Scope: Learn the use of Free Software GIS
PART I: Introduction to GRASS and QGIS
PART II: Practical examples

Grass
Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
Commonly referred to as GRASS, this is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. GRASS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. GRASS is official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.

PostGis
PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS “spatially enables” the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRI’s SDE or Oracle’s Spatial extension. PostGIS follows the OpenGIS “Simple Features Specification for SQL” and has been certified as compliant with the “Types and Functions”