Biosphere Data Project

Creating or searching for georeferenced information is often integral to environmental data work. Working with georeferenced datasets in this way is complex, and the tools are far from seamless at this point, but GIS tools may be critical in providing comprehensible access to integrated environmental information.

The Species Biodiversity Workshop
A data visualization project involving the University of Kansas and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that integrates data access, analysis and visualization using CGI Perl scripts in a frame-based web application to allow researchers to perform a variety of functions on biodiversity data.

Biodiversity WorldMap Project
Software tools for exploring geographical patterns in diversity, rarity and conservation priorities from large biological datasets. A research project of the London Natural History Museum's Biogeography & Conservation Lab. Demo software available for download. Customizable solutions can be developed for collaboration with natural resource managers, conservation planners and biodiversity specialists and others who:

Wireless Developer Network
People who are interested in georeferenced environmental data may have some interest in wireless applications. This is reported to be the best online resource in this area.

More Accurate GPS
The Global Positioning System is now offering higher levels of accuracy to all users.

Alexandria Digital Library Project
This is the current, experimental web interface for this project to create a digital library of georeferenced information. The main site is here. They also have a Gazetteer Server (which requires a recent generation browser).

ARCview
This software is the most widely used for GIS applications

Stuff for ArcView users
Resource site maintained by Pierssen Publishing

Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
This scholarly, collaborative, worldwide project is doing for cultural and historical study something very much like what this Biosphere site aspires to do for environmental study, with a focus on the creation of electronic atlases as a unifying interface. "An international research project aimed at the creation of distributed, spatially referenced, GIS-style cultural databases which can be accessed across the Internet"

Mapping Information from the United States Geological Survey
News, products, programs, data, services and standards.

Cartographic Communication
An educational resource from the University of Texas