GIS : GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Subject Guides: Geography & Environmental Science
Geography - Select an Internet Category... ------------------------------------------- Databases Web Reference Sites People & Organisations Online Guides Internet Gateway (other subjects)
Teaching Online tutorials Free ebooks
GIS datasets and online viewers
New Zealand data online New Zealand data via University of Auckland Library New Zealand data held by the School of Environment Worldwide online Imagery - satellite, remotely sensed and aerial photography Bathymetry
New Zealand data online New Zealand data via University of Auckland Library New Zealand data held by the School of Environment
Worldwide online
Imagery - satellite, remotely sensed and aerial photography
Bathymetry
Open source GIS software Free GIS software (not all open source)
GIS serials in the University of Auckland LibraryGIS dictionaries, encyclopedias, and bibliographies
GIS theses presented at the University of Auckland
GIS at New Zealand universities GIS at overseas universities
Websites
Teaching The School of Environment's Spatial Analysis Facility provides a University focus for expertise in Geographic Information Systems, including Remote Sensing. For further information contact the Director of the SAF, Professor Pip Forer.
GIS is taught at the School of Environment. The following papers are offered:
Online Tutorials
ArcGIS Online Experiment with a simple online GIS and make your own maps using Make a Map and ArcGIS explorer using free online maps and data Getting started with GIS (for ArcGIS 10) A free 9 hour online course for beginners, from ArcGIS vendors ESRI This course provides a foundation for understanding what a geographic information system is and the possibilities it offers for discovering patterns, relationships, and trends. You will learn how GIS maps are different from other types of paper and digital maps, what makes the data used in a GIS unique, and how to use GIS software to obtain information and create meaningful maps. In interactive exercises and activities throughout the course, you will work with ArcGIS software and see how a GIS supports problem solving in many different contexts. EOEdu Introduction to remote sensing ESRI training for subscribers Accessible to staff and students of University of Auckland. Identify courses from ESRI training, then request relevant courses access codes from Graeme Glen. Go to the training website, create a training account and use the codes supplied to access the relevant courses. Geographic Information Systems Super-basic explanation of GIS from United States Geological Survey VerySpatial podcasts Weekly podcasts on GIS topics Open Web Mapping Free online course from Penn State Spatial Humanities A project of the Institute for Enabling Geospatial Research, hosted by University of Virginia Library. Mapping using GIS for the humanities - includes tutorials
ArcGIS Online Experiment with a simple online GIS and make your own maps using Make a Map and ArcGIS explorer using free online maps and data
Getting started with GIS (for ArcGIS 10) A free 9 hour online course for beginners, from ArcGIS vendors ESRI This course provides a foundation for understanding what a geographic information system is and the possibilities it offers for discovering patterns, relationships, and trends. You will learn how GIS maps are different from other types of paper and digital maps, what makes the data used in a GIS unique, and how to use GIS software to obtain information and create meaningful maps. In interactive exercises and activities throughout the course, you will work with ArcGIS software and see how a GIS supports problem solving in many different contexts.
EOEdu Introduction to remote sensing
ESRI training for subscribers Accessible to staff and students of University of Auckland. Identify courses from ESRI training, then request relevant courses access codes from Graeme Glen. Go to the training website, create a training account and use the codes supplied to access the relevant courses.
Geographic Information Systems Super-basic explanation of GIS from United States Geological Survey
VerySpatial podcasts Weekly podcasts on GIS topics
Open Web Mapping Free online course from Penn State
Spatial Humanities A project of the Institute for Enabling Geospatial Research, hosted by University of Virginia Library. Mapping using GIS for the humanities - includes tutorials
Free ebooks
DiBiase, D. [last modified 2011]. Nature of geographic information : an open geospatial textbook. Pennsylvania State University (used for GEOG210) ESRI ebooks - free National Academies Press The National Academies Press - the US publisher for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council - is offering all of its books free in PDF format. The books cover a range of science topics, including hundreds of geospatial books.
DiBiase, D. [last modified 2011]. Nature of geographic information : an open geospatial textbook. Pennsylvania State University (used for GEOG210)
ESRI ebooks - free
National Academies Press The National Academies Press - the US publisher for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council - is offering all of its books free in PDF format. The books cover a range of science topics, including hundreds of geospatial books.
GIS datasets and viewers
New Zealand data online
2006 Census: meshblock dataset The meshblock dataset can be downloaded in MS Excel and Access format. It contains counts, starting at the meshblock level, for selected variables from the 2006 Census of Population and Dwellings. Digital boundaries can be integrated with the dataset. Auckland Council GIS viewer Property, services and environmental monitoring data, as well as topology and aerial photographs for the Auckland region can be viewed on screen and downloaded. CliFlo Hosted by NIWA, CliFlo provides access to New Zealand's National Climate Database. Register to obtain free access. Not available as shapefiles. DOCgis Online viewer for conservancy boundaries, ecological districts and regions, land cover, land resource inventory, place names etc. Geodata.govt.nz Indexes geospatial information for New Zealand with examples of its applied use. Included are sources of raw data, image archives, interactive applications and more. Sites are sorted by subject and listed alphabetically. LINZ Data Service Access to topographic, hydrographic, property and adminstrative spatial data from Land Information New Zealand LRIS portal The LRIS Portal provides access to environment data held by Landcare Research for use in GIS, including biota, climatology, land and soil. The data includes the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory, LENZ underlying layers, national digital elevation models, and regional soils databases. You may search for data using keywords, browse for data using subject categories, use a map-based search interface, download complete layers or clip out smaller areas of interest, and data is available in a wide variety of formats such as Shapefiles, KML, DWG, TIFF. The library also holds CDs for the classification layers (General Library CD 03-596) and underlying data layers (General Library CD 03-595). Ask at the Lending desk to borrow the CDs Koordinates Datasets from New Zealand government, local government and commercial sources, across a wide range of subjects, including land cover, river environment classifications, catchments, boundaries, LiDAR, DEMs, contours and terrain, topography, census data, transportation and utilities and communications New Zealand 2009 digital boundaries 2009 Digital Boundaries covering New Zealand are available to download. Compressed in zip format, the files contain the following geographic layers: meshblock (MB), area unit (AU), urban area (UA), territorial authorities (TA), regional council (RC), wards, General (GEDs07) and Māori (MEDs07) electoral districts. The annual pattern starts from 2007 and covers only New Zealand. Also available are Census-based digital boundaries for year 2001 which covers only New Zealand. The 2006 Census boundaries cover New Zealand and are broken down into regions. New Zealand Social Science Data Services Tablular data not shapefiles StreetLink StreetLink is made up of two parts: Streets file, and Areas file. The Streets file is an electronic list of address ranges and street names that fall within meshblocks. The Streets file is used to geocode addresses to meshblocks. This enables users to analyse businesses, trends and the like, in any of the geographic areas in the Areas file. The Streets file is updated on a monthly basis with information on new or altered streets and other land developments. The Areas file is an electronic list that classifies meshblocks into larger geographic areas, such as area units, territorial authorities and regional councils. The Areas file, also known as a concordance file, provides a mapping of the geographic hierarchies so you can see how the various geographic boundaries link together. For each meshblock, there is a series of codes that link to any meshblock-defined geographic areas. All areas are set as at 1 January of the specified year. Concordance files are available from differing years, to enable data for the same area classification to be compared over time. A concordance file is useful to geographic information system (GIS) users. Currently available are the 2006 Census Areas, 2008 Annual Areas and 2009 Annual Areas.
2006 Census: meshblock dataset The meshblock dataset can be downloaded in MS Excel and Access format. It contains counts, starting at the meshblock level, for selected variables from the 2006 Census of Population and Dwellings. Digital boundaries can be integrated with the dataset.
CliFlo Hosted by NIWA, CliFlo provides access to New Zealand's National Climate Database. Register to obtain free access. Not available as shapefiles.
DOCgis Online viewer for conservancy boundaries, ecological districts and regions, land cover, land resource inventory, place names etc.
Geodata.govt.nz Indexes geospatial information for New Zealand with examples of its applied use. Included are sources of raw data, image archives, interactive applications and more. Sites are sorted by subject and listed alphabetically.
LINZ Data Service Access to topographic, hydrographic, property and adminstrative spatial data from Land Information New Zealand
Koordinates Datasets from New Zealand government, local government and commercial sources, across a wide range of subjects, including land cover, river environment classifications, catchments, boundaries, LiDAR, DEMs, contours and terrain, topography, census data, transportation and utilities and communications
New Zealand 2009 digital boundaries 2009 Digital Boundaries covering New Zealand are available to download. Compressed in zip format, the files contain the following geographic layers: meshblock (MB), area unit (AU), urban area (UA), territorial authorities (TA), regional council (RC), wards, General (GEDs07) and Māori (MEDs07) electoral districts. The annual pattern starts from 2007 and covers only New Zealand. Also available are Census-based digital boundaries for year 2001 which covers only New Zealand. The 2006 Census boundaries cover New Zealand and are broken down into regions.
New Zealand Social Science Data Services Tablular data not shapefiles
StreetLink StreetLink is made up of two parts: Streets file, and Areas file. The Streets file is an electronic list of address ranges and street names that fall within meshblocks. The Streets file is used to geocode addresses to meshblocks. This enables users to analyse businesses, trends and the like, in any of the geographic areas in the Areas file. The Streets file is updated on a monthly basis with information on new or altered streets and other land developments. The Areas file is an electronic list that classifies meshblocks into larger geographic areas, such as area units, territorial authorities and regional councils. The Areas file, also known as a concordance file, provides a mapping of the geographic hierarchies so you can see how the various geographic boundaries link together. For each meshblock, there is a series of codes that link to any meshblock-defined geographic areas. All areas are set as at 1 January of the specified year. Concordance files are available from differing years, to enable data for the same area classification to be compared over time. A concordance file is useful to geographic information system (GIS) users. Currently available are the 2006 Census Areas, 2008 Annual Areas and 2009 Annual Areas.
New Zealand data via University of Auckland Library
Manuakau City Council district plan shapefiles New Zealand Marine Environment Classification Marine classification layers for the EEZ region and the Hauraki Gulf. Classifications are presented as pdfs, ESRI shapefiles, ESRI grids and ascii grids. Other outputs from the classfication procedure are also included. GENERAL LIBRARY Map Room Level M CD-ROM 05-354. PDF New Zealand River Environment Classification River classification layers for each region (ESRI Shapefiles) -- REC watersheds for each region (zipped Shapefiles) -- REC User Guide (PDF format) -- "Tracer" installation files -- "Grouper" installation files. GENERAL LIBRARY Map Room Level M CD-ROM 07-066. An update file is available from NIWA. Also see http://koordinates.com QMAP Vector and Image Data The Library has vector and image data for the published 1:250,000 geological QMAPs covering New Zealand. Data includes DEMs. This data is on CDs held in the Map Room of the General Library. The CDs are borrowable. QMAP map images are also available online from GNS
Manuakau City Council district plan shapefiles
New Zealand Marine Environment Classification Marine classification layers for the EEZ region and the Hauraki Gulf. Classifications are presented as pdfs, ESRI shapefiles, ESRI grids and ascii grids. Other outputs from the classfication procedure are also included. GENERAL LIBRARY Map Room Level M CD-ROM 05-354. PDF
New Zealand River Environment Classification River classification layers for each region (ESRI Shapefiles) -- REC watersheds for each region (zipped Shapefiles) -- REC User Guide (PDF format) -- "Tracer" installation files -- "Grouper" installation files. GENERAL LIBRARY Map Room Level M CD-ROM 07-066. An update file is available from NIWA. Also see http://koordinates.com
QMAP Vector and Image Data The Library has vector and image data for the published 1:250,000 geological QMAPs covering New Zealand. Data includes DEMs. This data is on CDs held in the Map Room of the General Library. The CDs are borrowable.
QMAP map images are also available online from GNS
New Zealand data held by the School of Environment (For Staff and Students of University of Auckland only)
The School of Environment and the University library have purchased a number of New Zealand wide geographic datasets for use in teaching and non-profit research. Access via https://winfiles.fos.auckland.ac.nz/Share/GDH/ If you are a member of the university and you can't access this file contact Graeme Glen Data includes: Auckland Council data sets Includes aerial photos (File names refer to Topo50 sheet numbers and grid references- see LINZ map chooser), hydrology, LiDAR. Environment Canterbury - post quake LIDAR KiwImage KiwImage is an All of Government project to capture accurate, high resolution imagery of all of New Zealand and the Offshore Islands. The project is group funded by various Government Agencies, Territorial & Regional Authorities, State Owned Enterprises (SOE), Emergency Services, Crown Research Institutes, and Universities. KiwImage is available to members of these agencies. To access images, check the coverage using this index map then contact the Geo-graphics Unit at the School of Environment or else go to https://winfiles.fos.auckland.ac.nz/Share/GDH/ New Zealand Aerial Mapping - historic imagery of Piha 1940 - 2010 Worldwide Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University : Public data resources lists Change matters Landsat imagery Access to multi-temporal, multi-spectral worldwide Landsat GLS data ChinaDataOnline An online service provided by the All China Market Research Company in association with the the China Data Center at the University of Michigan, China Data Online offers a wide range of statistical reports on China. The Library has licensed the DemographicsNowChina segment of CDO, providing spatial data reports and maps using census statistics. Consortium for Spatial Information Collections of data on population, poverty, climate, soils, crops, livestock, transportation, and biodiversity and other geospatial global public goods David Rumsey Map Collection Georeferenced historical maps. Worldwide coverage DIVA-GIS Free spatial data at country, continent and global scales. Includes climate, elevation, species occurence data and high resolution satellite imagery Earth Explorer from United States Geological Survey. Includes elevation data, satallite imagery and remote sensing data from multiple sources EDEN : Emerging Diseases in a changing European eNvironment : Global GIS data links EROS : Earth Resources Observation and Science (United States Geological Survey)FAO GeoNetwork Covers food, agriculture, climate, hydrology, soils etc as well as indicators of human health and wellbeing Geodata.gov US maps and data GeoCommons Free online visualisations of spatial data. Create and share maps online GIS Data Depot -Data Catalog Free and for fee. Register to access both. Global Change Master Directory NASA directory for environmental and earth science data Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association Lists of portals worldwide Infomine: Maps and GIS Search by subject. Collection from the University of California Libre Map Project (US) Access to open access US data National Climatic Data Centre (US) Natural Earth Data Free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m and 1:110m scales. Supported by the North American Cartographic Information Society Spatial Services Information Stack Australian geological spatial data, open access, from CSIRO and AuScope in collaboration with other research institutions WorldClim - Global Climate Data From Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley Imagery - includes remotely sensed satellite imagery and aerial photography Useful list of satellites and their sensors and spatial resolutions at EOEdu - remote sensing education site. Auckland Council GIS viewer Includes current and historical aerial photographs for the Auckland region. Can be viewed on screen and downloaded. Change matters - Landsat imagery Access to multi-temporal, multi-spectral worldwide Landsat GLS data DIVA-GIS Free GIS data including imagery Earth Explorer from United States Geological Survey. Includes elevation data, satallite imagery and remote sensing data from multiple sources Global Land Cover Facility - Map search interface The GLCF develops and distributes remotely sensed satellite data and products that explain land cover from the local to global scales. KiwImage (For Staff and Students of University of Auckland only) Check the coverage using this index map then contact the Geo-graphics Unit at the School of Environment or else go to https://winfiles.fos.auckland.ac.nz/Share and then navigate to GDH folder. (For Staff and Students of University of Auckland only) Koordinates (NZ) Datasets from New Zealand government, local government and commercial sources, across a wide range of subjects, including land cover, boundaries, contours and terrain, topography, census data, transportation and utilities and communications Landsat Remote sensing data from satellites which have been observing earth since 1972. Jointly managed by NASA and the US Geological Survey LINZ recent orthorectified aerial photography of New Zealand USGS Global Visualization Viewer Prints of New Zealand Aerial Mapping surveys The map room on level M in the General Library holds prints of some the historical collection of aerial photography commissioned by the Department of Survey and Land Information - now LINZ. Please check the index maps in the map room for flight paths and ask the Subject Librarian for help Bathymetry NIWA New Zealand Region Bathymetry This dataset provides the most up-to-date bathymetry of one of the largest areas of deep-water seabed under national jurisdiction. The 250m resolution gridded bathymetric data set encompasses New Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone and is available in multiple high-resolution file formats to suit a range of imagery and mapping needs. NOAA Bathymetry and Global Relief National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) compiles bathymetry, topography, relief, and elevation models. Products include imagery, posters, slides, GIS layers, digital models, grids, and contours Open source GIS software Open Source Geospatial Foundation Portal to all open source GIS. Notable ones are uDIG, QGIS, GRASS, NASA WorldWind and gvSIG Free GIS software (not all open source) FreeGIS.org Some of the GIS Serials accessible through the University of Auckland Library A complete list can be found through Library Search. Search for Geographic Information Systems and refine your results by format = journal. Applied GIS Applied spatial analysis and policy Cartography and geographic information science GeoInformatica GeoWorld GIM interational International journal of geographical information science Journal of geographical systems Journal of map & geography libraries Position Transactions in GIS GIS Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Bibliographies Held by the University of Auckland Library Encyclopedia of GIS [electronic resource] / Shashi Shekhar, Hui Xiong (eds.). New York, Springer, 2008. Encyclopedia of geographic information science [electronic resource] / Karen K. Kemp (ed.). Thousand Oaks, Sage Online, 2007. Open access online Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing Created by staff at the University of California - Berkeley Library, this dictionary decodes abbreviations and acronyms found in various publications including maps and websites. These abbreviations or acronyms, therefore, are not necessarily authoritative or standardized in format or content. ESRI GIS Bibliography This bibliography covers the literature of geographic information systems, science, and technology. It indexes journals, conference proceedings, books, and reports from the origins of GIS to the present. There are currently more than 78,000 entries in the bibliography, making it one of the world’s largest online repositories for information about geographic information science (GIScience) and geographic information system (GIS) technology. GIS Dictionary From the ESRI Support Center, this dictionary includes terms from GIS operations such as analysis, data management, and geocomputation; from rapidly evolving uses of GIS for modeling, GIScience, and Web-based GIS; and from the GIS foundation fields of cartography, spatial statistics, computer science, surveying, geodesy, and remote sensing. This online GIS Dictionary also includes ESRI software-specific terminology. GIS Dictionary Includes definitions for 980 terms compiled from a variety of sources which either relate directly to GIS or which GIS users may come across in the course of their work. The dictionary is also supplemented by 52 diagrams. Developed by the Association for Geographic Information. GIS Tools Online Allows conversions to be calculated for length, area, DegMinSec to DecDeg, DecDeg to DegMinSec, degrees to radians, time to GPS seconds. There is also a scale calculator. GIS at New Zealand universities Auckland University of Technology Massey University University of Canterbury University of Otago School of Surveying University of Waikato Victoria University of Wellington GIS at overseas universities Arizona State University GeoDa Center Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University Columbia University GIS Working Group Geospatial Innovation Facility, University of California Berkeley Penn State Stanford University of Bristol Spatial Modelling Group University of California Santa Barbara University of Edinburgh University of Southern California GIS Research Laboratory Web sites ANZLIC the Spatial Information Council Geospatial Data Integration Portal (Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research) GIS Domain GIS Lounge Globetrotter - from the (US) National Geospatial Digital Archive Land Environments of New Zealand (LENZ) National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (US) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (US) New Zealand ESRI Users Group New Zealand Geospatial Metadata Standard New Zealand Geospatial Strategy Open Geospatial Consortium for development of standards for geospatial and location based services Open Source Geospatial Foundation portal for open source GIS Terralink International Visualization of Remote Sensing Data (NASA) Subject Librarian: Environment - Priscilla Cameron File last updated : April 13, 2012 . Comments and suggestions to : Priscilla Cameron
The School of Environment and the University library have purchased a number of New Zealand wide geographic datasets for use in teaching and non-profit research. Access via https://winfiles.fos.auckland.ac.nz/Share/GDH/ If you are a member of the university and you can't access this file contact Graeme Glen
Data includes:
Worldwide
Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University : Public data resources lists Change matters Landsat imagery Access to multi-temporal, multi-spectral worldwide Landsat GLS data ChinaDataOnline An online service provided by the All China Market Research Company in association with the the China Data Center at the University of Michigan, China Data Online offers a wide range of statistical reports on China. The Library has licensed the DemographicsNowChina segment of CDO, providing spatial data reports and maps using census statistics. Consortium for Spatial Information Collections of data on population, poverty, climate, soils, crops, livestock, transportation, and biodiversity and other geospatial global public goods David Rumsey Map Collection Georeferenced historical maps. Worldwide coverage DIVA-GIS Free spatial data at country, continent and global scales. Includes climate, elevation, species occurence data and high resolution satellite imagery Earth Explorer from United States Geological Survey. Includes elevation data, satallite imagery and remote sensing data from multiple sources EDEN : Emerging Diseases in a changing European eNvironment : Global GIS data links EROS : Earth Resources Observation and Science (United States Geological Survey)FAO GeoNetwork Covers food, agriculture, climate, hydrology, soils etc as well as indicators of human health and wellbeing Geodata.gov US maps and data GeoCommons Free online visualisations of spatial data. Create and share maps online GIS Data Depot -Data Catalog Free and for fee. Register to access both. Global Change Master Directory NASA directory for environmental and earth science data Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association Lists of portals worldwide Infomine: Maps and GIS Search by subject. Collection from the University of California Libre Map Project (US) Access to open access US data National Climatic Data Centre (US) Natural Earth Data Free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m and 1:110m scales. Supported by the North American Cartographic Information Society Spatial Services Information Stack Australian geological spatial data, open access, from CSIRO and AuScope in collaboration with other research institutions WorldClim - Global Climate Data From Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University : Public data resources lists
Change matters Landsat imagery Access to multi-temporal, multi-spectral worldwide Landsat GLS data
ChinaDataOnline An online service provided by the All China Market Research Company in association with the the China Data Center at the University of Michigan, China Data Online offers a wide range of statistical reports on China. The Library has licensed the DemographicsNowChina segment of CDO, providing spatial data reports and maps using census statistics.
Consortium for Spatial Information Collections of data on population, poverty, climate, soils, crops, livestock, transportation, and biodiversity and other geospatial global public goods
David Rumsey Map Collection Georeferenced historical maps. Worldwide coverage
DIVA-GIS Free spatial data at country, continent and global scales. Includes climate, elevation, species occurence data and high resolution satellite imagery
Earth Explorer from United States Geological Survey. Includes elevation data, satallite imagery and remote sensing data from multiple sources
EDEN : Emerging Diseases in a changing European eNvironment : Global GIS data links
EROS : Earth Resources Observation and Science (United States Geological Survey)
FAO GeoNetwork Covers food, agriculture, climate, hydrology, soils etc as well as indicators of human health and wellbeing
Geodata.gov US maps and data
GeoCommons Free online visualisations of spatial data. Create and share maps online
GIS Data Depot -Data Catalog Free and for fee. Register to access both.
Global Change Master Directory NASA directory for environmental and earth science data
Infomine: Maps and GIS Search by subject. Collection from the University of California
Libre Map Project (US) Access to open access US data
National Climatic Data Centre (US)
Natural Earth Data Free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m and 1:110m scales. Supported by the North American Cartographic Information Society
Spatial Services Information Stack Australian geological spatial data, open access, from CSIRO and AuScope in collaboration with other research institutions
WorldClim - Global Climate Data From Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
Imagery - includes remotely sensed satellite imagery and aerial photography
Useful list of satellites and their sensors and spatial resolutions at EOEdu - remote sensing education site.
Auckland Council GIS viewer Includes current and historical aerial photographs for the Auckland region. Can be viewed on screen and downloaded. Change matters - Landsat imagery Access to multi-temporal, multi-spectral worldwide Landsat GLS data DIVA-GIS Free GIS data including imagery Earth Explorer from United States Geological Survey. Includes elevation data, satallite imagery and remote sensing data from multiple sources Global Land Cover Facility - Map search interface The GLCF develops and distributes remotely sensed satellite data and products that explain land cover from the local to global scales. KiwImage (For Staff and Students of University of Auckland only) Check the coverage using this index map then contact the Geo-graphics Unit at the School of Environment or else go to https://winfiles.fos.auckland.ac.nz/Share and then navigate to GDH folder. (For Staff and Students of University of Auckland only) Koordinates (NZ) Datasets from New Zealand government, local government and commercial sources, across a wide range of subjects, including land cover, boundaries, contours and terrain, topography, census data, transportation and utilities and communications Landsat Remote sensing data from satellites which have been observing earth since 1972. Jointly managed by NASA and the US Geological Survey LINZ recent orthorectified aerial photography of New Zealand USGS Global Visualization Viewer Prints of New Zealand Aerial Mapping surveys The map room on level M in the General Library holds prints of some the historical collection of aerial photography commissioned by the Department of Survey and Land Information - now LINZ. Please check the index maps in the map room for flight paths and ask the Subject Librarian for help
Auckland Council GIS viewer Includes current and historical aerial photographs for the Auckland region. Can be viewed on screen and downloaded.
Change matters - Landsat imagery Access to multi-temporal, multi-spectral worldwide Landsat GLS data
DIVA-GIS Free GIS data including imagery
Global Land Cover Facility - Map search interface The GLCF develops and distributes remotely sensed satellite data and products that explain land cover from the local to global scales.
KiwImage (For Staff and Students of University of Auckland only) Check the coverage using this index map then contact the Geo-graphics Unit at the School of Environment or else go to https://winfiles.fos.auckland.ac.nz/Share and then navigate to GDH folder. (For Staff and Students of University of Auckland only)
Koordinates (NZ) Datasets from New Zealand government, local government and commercial sources, across a wide range of subjects, including land cover, boundaries, contours and terrain, topography, census data, transportation and utilities and communications
Landsat Remote sensing data from satellites which have been observing earth since 1972. Jointly managed by NASA and the US Geological Survey
LINZ recent orthorectified aerial photography of New Zealand
USGS Global Visualization Viewer
Prints of New Zealand Aerial Mapping surveys The map room on level M in the General Library holds prints of some the historical collection of aerial photography commissioned by the Department of Survey and Land Information - now LINZ. Please check the index maps in the map room for flight paths and ask the Subject Librarian for help
NIWA New Zealand Region Bathymetry This dataset provides the most up-to-date bathymetry of one of the largest areas of deep-water seabed under national jurisdiction. The 250m resolution gridded bathymetric data set encompasses New Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone and is available in multiple high-resolution file formats to suit a range of imagery and mapping needs. NOAA Bathymetry and Global Relief National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) compiles bathymetry, topography, relief, and elevation models. Products include imagery, posters, slides, GIS layers, digital models, grids, and contours
NIWA New Zealand Region Bathymetry This dataset provides the most up-to-date bathymetry of one of the largest areas of deep-water seabed under national jurisdiction. The 250m resolution gridded bathymetric data set encompasses New Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone and is available in multiple high-resolution file formats to suit a range of imagery and mapping needs.
NOAA Bathymetry and Global Relief National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) compiles bathymetry, topography, relief, and elevation models. Products include imagery, posters, slides, GIS layers, digital models, grids, and contours
Open source GIS software
Open Source Geospatial Foundation Portal to all open source GIS. Notable ones are uDIG, QGIS, GRASS, NASA WorldWind and gvSIG
Free GIS software (not all open source)
FreeGIS.org
Some of the GIS Serials accessible through the University of Auckland Library
A complete list can be found through Library Search. Search for Geographic Information Systems and refine your results by format = journal.
Applied GIS Applied spatial analysis and policy Cartography and geographic information science GeoInformatica GeoWorld GIM interational International journal of geographical information science Journal of geographical systems Journal of map & geography libraries Position Transactions in GIS
Applied GIS
Applied spatial analysis and policy
Cartography and geographic information science
GeoInformatica
GeoWorld
GIM interational
International journal of geographical information science
Journal of geographical systems
Journal of map & geography libraries
Position
Transactions in GIS
GIS Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Bibliographies
Held by the University of Auckland Library
Encyclopedia of GIS [electronic resource] / Shashi Shekhar, Hui Xiong (eds.). New York, Springer, 2008. Encyclopedia of geographic information science [electronic resource] / Karen K. Kemp (ed.). Thousand Oaks, Sage Online, 2007.
Encyclopedia of GIS [electronic resource] / Shashi Shekhar, Hui Xiong (eds.). New York, Springer, 2008.
Encyclopedia of geographic information science [electronic resource] / Karen K. Kemp (ed.). Thousand Oaks, Sage Online, 2007.
Open access online
Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing Created by staff at the University of California - Berkeley Library, this dictionary decodes abbreviations and acronyms found in various publications including maps and websites. These abbreviations or acronyms, therefore, are not necessarily authoritative or standardized in format or content. ESRI GIS Bibliography This bibliography covers the literature of geographic information systems, science, and technology. It indexes journals, conference proceedings, books, and reports from the origins of GIS to the present. There are currently more than 78,000 entries in the bibliography, making it one of the world’s largest online repositories for information about geographic information science (GIScience) and geographic information system (GIS) technology. GIS Dictionary From the ESRI Support Center, this dictionary includes terms from GIS operations such as analysis, data management, and geocomputation; from rapidly evolving uses of GIS for modeling, GIScience, and Web-based GIS; and from the GIS foundation fields of cartography, spatial statistics, computer science, surveying, geodesy, and remote sensing. This online GIS Dictionary also includes ESRI software-specific terminology. GIS Dictionary Includes definitions for 980 terms compiled from a variety of sources which either relate directly to GIS or which GIS users may come across in the course of their work. The dictionary is also supplemented by 52 diagrams. Developed by the Association for Geographic Information. GIS Tools Online Allows conversions to be calculated for length, area, DegMinSec to DecDeg, DecDeg to DegMinSec, degrees to radians, time to GPS seconds. There is also a scale calculator.
Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing Created by staff at the University of California - Berkeley Library, this dictionary decodes abbreviations and acronyms found in various publications including maps and websites. These abbreviations or acronyms, therefore, are not necessarily authoritative or standardized in format or content.
ESRI GIS Bibliography This bibliography covers the literature of geographic information systems, science, and technology. It indexes journals, conference proceedings, books, and reports from the origins of GIS to the present. There are currently more than 78,000 entries in the bibliography, making it one of the world’s largest online repositories for information about geographic information science (GIScience) and geographic information system (GIS) technology.
GIS Dictionary From the ESRI Support Center, this dictionary includes terms from GIS operations such as analysis, data management, and geocomputation; from rapidly evolving uses of GIS for modeling, GIScience, and Web-based GIS; and from the GIS foundation fields of cartography, spatial statistics, computer science, surveying, geodesy, and remote sensing. This online GIS Dictionary also includes ESRI software-specific terminology.
GIS Dictionary Includes definitions for 980 terms compiled from a variety of sources which either relate directly to GIS or which GIS users may come across in the course of their work. The dictionary is also supplemented by 52 diagrams. Developed by the Association for Geographic Information.
GIS Tools Online Allows conversions to be calculated for length, area, DegMinSec to DecDeg, DecDeg to DegMinSec, degrees to radians, time to GPS seconds. There is also a scale calculator.
GIS at New Zealand universities
Auckland University of Technology Massey University University of Canterbury University of Otago School of Surveying University of Waikato Victoria University of Wellington
Auckland University of Technology
Massey University
University of Canterbury
University of Otago School of Surveying
University of Waikato
Victoria University of Wellington
GIS at overseas universities
Arizona State University GeoDa Center Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University Columbia University GIS Working Group Geospatial Innovation Facility, University of California Berkeley Penn State Stanford University of Bristol Spatial Modelling Group University of California Santa Barbara University of Edinburgh University of Southern California GIS Research Laboratory
Arizona State University GeoDa Center
Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
Columbia University GIS Working Group
Geospatial Innovation Facility, University of California Berkeley
Penn State
Stanford
University of Bristol Spatial Modelling Group
University of California Santa Barbara
University of Edinburgh
University of Southern California GIS Research Laboratory
Web sites
ANZLIC the Spatial Information Council Geospatial Data Integration Portal (Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research) GIS Domain GIS Lounge Globetrotter - from the (US) National Geospatial Digital Archive Land Environments of New Zealand (LENZ) National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (US) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (US) New Zealand ESRI Users Group New Zealand Geospatial Metadata Standard New Zealand Geospatial Strategy Open Geospatial Consortium for development of standards for geospatial and location based services Open Source Geospatial Foundation portal for open source GIS Terralink International Visualization of Remote Sensing Data (NASA)
ANZLIC the Spatial Information Council
Geospatial Data Integration Portal (Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research)
GIS Domain
GIS Lounge
Globetrotter - from the (US) National Geospatial Digital Archive
Land Environments of New Zealand (LENZ)
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (US)
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (US)
New Zealand ESRI Users Group
New Zealand Geospatial Metadata Standard
New Zealand Geospatial Strategy
Open Geospatial Consortium for development of standards for geospatial and location based services
Open Source Geospatial Foundation portal for open source GIS
Terralink International
Visualization of Remote Sensing Data (NASA)
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File last updated : April 13, 2012 . Comments and suggestions to : Priscilla Cameron