Google Earth Pro permits users, among other things, to measure distances and areas, embed photos and links, open third party KMZ data, create KML overlays from geologic maps, view movies and historical imagery, and use flight simulators. The library has 30 educational licenses of Google Earth Pro. The licenses are installed in Classroom B, and on computers in the North Reading Room and Central Reading Room. Students should ask to use the GIS computer in the North Reading Room and the GovDocs machine in the Central Reading Room. For faculty wanting to reserve Classroom B for instruction involving Google Earth Pro, please contact Janet Clarke, Instruction Librarian.
Stony Brook participates in a SUNY-wide site license with Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI). Under this license, Stony Brook students, faculty, and staff have access to a wide range of ESRI tutorials (Virtual Campus), data and ArcGIS/ArcView software and services. Additional information is available in the contract between SUNY and ESRI. Please send an email to ESRI_support@stonybrook.edu for a registration number. More information on ESRI can be found on DoIT web page at http://it.stonybrook.edu/software/title/esri.
These software packages are easily integrated to present and analyze your data or that found on web services.
PostGIS: software that spatially enables PostgreSQL. Software used by NOAA and NASA
PostgreSQL: an advanced open source database
GeoServer: This software includes OGC reference implementations of Web Feature and Web Coverage Services.
Quantum GIS (QGIS): supports vector, raster and database functions
OpenStreetMap: a software package permitting viewing and editing of global data
These tools, software and platforms have been described briefly in my recent publication “Implementing Geospatial Web Services: A Resource Webliography”. Other comments may be added here.
Tools
Codehaus: GeoTools: Home
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home
Generalitat Valenciana: gvSIG
http://www.gvsig.org/web/home/gvsig-home/view?set_language=en
OpenLayers: Free Maps for the Web
http://www.openlayers.org/
Software
con terra: mapClient 2.3
http://www.sdi-suite.de/index_en.shtm
GeoNetwork Opensource
http://geonetwork-opensource.org/
Google: Google Earth Developer's Guide
http://code.google.com/apis/earth/documentation/
GRASS: Welcome to GRASS GIS
http://grass.itc.it/
MapServer: About
http://mapserver.org/about.html#about
PCI Geomatics: Download Products and Features
http://www.pcigeomatics.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91&Itemid=12
Refractions Research Inc.: uDig
http://udig.refractions.net/
Safe Software: FME Server Overview
http://www.safe.com/products/server/overview.php
Snowflake Software: Publish to Open Standards with GO Publisher
http://www.snowflakesoftware.co.uk/products/gopublisher/index.htm
http://koenigstuhl.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/xnaviwiki/doku.php
Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo): Home
http://mapguide.osgeo.org/features.html
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