Geospatial Software at the GIIF
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ArcGIS (ESRI, Inc.)
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Hawth's Analysis Tools Hawth's Tools is a free extension for ESRI's ArcGIS ArcMap. It performs several functions that cannot be accomplished with out-of-the-box ArcGIS, including many tools useful for ecological analysis, i.e. animal movement, land cover raster analysis, etc. Hawth's Tools is installed on all workstations in 111 and 124 Mulford Hall. You can download and install Hawth's Tools on your machine to use with ArcGIS by going to: |
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XTools Pro XTools Pro is a useful extension created for use with ESRI's ArcGIS ArcMap. After you download and install XTools Pro, all functionality is free for 30 days, after which only some tools are free for use and others you must purchase a license. The GIIF has not purchased a license, and only contains the free tools in 111 and 124 Mulford Hall. You can download and install XTools Pro on your machine to use with ArcGIS by going to: http://xtoolspro.com/download.html |
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ENVI (ITT Visual Information Solutions) ENVI is software for the visualization, analysis, and presentation of all types of digital imagery, and features particular strength in hyperspectral image analysis. ENVI is written in IDL (Interactive Data Language), an array-oriented language with numerous mathematical analysis tools and large dataset manipulation capabilities. The GIIF hosts 13 licenses for ENVI 4.4 and IDL 6.4, as well as the ENVI feature extraction tool (ENVIfx), an object-based segmentation and classification tool. Take a workshop to learn image processing and classification with ENVI! |
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Erdas Imagine (Leica Geosystems, Inc.) Leica Geosystems has donated analyph glasses for use in workshops, courses, and Facility activities, including for use with K-12 activities! Thank you so much Leica Geosystems! |
Definiens Developer "eCognition" (Definiens, Inc.) |
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Quantum GIS (QGIS) |
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Google Earth Pro (Google, Inc.) |
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Geographic Resources Analysis Support
System (GRASS) |
Fragstats (U. of Massachusetts) |






