Using the Web for Geoscience Resources (FAQ)
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Last-modified: 1995/08/30
Using The Web for Earth Sciences Information on the Internet
Part 1: Sites, Registers, Searches and Data
This file was last updated on 30th August, 1995.
This faq is posted to the following news groups:
sci.geo.geology
sci.geo.hydrology
sci.geo.oceanography
comp.infosystems.gis
You can obtain the most recent version of this faq from:
i) the sci.answers, comp.answers or news.answers news group.
ii) send mail to: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line
in the body of the message -
send usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/geosci-resources/part1
iii) by anonymous ftp to:
rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/geosci-resources/part1
I also keep two web pages, which are basically the same as the info on the
faq, but with more info. Try:
The Virtual Earth: http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/v_earth.html/
The Soft Earth: http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/s_earth.html/
This faq is not to be used for commercial gain.
Phillip Ingram
pingram@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/pingram.html
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There is an increasing amount of geosciences information available
on the Internet, and more is becoming available every day. Having
the ability to search out this information is probably more useful
than a list of Earth Sciences sites.
The World Wide Web, with Web browsers such as Mosaic and Netscape, have
become the default standard in cruising the internet. The WWW protocol
can access other internet protocols such as telnet, ftp and gopher,
and implement and access facilities such as mail and UseNet News.
What follows are starting points for internet exploration with a Web browser
for the Earth Sciences. Included is general Web information, Web Indexes for
the Earth Sciences, Searches (Robots, Crawlers, Worms etc), the USGS Web
site, and other special Earth Sciences connections and sites of related
interest.
Part 2 of this FAQ contains resources for software and software sites.
Just as the Web has become the default standard for navigating the
internet, the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) has become the standard
method of specifying a particular object on the internet. A URL has
the general form of:
protocol://host.domain:port-number/dir/subdir/file
where: protocol is the type of server to be accessed, such as http,
gopher, telnet, ftp, news; or service to be implemented such as
mailto.
host.domain is the host servers name and domain.
port-number is the port in which the server is configured to listen
for requests. If using the protocols default port this entry is not
necessary. HTTP servers listen, by default, on port 80, gopher
servers on port 70, telnet on port 23.
dir/subdir/file is the path and file which is to be accessed. If
omitted, the default root entry, if applicable, will be accessed.
Modifications of the above are necessary for mailto, news and telnet. Gopher
URLs can appear complicated as Hexadecimal equivalents need to be substituted
for some Ascii characters.
Your web browser needs to be configured to access a News and Mail server
for these two functions to work.
Examples include:
http://host.domain:80/dir/subdir/html-file
http://info.cern.ch/default.html
gopher://host.domain:70/
gopher://wombat.es.mq.edu.au
mailto:someone@their.address
mailto:pingram@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
news:usenet.news.group
news:sci.geo.geology
ftp://host.domain/dir/file
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/mirrors/msdos/graphics/gifkit.zip
telnet://login-name@host.domain:23
telnet://mars@mars.ocs.mq.edu.au
or telnet://host.domain
telnet://laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
Alterations in July, 1995
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- added Geosciences Ltd in Commercial Sites
- added Hyperspectrum newsletter
- added British Antarctic Survey
- added ICAIR Antarctic Servers
- added Australian Resources Links
- Deleted Texas A&M's web site
- added Dino Russ's Links Page
- added EPA's web page
- modified Registers section and included all
Virtual Libraries under CERN
- added WWW Virtual Library for Oceanography
- added Ohio-State usenet geoscience FAQs
- added @ngis Q&A page
- deleted G. Mills' Geology site
- deleted QUB's GIS VirtualLibrary
- altered some of the Search Engines eg Lycos, Crawler, and added others
- added section on General Web Indexes and connections
- added the Radiolarian Page
- added the Electronic Prehistoric Shark Museum
- added FAQ pages from Universiteit Utrecht
- added FAQ pages from Oxford University
- deleted hytelnet from U. Saskatchewan, but added their Library Services
Alterations in August, 1995
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- added Frank Smiths GIS web site
- added Werners GIS Page (was maintained by Roland Stahl)
- added Intera Inc. site
- added AAPG site
- added NGDC Natural Hazards Page
- added several Web searches
- inserted a new section 4 (Web Gateways) and renumbered others below
- modified section 8. (FAQs and Resource Guides
- added section 7f. (Paleontology and Museums)
- added section 7g. (Petrology and Mineralogy)
- added John Harrop's Geo Exchange
- deleted Steve Schimmri's Geology list (structural geology still there)
- added Physical Science Learning Center
- added USGS Geochemistry and USGS Internet Resources sites
- added Web Elements and Periodic Table sites
- added Statistical Courses with Home Pages
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0. CONTENTS
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0.1 General Web Information
0.2 The USGS Web Sites
0.3 Subject Indexes
0.3a General Web Indexes
0.3b Web Indexes for Earth Sciences
0.3c Gopher Subject Trees
0.4 Web Gateways
0.4a WAIS Gateways
0.4b Hypermail
0.4c ArchiePlex
0.4d WAIS/FAQ Gateways
0.5 Searches
0.5a WWW Searches (Robots, Worms, Crawlers, Spiders etc)
0.5b Gopher Jughead Searches
0.5c Gopher Veronica Searches
0.5d Gopher WAIS Searches
0.6 Special Earth Sciences Connections
0.7 Sites of Related Interest
0.7a Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs)
0.7b Environmental Sites
0.7c GIS, Satellite and Mapping Sites
0.7d Oceangography Sites
0.7e Paleontolgy and Museums
0.7f Petrology and Mineralogy
0.7g Other Sites
0.8 FAQs and Resource Guides
0.8a FAQs at RTFM, MIT
0.8b Hypertext Resource Guides
0.9 Announcements, New Sites and News Groups
0.10 Listservs and Listserv Information
0.11 Library Servers
0.12 Commercial Organisations
0.12a Mining/Exploration Information and Newspapers
0.12b Mapping and GIS
0.12c Geology Information
0.13 Information on Bulletin Boards
0.14 Journals and Bulletins
0.15 Electronic Preprints and Supplements
0.16 Geological Surveys and Organisations
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1. General Web Information
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i) The WWW Initiative
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
ii) WWW Summary
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Summary.html
iii) Entering the WWW, A Guide to Cyberspace
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/guide.www.html
iv) The List of WWW Servers
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Servers.html
v) W3 Clients
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Clients.html
vi) WWW Wanderers, Spiders and Robots
http://web.nexor.co.uk/mak/doc/robots/robots.html
vii) List of Robots
http://web.nexor.co.uk/mak/doc/robots/active.html
viii) A WWW Primer
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/who/Nathan.Torkington/ideas/www-primer.html
ix) Special Internet Connections
http://www.uwm.edu/Mirror/inet.services.html
x) WWW/Mosaic Training Material from the USGS
http://info.er.usgs.gov:4444/train
xi) Internet Resources from the USGS
http://www.usgs.gov/network/resources.html
xii) Internet Guides and Papers from Telstra Corporation (Australia)
http://www.telstra.com.au/guide.html
xiii) HTML-3 Primer
http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pwb/html3/Contents.html
xix) A Self Guided Tour of The Internet
http://www.geosc.uh.edu/anon.internet
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2. The USGS Web Sites
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i) The USGS home page:
http://www.usgs.gov/
ii) The USGS What's New page
http://internet.er.usgs.gov/whats-new/whats-new.html
iii) Water Resources:
http://h2o.er.usgs.gov/
iv) National Mapping Information:
http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/
v) Data Products:
http://www.usgs.gov/data/index.html
vi) Publications:
http://www.usgs.gov/reports/index.html
vii) National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
http://nsdi.usgs.gov/nsdi/
viii) Geographic Information Systems
http://www.usgs.gov/research/gis/title.html
ix) FGDC - Manual of Geographic Data Products
http://www.usgs.gov/fgdc-catalog/title.html
x) GeoData Products Index
http://www.usgs.gov/fgdc-catalog/main/usgs.html
xi) The USGS Water Resources Division in Colorado:
http://webserver.cr.usgs.gov/
xii) The USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory (and links to
the Alaskan and Hawaiin Volcano Observatories):
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/home.html
xiii) USGS Hawaii Volcano Watch Reports
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/hvo/
xiv) Marine Geology, National Marine and Coastal Geology Program
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov
xv) Earthquake Information from Menlo Park:
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/
xvi) USGS Global Change Research Program
http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/
xvii) USGS Morrison Research Initiative
http://yuma.colostate.edu/~cwis70/morrison.html
xix) USGS Minerals Page
http://minerals.er.usgs.gov
xx) Interner Resources
http://bramble.er.usgs.gov/internetresources.html
xxi) USGS Branch of Geochemistry
http://helios.cr.usgs.gov/
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3) SUBJECT INDEXES
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3a. General Web Indexes
i) Yahoo (a very popular starting point, includes a search engine)
http://www.yahoo.com
ii) The Whole Internet Catalog
http://nearnet.gnn.com/wic/index.html
iii) Zilker Internet Park
http://www.zilker.net
iv) Einet GALAXY
http://galaxy.einet.net
3b. Web Indexes for Earth Sciences
Various sites maintain lists of hyperlinks to other servers. These
are registers, virtual libraries and meta-indexes. They are good
starting points to explore the web on a particular subject. Many html-ised
resource guides (see Section 8) can also be considered to be registers.
i) The latest on-line version of ORES (B. Thoen & T. Smith)
This site is, or will be, one of the most comprehensive on-line documents
available for geoscientists. It is very well structured. Each geoscientific
field has web pages in each of the following catagories: Mailing Lists, News
Groups, Documents and FAQs, Journals and Periodicals, Data and Software,
Hypermedia Resources.
http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/
The fields covered include:
- Geography and GIS
http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/gis/index.html
- Geology (many areas)
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/index.html
- Oceanography
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/ocean/index.html
- Weather, meteorology and Climate
http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/weather/index.html
ii) CERN's Virtual Library
The CERN organisation is responsible for the Web. They request new servers
register with them, and these links form the Virtual Library, which is broken
up into catagories. Not all catagories are maintained by CERN. The main
index is at:
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview2.html
Other links at:
- Earth Sciences
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/VL-EarthSciences.html
- Geophysics
http://www-crewes.geo.ucalgary.ca/VL-Geophysics.html
- Oceanography
http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/ocean/oceanography.html
- Remote Sensing
http://www.vtt.fi/aut/ava/rs/virtual/
- Crystallography
http://www.unige.ch/crystal/crystal-index.html
- Environment
http://ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu/Environment.html
iii) The University of Houston Anon Server - for those with an interest
in mathematics, computers and Earth Sciences and the publications of
Mathematical Geology and Computers in Geosciences
http://www.geosc.uh.edu/anon.html
Main categories include:
- Links to Internet Resources
http://www.geosc.uh.edu/AnonResources.html
- Educational Resources - courses on the net
http://www.geosc.uh.edu/anoneducation.html
- Geoscience Online resources by Subject Matter
http://www.geosc.uh.edu/geosciencesresources.html
- Data Sources
http://www.geosc.uh.edu/anonData.html
iv) The Geosciences Link at Einet:
http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Science/Geosciences.html
v) Russ Jacobson's (Dino Russ fame) Links page
http://jacobson.isgs.uiuc.edu/earthsci_links.html
vi) Seismosurfing, Surfing the Internet for Seismic Sites:
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/seismosurfing.html
vii) Prospectings of Geophysics and Tectonophysics maintained by Dr Furuse
http://cancer.mss.co.jp/Geophysics/
viii) Mineralogical sites at Clausthal Institute
http://www.immr.tu-clausthal.de/
ix) EARTHNet Info Server for Dinosaurs and Vertebrate Paleontology
http://jacobson.isgs.uiuc.edu/
x) The Earth Environmental Science Center's Hydrology Related Internet
Resources
http://terrassa.pnl.gov:2080/EESC/resourcelist/hydrology.html OR
http://etd.pnl.gov:2080/hydroweb.html
xi) Zilker Internet Park Geosciences Page
an excellent starting point for Earth Sciences, GIS, GPS and much more:
http://www.zilker.net/~hal/geoscience
xii) Earth and Environmental Sciences Connections from the USGS
http://www.usgs.gov/network/science/earth/index.html
xiii) Lists maintained by Steven Schimmrich
- Structrural Geology
http://hercules.geology.uiuc.edu/~schimmri/geology/structure.html
xiv) The Ultimate Mineral Science List (Scott Guthery's list from s.g.p)
http://www.intera.com/Services/UltimateList/
UltimateMineralScienceList.shtml
xv) Groundwater Flow and Transport Modelling Page (by Steve Owen)
http://www.et.byu.edu/~geos/staff/owens/groundwater.html
xvi) Oceanography links via Scripps Institute of Oceanography Library
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/sio/guide/guides.html
xvii) Links to GIS and maps from the Bureau of Land Management, CO
http://www.blm.gov/gis/gishome.html
xviii) A Private Geophysical Collection
http://150.26.230.162/Geophysics/
xix) Frank Smith's Hotlist of GIS Connections
http://www.io.com/~frank/gis.html
xx) The Norwegian Rockhound's Geology List - over 700 geosciences links
http://www.uio.no/~hansjb/link.html
xxi) Oceanography Links to the World Wide Web at Uni. British Columbia
http://www.ocgy.ubc.ca/oceanography.links.html
xxii) Comprehensive List of Popular Meta-Indexes from Telstra
http://www.telstra.com.au/meta/meta.html
3c. Gopher Subject Trees
Gopher was a protocol used before the Web became popular. Many
gopher servers were established, but they are now on the decline.
Many gopher sites have connections listed by subject. Included are:
i) Gopher Jewels at USC
gopher://cwis.usc.edu:70/11/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/
Gophers_by_Subject/Gopher_Jewels
ii) Nth Carolina State Subject Tree
gopher://gopher.ncsu.edu:70/11/res_service
iii) Rice University Subject Listing
gopher://chico.rice.edu:70/11/Subject/
iv) University of Michigan Subject Tree
gopher://vienna.hh.lib.umich.edu:70/1/
v) University of Texas, Subject Gophers
gopher://dillon.geo.ep.utexas.edu:70/11/World/SubjectGophers
vi) USC: Research Information by Subject
gopher://cwis.usc.edu:70/11/LibraryResearch/research/by.subject
vii) UT:Dallas: Internet Information by Subject
gopher://gopher.utdallas.edu:70/11/subject
viii) Washington and Lee Subject Tree
gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/11/gophers/other
ix) U. of Waterloo Subject Tree
gopher://watserv2.uwaterloo.ca:70/11/facilities/University%20of
%20Waterloo%20Library/finding/discipline
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4. Web Gateways
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4a. WAIS Gateways
- WAIS directory of Servers
http://server.wais.com/directory-of-servers.html
- WAISGATE Page
http://server.wais.com/waisgate-announce.html
4b. Hypermail
Web gateway to Usenet news groups
- http://www.eit.com/software/hypermail/hypermail.html
4c. ArchiePlex
This is a Web gateway to the Archie service
- List of ArchiePlex Servers from NEXOR
http://pubweb.nexor.co.uk/archie.html
4d. WAIS/FAQ Gateways
Automated hypertexting of FAQs at the news.answers archives
i) Automated/Searchable Usenet FAQ's at Ohio State
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu:80/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html
- Geoscience's FAQs from Ohio State Uni
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/sci/geo/top.html
ii) Automated/Searchable Usenet FAQs from Universiteit Utrecht
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/cgi-bin/faqwais
- Geosciences FAQ
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/geology-faq/.html
iii) Usenet News from Oxford University
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/
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5. Searches
5a. WWW Searches (Robots, Worms Crawlers, Spiders etc)
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Web searches seek out web sites, search the contents of the pages for
specific data and store the result in a data base. Searches are made
of the data base. The information sought and stored varies from search
engine, so you may have to try several before finding one that meets
your requirements. IMHO Harvest and Lycos are hard to beat.
(As an aside, Harvest brokers dedicated to geosciences would be a real
plus to the geoscience internet community. Anyone thinking of this?)
i) Koster's List of Beasties (over 30 web searches)
http://pubweb.nexor.co.uk/mak/doc/robots/active.html
ii) Harvest (look for brokers)
http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/
- Harvest Broker Query Web Home Pages
http://town.hall.org/Harvest/brokers/www-home-pages
- Interface to the Harvest Server Registry, query by subject
http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/Harvest/brokers/hsr/query.html
iii) Lycos - home page
http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu
- the big catalog search (>5.07 million web pages)
http://query6.lycos.cs.cmu.edu/lycos-form.html
- the small catalog search (435k web pages)
http://agent6.lycos.cs.cmu.edu/lycos-form.html
iv) Jumpstation II
http://www.stir.ac.uk/jsbin/jsii
v) The Web Crawler
http://webcrawler.cs.washington.edu/WebCrawler/WebQuery.html
vi) The WWW Worm
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWWW.html
vii) The Searchable WWW Catalog
http://cuiwww.unige.ch/w3catalog
viii) The RBSE URL Search
http://rbse.jsc.nasa.gov/eichmann/urlsearch.html
ix) The WWW Acronym Server
http://curia.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html
x) The All In One Search Engine Page
This is from Albany Net, maintained by William Cross. It has assorted
search engines for various catagories (WWW, People, News etc).
http://www.albany.net/~wcross/all1.srch.html
xi) Search Engines from the BBC
This page is similar in concept to the All In One Search Engine Page.
http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/babbage/iap.html
xii) Collection of Index and Forms based search engines from Telstra
http://www.telstra.com.au/meta/search.html
xiii) Nexor CUSI Services Gateway
http://pubweb.nexor.co.uk/public/cusi/doc/list.html
xiv) University of Geneva CUI/W3 Page
http://cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html
xv) University of Geneva Search Forms Page
http://cuiwww.unige.ch/search-form.html
xvi) SearchPlex, Collection of Searches from Oimage
http://www.oimage.com/tools/search.html
5b. Gopher Jughead Searches
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Jughead are searches of the upper level menus of gopher servers. To
find out more about jughead, take a look at the Washington & Lee
Jughead Information:
gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/00/gophers/jughead
Some sites offering jughead searches include:
gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:3002/7
gopher://veronica.cc.keio.ac.jp:2347/7-tl
gopher://psi.com:2347/7-tl
gopher://gopher.bham.ac.uk:3000/7
5c. Gopher Veronica Searches
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To find out more about Veronica searches and gopher, look at the
following two documents:
How to Query Veronica:
gopher://futique.scs.unr.edu:70/00/veronica/how-to-query-veronica
The Veronica FAQ
gopher://futique.scs.unr.edu:70/00/veronica/veronica-faq
Some sites with Veronica searches include:
gopher://gopher2.tc.umn.edu/Other%20Gopher%20and%20Information
%20Servers/Veronica
gopher://gopher.psi.com:2347/7
gopher://nysernet.org:2347/7
gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/11/gophers/veronica
gopher://archie.au:2347/7
5d. Gopher WAIS Searches
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WAIS servers hold searchable databases. WAIS stands for Wide Area
Information Servers. Some sites that have WAIS searches include:
gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/11/internet/wais/wais-sources
gopher://gopher.brown.edu:70/11/usr/wais
gopher://chico.rice.edu:70/11/OtherGophers/WAIS
gopher://pinus.slu.edu/Wide%20Area%20Information%20Services
%20databases
gopher://gopher-gw.micro.umn.edu:70/11/WAISes
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6) Special Earth Sciences Connections
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Some special Earth Science Web connections include:
i) The Bulletin of Global Volcanism Network
http://nmnhgoph.si.edu/gvn.html
ii) Geology and Geophysics Number Crunchers Forum:
http://www.glg.ed.ac.uk/crunch
iii) IRIS EOS Volcanogy Team's Home Page:
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/eos/
iv) The US Environmental Protection Authority
http://www.epa.gov/
v) NOAA Geosciences Lab:
http://www.grdl.noaa.gov/
vi) Altimetry Atlas of Indian and Atlantic Oceans by Delft University
http://dutlru8.lr.tudelft.nl/
vii) Hydro Atlas of the Southern Oceans from Alfred Wegener Institute:
http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/
viii) Plate Motion Calculator for calculating plate motions:
http://manbow.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tamaki-html/plate_motion.html
ix) Interactive Hydrographic Map from the Levitus' 1982 data set:
http://www.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/fujio/Levitus-map.html
x) The Virtual Earth, an Introduction to the WWW for Earth Scientists
http://wombat.es.mq.edu.au/0c:/v_earth.htm|/
xi) The Geosciences Information Group from the UK Geol. Soc.
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Geol/gig/gig.html
xii) Scott's Earth Sciences Site of the Week
http://agcwww.bio.ns.ca/misc/geores/sotw/sotw.html
xiii) An Animation of the Rotating Earth
http://agcwww.bio.ns.ca/ (look under "Scientific Info")
xiv) Earthqhake Locator from Bruce Gittings and Edinburgh University
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/quakes/quakes.html
xv) Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/
--- RIDGE Multi Beam Synthesis Project for bathymetry data
http://imager.ldeo.columbia.edu
xvi) The Electronic Volcano, edited by Barabara DeFelice & Richard Stoiber
http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/rox/volcanoes/elecvolc.html
xvii) Computer Orientated Geological Society (COGS)
http://www.csn.net/~tbrez
xviii) The Australian National Geoscientific Information System (@ngis)
http://www.agso.gov.au/information/ngis.html
- Questions and Answers on @ngis, plus Australian Links
http://www.agso.gov.au/information/ngis/angisfaqs.html
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7) Sites of Related Interest
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7a. Distributed Active Archive Centers
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NASA's EOSDIS program have a number of Web sites which provide researches
with access to the NASA Earth Science Data Collection. These are the
Distributed Active Archive Centers, or DAACs.
The main EOSDIS-DAAC Home Page:
http://eos.nasa.gov/
The Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) provides directory-level
information for NASA's EOSDIS program. It also has directory-level
metadata searches. It is located at:
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov
The other DAACs include:
i) EROS DAAC (land processes)
http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/landdaac.html
ii) CIESIN-SEDAC (socioeconomic data & applications for human dimensions
of global environmental change)
http://www.ciesin.org/IC/SEDAC/SEDAC.html
iii) Goddard Space Flight Center (global biosphere, atmospheric dynamics
& geophysics)
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/
iv) Langley Research Center (radiation budget, tropospheric chemistry,
clouds & aerosols)
http://eosdis.larc.nasa.gov/
v) Marshall Space Flight Center (hydrologic cycle)
http://wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov
vi) NOAA Satellite Active Archive (satellite data)
http://ns.noaa.gov/saa/homepage.html
vii) National Snow & Ice Data Center (snow, ice, cryosphere and climate)
http://eosims.colorado.edu:1733
viii) Oak Ridge National Lab (biogeochemical dynamics)
http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/
ix) Physical Oceanography DAAC (Topex/Poseiden images, AVHRR Pathfinder
data set, oceanography)
http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov
--- ftp site at:
ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/pub
x) Oceanography from Thoen and Smith's ORES
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/ocean/index.html
7b. Environmental Sites
-----------------------
i) ERIN, The Australian Environmental Resources Information Network:
http://kaos.erin.gov.au/erin.html
ii) EnviroWeb
http://envirolink.org/
iii) Environmental Resource Center
http://ftp.clearlake.ibm.com/ERC/HomePage.html
(includes a search of WAIS Environmental databases
http://ftp.clearlake.ibm.com/ERC/wais.html)
iv) The Disaster Research Newsletter from Natural Hazards Research &
Applications Center
http://lorax.geog.scarolina.edu/geogdocs/envdocs/enviro.html
v) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/
vi) INTERA Inc., good links to other sites, plus software index
http://www.nmia.com/~interags/home/home.html
vii) The NGDC Natural Hazards Data Site
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/hazards.html
7c. GIS, Satellite and Mapping Sites
------------------------------------
i) Internet GIS and RD Information Sites
ftp:///gis.queensu.ca/pub/gis/docs/gissites.html
ii) Digital Map Library at Queens University
http://gis.queensu.ca/pub/www/dml.html
iii) Internet Resources for Geography and GIS
http://abacus.bates.edu/~nsmith/General/Resources-GIS.html
iv) University of Edinburgh, Dept. of Geography, GIS Home Page:
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/gishome.html
-- with other pages for Acces Map Preparation:
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/pexe/dp
-- Atlas Application:
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/pip/atlas.html
-- List of GIS WWW Servers
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/giswww.html
v) Sol Katz's Detailed Meta-Data Home Page, an excellent site
ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/nsdi.html
vi) Virtually Hawaii, at SOEST.
http://www.satlab.hawaii.edu/space/hawaii/
vi) GIS Resources
http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~deharris/gis.html
vii) On-Line Bibliographies at OSU Dept. Geography
http://thoth.sbs.ohio-state.edu/resources.html
-- On-line GIS Master Bibliography
http://thoth.sbs.ohio-state.edu/osugisbib/wais.html
-- Map Projection Bibliography
http://thoth.sbs.ohio-state.edu/snyderbib
-- SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Database
http://www.siggraph.org/library/bibliography/bibliography.html
viii) GeoWEB Project
http://wings.buffalo.edu/geoweb/
ix) Distributed Spatial Data Library of Australian Mapping (at ERIN)
http://www.erin.gov.au/dsdl/dsdl.html
x) Auslig (Australian Surveying & Land Information Group)
http://www.auslig.gov.au/welcome.html
xi) The Center fo Advanced Spatial Technologies - one of the best GIS sites
http://www.cast.uark.edu/main.html
-- Info on GIS resources including a map base querying system
http://www.cast.uark.edu/d.cast/related.html
-- Links to Many Spatial Data sets and Clearinghouse for Subject Orientated
Resource Guides
http://www.cast.uark.edu/~sp/
xii) Geography and GIS from Thoen and Smith's ORES
http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/gis/index.html
xiii) GIS and RS Sites from FAD Dep. Geographical Sc Utrecht University
http://www.frw.ruu.nl/nicegeo.html
xiv) Frank Smiths GIS Web Pages, extensive collection of web sites
http://www.io.com/~frank/gis.html
xv) GIS and the Internet maintained by Matthias Werner
http://www.bio-geo.uni-karlsruhe.de/gis/gis.htm
-- English language version
http://www.bio-geo.uni-karlsruhe.de/gis/gis-engl.htm
xvi) Web/GIS Links from B. Thoen
http://www.gisnet.com/gis/webgis.html
7d. Oceanography Sites
----------------------
i) Ocean Information Center, OCEANIC Home Page
http://diu.cms.udel.edu/
ii) Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo
http://www.ori.o-tokyo.ac.jp/
iii) National Oceanic Data Center
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/
iv) NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Oceans AVHRR SST Data
http://sst-www.jpl.nasa.gov
v) The Satellite Oceanography Lab at SOEST, U. of Hawaii at Manoa
http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu
vi) Oceanography Links to the World Wide Web at Uni. British Columbia
http://www.ocgy.ubc.ca/oceanography.links.html
7e. Paleontology and Museums
----------------------------
i) The Museum of Paleontology at U. Cal., Berkeley
http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/
-- List of Natural History Resources (museums, exhibits, journals etc)
http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/subway/nathist.html
-- Other Museum Collection Catalogs
http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/collections/other.html
ii) The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology
http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/VT/tyrrell/
-- Other Paleontology Web Sites
http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/VT/tyrrell/websites.html
iii) The Dino Exhibit from Honolulu Community College
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/dinos/dinos.1.html
iv) Dino Russ's Page
http://jacobson.isgs.uiuc.edu/
v) Hadrosaurus Foulkii
http://tigger.jvnc.net/~levins/hadrosaurus.html
vi) The Museum On-Line Resource Review by the Overall Knowledge Co. Inc.
http://gate.okc.com/morr/
vii) Science Education On-line (a collection of interactive science museums)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs/usr/mwm/www/sci.html
viii) The Radiolarian Page (concerned with the Canadian Cordillera)
http://mindlink.net/fabrice_cordey/rad.htm
ix) Recent and Fossil Bryozoa
http://www.civgeo.rmit.edu.au/bryozoa/bryozoa.html
x) Catalog of Bryozoan Types in the Swedish Museum
http://www.nrm.se/
vi) The Electronic Prehistoric Shark Museum
http://turnpike.net/emporium/C/celestial/epsm.htm
vii) The Berne Natural History Museum
http://www-nmbe.unibe.ch/
7f. Petrology and Mineralogy
----------------------------
i) Ecole des Mines de Paris
http://cri.ensmp.fr/mineral/
ii) Berne's Museum of Natural History, Mineralogy and Petrology
http://nmbe0.unibe.ch/abtew/minpetrcoll.html
iii) The Petrographic Workshop, Physical Science Learning Center
http://pong.igpp.ucla.edu/pet/pet_intro.html
iv) The Norwegian Rockhound
http://www.uio.no/~hansjb/index.html
v) The Clausthal Mineral Collection
http://www.immr.tu-clausthal.de/labs/mincoll.html
vi) Bob's Rock Shop (I couldn't think where else to put this one)
http://www.rtd.com/~bkeller/rockshop/rockshop.html
-- Jewels from the World Wide Web
http://www.rtd.com/~bkeller/rockshop/linklist.html
7g. Other Sites
---------------
i) NSF Geosciences UNIDATA
http://atm.geo.nsf.gov/
ii) NOAA/NGDC Data Center Home Page
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
-- National Climatic Data Center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ncdc.html
-- National Oceanic Data Center
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/
-- Environmental Services Section
http://esdim.noaa.gov/
iii) Computational Fluid Dynamics Resources Online
http://eru.dd.chalmers.se/~f88jl/CFD/cfd_online.html
iv) Rocknet, Rock Mechanics
http://sair019.energylan.sandia.gov:70
v) Groundwater Remediation Project
http://gwrp.cciw.ca
vi) InterRidge Web Page (for mid-ocean ridges)
http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dgl0zz1/
vii) Groundwater Modelling Software Internet Resources at BYU (Steve Owens)
http://www.et.byu.edu/~geos/staff/owens/groundwater.html
viii) Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Sources at U. Texas, Austin
http://www.pe.utexas.edu/Dept/Reading/petroleum.html
ix) Other Antarctic Science Survers maintained by ICAIR, NZ
http://icair.iac.org.nz/science/others.html
x) Australian Resouces Links - links to AGSO, CSIRO's divisions plus more
http://www.csu.edu.au/links/resources.html
xi) The Geo Exchange - list of applied and commercial geoscience sites
http://giant.mindlink.net/geo_exchange/index.html
xii) The Physical Science Learning Center
http://pong.igpp.ucla.edu
xiii) Web Elements (version 2) by Mark Winter at Sheffield
http://www2.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/web-elements/web-elements-home.html
-- The Interactive Calculator (isotope patterns and elemental percentages)
http://www-mac.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/web-elements/isotope.script
-- Element Percentages
http://www-mac.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/web-elements/percent.script
xiv) Los Alamos National Lab. Periodic Table of the Elements
http://www-c8.lanl.gov/infosys/html/periodic/periodic-main.html
xv) Statistical Courses with Home Pages - compiled by Tony Rossini
http://www.biostat.washington.edu/~arossini/stat-services/courses/
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8. FAQs and Resource Guides
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8a. FAQs from the MIT Archive
-----------------------------
FAQs that have been approved by the *.answers moderators are archived at
Michigan Institute of Technology RTFM server. The following are earth science
related FAQs:
i) Scott Guthery's Petroleum Resources FAQ
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/petroleum-resources
ii) Lisa Nyman's GIS FAQ
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geography/infosystems-faq
iii) Ilana Stern's sci.geo.meteorology FAQ
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/weather/data/part1
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/weather/data/part2
iv) Ilana Stern's Science Data Formats FAQ
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/sci-data-formats
v) Spencer Ramshaw's sci.geo.geology FAQ
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/contents
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/glossary
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/introduction
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/faq
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/appendices
8b. Hypertext Resource Guides
-----------------------------
i) Bill Thoen's ORES Document (June, 1994 version)
(The latest ORES by Bill Thoen and Ted Smith can be found is section 3a)
http://www.englib.cornell.edu/geology_resources/ORES/earthscience.html
ii) Geoscience's FAQs from Ohio State Uni
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/sci/geo/top.html
iii) sci.geo.petroleum FAQ (Scott Guthery's resource guide list is
comprehensive)
http://www.glg.ed.ac.uk/~ajsw/doc/sci.geo.petroleum_FAQ.html
iv) Ilana Stern's sci.data.format FAQ
http://fits.cv.nrao/traffic/scidataformats/faq.html
v) Ilana Sterns sci.geo.meteorology FAQ
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/weather/top.html
vi) McDermott's GIS Sites
ftp://gis.queensu.ca/pub/gis/docs/gissites.html
vii) Shane & Murnion's GIS Userguide to Tools
http://jupiter.qub.ac.uk/pub/GIS/GIS.html
viii) Scott Yanoff's Special Internet Connections
http://www.uwm.edu/Mirror/inet.services.html
ix The Clearinghouse for Subject Orientated Internet Resource Guides:
http://http2.sils.umich.edu/~lou/chome.html
x) Lisa Nyman's GIS FAQ
http://www.census.gov/geo/gis/faq-index.html
xi) Una Smith's BioGuide
gopher://president.oit.unc.edu:70/11/../.pub/academic/biology/ecology
%2bevolution/bioguide
xii) Jorg Schulz-Rojahn FAQ On-line Earth Science Journals
http://gwrp.cciw.ca/internet/journals.html
xiii) Satellite Imagery FAQ by Nick Kew et al
http://www.geog.nottingham.ac.uk/remote/satfaq.html
xiv) Documents and FAQ's section in heading heading in ORES (some of these
may not yet be posted, but they will be).
- Geography and GIS
http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/gis/faqs.html
- Oceanography
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/ocean/faqs.html
- Geology (General)
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geology/faqs.html
- Volcanology
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/volcano/faqs.html
- Geochemsitry
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geochem/faqs.html
- Geophysics
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geophx/faqs.html
- Hydrology
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/hydo/faqs.html
- Paleontology
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/paleo/faqs.html
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9. Announcements, New Sites and News Groups
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Magazine style web sites, various internet based organisations
and other services provide a summary of what's new on the net
which have been geaned from various news groups and mailing lists.
Also included are sites with FAQ's and usenet news groups.
These include:
i) WebNews
http://twinbrook.cis.uab.edu:70/webNews.80
ii) Internaut
http://www.zilker.net/users/internaut/index.html
iii) Matilda in Cyberspace
http://snazzy.anu.edu/Matilda/start.html
iv) Exploring Internet Resources at Washington and Lee
gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/11/internet
v) The NETLink Server
gopher://honor.uc.wlu.edu:1020/1
vi) Oxford University Libraries Automation Service WWW Server
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/
vii) HipLink, hot list archive of comp.infosystems.www.announce
http://rznext01.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/HipLinc
viii) All In One Search Engine Page for News
http://www.albany.net/~wcross/all1srch.html#News
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10) Listservs and Listserv Information
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10a) General Information and Searching
For a userguide on Listservs by the EARN Organisation:
http://www.earn.net/lug/notice.html
To search out listservs, mailing lists and the like try:
i) Washington and Lee
gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/11/internet
ii) Presbytarian College Gopher Server
gopher://cs1.presby.edu:70/11/net-resources/mailing-lists
iii) UK's Mailbase Gopher Server
gopher://nisp.ncl.ac.uk:70/11/
10b) Listeserv's in Geoscientific Areas from ORES
(Note that some documents may not yet be posted).
- Geography and GIS
http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/gis/mail.html
- General Geology
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geology/mail.html
- Geochemistry
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geochem/mail.html
- Hydrology
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/hydro/mail.html
- Paleontology
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/paleo/mail.html
- Volcanology
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/volcano/mail.html
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11. Library Servers
-------------------
i) LibWeb from Washington University
http://www.lib.washington.edu/~tdowling/libweb.html
ii) U. Waterloo Scholarly Societies Project
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html
iii) BIBSYS Search
http://www.bibsys.no/search/pube.html
iv) University of Saskatchewan Libraries Information System
http://moondog.usask.ca/
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12. Commercial Organisations
----------------------------
12a) Mining/Expolration Information and Newspapers
i) Info-Mine: Mining Info On-Line by Robertson Info-Data Inc.
http://www.info-mine.com
ii) MineNet by Tensor Technology
http://www.microserve.net:80/~doug/
iii) The Investor Channel
http://www.wimsey.com/Magnet/mc/index.html
iv) The Northern Miner
http://www.southam.com/northernminer/
12b) Mapping and GIS
i) Geospatial Data Site by Core Software Technology
http://www.coresw.com
ii) GIS World Magazine
http://www.gisworld.com
iii) DeLorme Maps
http://www.delorme.com
iv) Intergraph Online
http://www.intergraph.com/
v) ESRI
http://www.esri.com/
vi) List of Commercial GIS Sites
http://lorax.geog.scarolina.edu/geodocs/otherdocs/comm.html
vii) Argus Technologies - Desktop Mapping
http://www.tcel.com/~argus
12c) General Geology Information
i) The Fossil Company
http://www.gold.net:80/users/dt89/
- Comprehensive links to other geology sites
http://www.gold.net:80/users/dt89/sites.html
- Picture Gallery of Fossils
http://www.gold.net:80/users/dt89/gallery.html
- Information on UK Geology
http://www.gold.net:80/users/dt89/uk_geology.html
ii) Geoscience Ltd - deep geotechnical services for Oil/Gas
http://www.demon.co.uk/geosci/
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13. Information on Bulletin Boards
-----------------------------------
i) GeoInfo Network
http://www.csn.net/~bthoen/geoinfo/index.html
-- List of GeoInfo BB's
http://www.csn.net:80/~bthoen/geoinfo/gi-bbs.html
ii) Boardwatch Magazine
http://www.boardwatch.com
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14. Journals and Bulletins
--------------------------
Many journals and bulletins have started appearing on the Web, either
as text or html documents. Some of the pointers include:
i) Jorg Schulz-Rojahn FAQ On-line Earth Science Journals (sedimentary
and petroleum bias)
http://gwrp.cciw.ca/internet/journals.html
ii) Pointers to Journals and Periodicals in ORES (some of these
may not yet be posted, but they will be).
- Geography and GIS
http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/gis/journals.html
- Oceanography
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/ocean/journals.html
- Geology (General)
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geology/journals.html
- Volcanology
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/volcano/journals.html
- Geochemsitry
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geochem/journals.html
- Geophysics
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geophx/journals.html
- Hydrology
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/hydo/journals.html
- Paleontology
http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/paleo/journals.html
iii) The Geological Society of America
http://www.aescon.com/geosociety/pubs/bulletin.htm
iv) Journal of Metamorphic Geology
http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk/www/jmp/press.html
v) Geoscience Information Group of The Geological Society Newsletter
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Geol/gig/news/newsletters.html
vi) Disaster Research Newsletter from the Natural Hazards Research
and Applications Center in Boulder, Colorado
http://lorax.geog.scarolina.edu/geogdocs/envdocs/enviro.html
vii) Elsevier Press - Catalog on the Internet, Physical & Environmental
Sciences
http://www.elsevier.nl/catalog/SA2/Menu.html
viii-a) The GeoRef newsletter
http://agi.umd.edu/agi/agi.html/georef/geonews.html
viii-b) Contents and information on Geotimes Magazine
gopher://agi.umd.edu:71/11/Geotimes
ix) The Hyperspectrum Newsletter - imaging spectroscopy for remote
sensing, environmental monitoring, military target detection etc
http://www.techexpo.com/opto-knowledge/hyperspectrum
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15. Electronic Preprints and Supplements
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A number of academic/research papers are appearing on the Web prior
to and after publication. The first two sites discuss various issues
pertaining to electronic publishing.
i) Journal of Electronic Publishing (University of Michigan Press)
http://sansfoy.hh.lib.umich.edu:80/jep/
ii) Discussion of Electronic Publishing Issues via MIT
http://www-cmpo.mit.edu/met_links/copyright.html
iii) Supplements to Atmospheric and Oceanic Publications (at MIT)
http://www-cmpo.mit.edu/met_links/index.html
iv) Information About Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences E-Prints
http://www.gfdl.goc/~smg/pointers/announcement.html
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16. Geological Surveys and Organisations
-----------------------------------------
i) Australian Geological Survey Organisation
http://www.agso.gov.au/
ii) British Geological Survey
http://192.171.148.40/bgs//w3/wm/home.html
-- Geomagnetism Group
http://ub.nmh.ac.uk
iii) Geological Survey of Canada
http://emr1.emr.ca/gsc/
-- Geological Survey of Canada, Atlantic
http://agcwww.bio.ns.ca/
iv) Geological Survey of Finland
http://www.gsf.fi/
v) Geological Society of America
http://www.aescon.com/geosociety/index.htm
vi) UK Geological Society
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Geol/gig/gig.html
vi) AAPG
http://www.geobyte.com/AAPG
vii) Geological Survey of Japan
http://www.aist.go.jp:7128/
viii) American Geological Institute
http://agi.umd.edu/agi/agi.html
ix) The Paleontological Society
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/paleo/homepage.html
x) The American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists
http://www.geology.utoronto.ca/AASP
xi) The British Antarctic Survey
http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk
xii) The American Geophysical Union
http://earth.agu.org/kosmos/homepage.html
xiii) Americal Association of Petroleum Geologists
http://www.NeoSoft.com/aapg/
xiv) The Association of Polish Geomorphologists
http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~sgp/welcome.html
-- The Virtual Geomorphologist
http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~sgp/gw/gw.htm
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Part 2: Software and Software Sites
This file was last updated on 30th August, 1995.
This faq is posted to the following news groups:
sci.geo.geology
sci.geo.hydrology
sci.geo.oceanography
comp.infosystems.gis
You can obtain the most recent version of this faq from:
i) the sci.answers, comp.answers or news.answers news group.
ii) send mail to: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line
in the body of the message -
send usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/geosci-resources/part2
iii) by anonymous ftp to:
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I also keep two web pages, which are basically the same as the info on the
faq, but with more info. Try:
The Virtual Earth: http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/v_earth.htm
The Soft Earth: http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/s_earth.htm
This faq is not to be used for commercial gain.
Phillip Ingram
pingram@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/pingram.html
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This is part 2 of a 2 part FAQ on using the Web to obtain geosciences
information on the Internet. This part deals with software and related
data which would be of interest to geosciences.
The chances are, if you use this faq, you will be transferring software
from one computer to another for the purpose of running the software.
Many of these programs will have been compressed and/or encoded by one or more
of several techniques for storage and transfer purposes. The method
of compression/encoding is indicated by the file extension - the (usually)
three characters after the "." in the file name. The most common compression/
encoding schemes are:
.zip - pkzip is a dos standard compressor/archiver. Also on unix.
.lzh - pc compression from lha archiver
.zoo - zoo.exe is a compressor/archiver
.Z - unix compression program
.tar - unix tape archive.
.hqx - binhex, binary to 8 bit ascii encoded, predominantly for the Mac,
but pc versions do exist. Needs binhex4
.sea - self extracting archive for the Macintosh
.sit - stuffit compression for the Macintosh, found in binhex4.
.gz - gzip is a Unix compression, pc versions as well.
.exe - self extracting archive, can be created from pkzip and lha.
Most of these are available from popular ftp sites such as Sumex-aim,
oak.oakland etc.
A word of warning for Mac users, Mac binary files are stored differently
on a Unix machine than on a Mac (and Dos, VMS etc). Downloading a Mac
binary file (.bin, .sit etc) to a unix box which has not been encoded will
result in an unusable file. It is something to do with Unix zero filling
some of the unused bits in the Mac binary word.
0. CONTENTS
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0.1 General Software Sites and Registers
0.2 Geology
0.2.1 Mineralogy/Petrology
0.2.2 Structural Geology
0.2.3 Marine Geology
0.2.4 Hydrology
0.2.5 Sedimentary Geology
0.3 Geophysics
0.4 Oceanography
0.5 Mathematical/Statistics/Geostatistics
0.6 GIS and Mapping
0.6.1 General GIS/Mapping
0.6.2 Cartographic Conversions and Transformations
0.6.3 Arc/Info AML Code
0.6.4 Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
0.6.5 Specialised GIS/Mapping Techniques
0.7 Map Data
0.8 Graphing/Plotting
0.9 Commercial Developers
Alterations in July, 1995
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- added SSEC Visualisation Project
- added DLSR
- added Lynx Geosystems
- added MELTS software
- deleted GSLIB site
- added IAMGs web site
- added Petroway site.
- added Harvest PC Software Broker
Alterations in August, 1995
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- added Richard B. Winston's page on Groundwater Models
- added Able Software
- added epci3 software
- added J. Banta's Coordinate Transform Page
- added GSLIB site at stanford
- added Intera Inc. software links page
- added ECGL software descriptions page
- added Golden Software site
- added ConSolve Inc.
- added linkwinds software
- added Software for Rockhounds page
- added Chemistry software sites
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1. GENERAL SOFTWARE SITES
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This section includes sites that have an assortment of software of
interest to geoscientists, and sites with hotlists to other sites.
i) http://www.acs.oakland.edu/oak.html
The Oakland Software Repository has a large collection of MSDos,
Windows, Macintosh and Unix shareware utility and specific software.
-- http://www.acs.oakland.edu/cgi-bin/shase
Shase is the The Virtual Shareware Library to search the
OAK repository and other popular archive sites.
ii) http://town.hall.org/Harvest/brokers/pcindex/query.html
Harvest PC Software Broker, search the descriptors of over 34,000 PC software
distributions from 6 major public archives.
iii) http://www.gdb.org/DAN/softsearch/graph-links.html
Archives of Graphics Software and Databases is a hot-list of graphical
software sites.
iv) ftp://iamg.org
The IAMG ftp Site has algorithms and source code of programs published
in Computers and Geosciences (ftp://iamg.org/pub/CG) and Mathematical
Geology (ftp://iamg.org/pub/MG). The IAMG also have a Web Server
(http://www.iamg.org)
v) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/
COGS, or Computer Orientated Geological Software archives of MS Dos
and Macintosh software, many include source code. Categories include
COGS disks, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Graphics, Hydrology, Landsat,
MOSS, Mapping, Mineralogy, Mining, Oil & Gas.
vi) gopher://dillon.geo.utep.edu:70/11EarthScienceRes/Software
GeoGopher Archives of Earth Science software at the University of Texas,
El Paso, has a collection of Dos based software for the geosciences and
connections to other sites.
vii) http://coyote.csusm.edu/cwis/winworld/winworld.html
The Windows Shareware Archive by the CSUSM Technical Services is a great
site for general Windows applications. Take a browse, there are some
software of interest for Geosciences.
viii) http://camel.inggeo.tu-clausthal.de/eises/geosoftware-ftp.html
The Software Page at the Institute of Geology and Paleontology (EISES)
has some Dos/Windows software, some of which are mentioned elsewhere
at other sites. Software includes GeoVu (a NGDC Windows GIS/RS data
visualisation program), Landscape Explore (Windows program to translate
a 2D map into a 3D model), and GeoEAS (the EPA's geostatistical software).
ix) http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geology/data.html
Bill Thoen's and Ted Smith's Data and Software Resources from their
on-line ORES for general geology.
x) http://posc.org/
Petrotechnical Open software Corporation is a supplier of standard interfaces
for technical exploration and production software for the Petroleum industry.
It operates as a Not For Profit membership organisation. This site
has information.
xi) http://calvin.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu/geo/software/software_list
Some general geology software, mostly for the Mac. Software includes
Amphbase, Crystal 2.29 and CrystalView, Emp-amph, Hyperform,
Hornblende-plagioclase geothermometry, Image, Latticemaker,
Mac Molecule 1.7, MMII, Ortep, Pcwateq, P-T-t programs and Stereonet 4.9a
xii) http://www.albany.net/~wcross/all1srch.html#Software
The All In One Search Engine by William Cross has lists many search
engines for various catagories. This connection is for software.
xiii) http://pubweb.nexor.co.uk/archie.html
ArchiePlex is an Archie Gateway to the World Wide Web. It can be used
to locate files on anonymous ftp sites around the world. This link gives
the most upto date list of ArchiePlex servers. There are forms based services
and those without forms.
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2. GEOLOGY
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2.1 Mineralogy/Petrology
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i) ftp://mac.archive.umich.edu/Crystal
Crystal and
ftp://mac.archive.umich.edu/CrystalView
CrystalView are both Crystallography software for the MacIntosh by
Thomas Kosel.
ii) ftp://sparky2.esd.mun.ca/pub/geoprogs
Daryl Clarke's NewPet Software is a geochemical/igneous petrology data
handling program which includes ternary plots. MS-Dos and Shareware.
Also here are rose1 (rose plotting Windows prog by Thompson & Thompson),
triplot (ternary plotting prog by Baodke and Thompson), quickplot and
amphibol.
iii-a) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/Mineralogy
Mineralogy directory from COGS
iii-b) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/Geochemistry
Geochemistry directory from COGS
iv) http://www.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/docs/FAU/fakultaet/natlll/geo_min/geologie
/soft.html
Crystallography software for Windows written by S. Krumm. Programs include
Winfit (profile analysis of x-ray reflections), WinStruct (calculation
of 001 x-ray patterns, structure factors and LP factors for discrete clay
minerals), WinQ-Fac ("Q" descriptor for mixed layer clays), Atterberg and
Centrifuge (calculate settling times).
v) http://www.unige.ch/crystal/prg-index.html
This is an alphabetised hot-list of assorted software available
for crystallography. Programs and platforms are varied. Software
includes ABSORB, BIOMOL, Ca.R.Ine, CrystalMaker and CrystalView, Diamond,
Powder Cell and more.
vi) ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/geochemical/
The geochemical directory from the Environmental Hydrosystems ftp server
contains NewPet, QuickPlot, amphibol, ebeam, elements.
vii) http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geochem/data.html
Bill Thoen's and Ted Smith's Data and Software Resources from their
on-line ORES for geochemistry.
viii) ftp://helios.cr.usgs.giv/ftp/statpac.dos and
ftp://helios.cr.usgs.giv/ftp/statpac.unx
Statpac for Unix and Dos from the USGS
ix) http://msgmac.geology.washington.edu/MeltsWWW/Melts.html
Melts is a software package for the modelling of crystallisation of
magmatic systems developed by the University of Washington. It
is available for a number of Unix platforms.
x) http://www.rtd.com/~bkeller/rockshop/software.html
Software for Rockhounds from Bob's Rock Shop has links to Mineral Mastery
(Dos mineral identification software), Gemstone, The Mineral Database and
Minlog System.
xi) http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/lists/chem-software.html
Chemistry software sites maintained by Mark Winter. Some of these may
be useful for geochemistry.
2.2 Structural Geology
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i) ftp://darwin.ibg.uit.no/pub/stereo/zip
Stereo v3.0 is a complete stereonet package for Windows. Get the
file stereo30.zip. It is by Per Ivar Steinsund and is shareware.
ii) ftp://silver.geo.cornell.edu/pub/rwa_programs
Rick Allmendinger's structural programs for the MacIntosh are quite
well regarded. Included are FaultKin, Stereonet, MacStrat, MacStress,
MicroStructure and Structure_Movies.
iii) ftp://sparky2.esd.mun.ca/pub/geoprogs
Mainly geochem prog, but also here is quickplot, a stereonet program for
structural geology by van Everdingen and van Gool.
iv) http://131.252.71.35/faculty/kmc/foldfile.htm
High amplitude folding simulation software by Kenneth Cruikshank.
2.3 Marine Geology
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ia) ftp://ftp.nadn.navy.mil/pub/oceano/microdem
Microdem, includes the MGT subset for teaching marine geophysics,
is available from the US Naval Academy's ftp server.
ib) ftp://ftp.nadn.navy.mil/pub/oceano/oceanlab
Also available are a group of programs for oceanography including TS-Plot,
Waves, Tides, Duck, beach profiles, and marine geology.
2.4 Hydrology
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i) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/Hydrology
The Hydrology directory from COGS
ii) ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/
Environmental Hydrosystems Inc's ftp server has a comprehensive collection
of public domain software (Dos, Windows, some Unix) for groundwater,
porous media and environmental modelling. They have upgraded to high speed
digital lines so connectivity is greatly improved.
The main directories of interest for hydrology are:
ii-a) ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/aquifer_analysis/
aquifer_analysis directory contains ADEPT demo, PUMPIT, timelag,
hydros (classroom use only), taap, luftrisk plus others.
ii-b) ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/saturated_flow/
saturated_flow directory contains software such as 2dflow (demonstration),
MODFLOW (a modular 3D finite difference groundwater flow model) plus
utilities, MFLOP (a flow pattern program), HST3D (a 3D flow, heat and
solute transport model), SWIFTII (the Sandia Waste-Isolation Flow and
Transport Model for Fractured Media) plus others.
Other directories like /graphics, /groundwater_education could be of
special interest.
iii) http://gwrp.cciw.ca/internet/software.html
The Software for Groundwater Modelling and Analysis page by Andrew Piggott
has connections to both commercial and non-commercial software sites.
iv) http://199.227.7.95/ehisrvr.html
EnviroMod Software Server has environmental and hydrological software
connections.
v-a) http://www.et.byu.edu/~geos/staff/owens/groundwater.html#Models
The Groundwater Modelling department at Brigham Young Uni has an
extensive list/collection of groundwater modelling software, both commercial
and freebies. In the Models section can be found IGWMC (source code for
USGS models), CEAM from EPA, USGS Geochem models (Phreaqe and WATEQ4F),
2DFlow, PUMPIT, MCFIT plus others.
v-b) http://www.et.byu.edu/~geos/staff/owens/groundwater.html#PPP
In the Pre and Post Processes from BYU can be found links to Femmwater,
IRIS Explorer, Flow Analysis Software Toolkit, Khoros, SpyGlass and more.
vi) ftp://kilburn.keene.edu/Kilburn/ftp/GWM-L/
Source code for several of the USGS models.
vii) ftp://ccnet.com/users/aqualog/
Another location for PUMPIT - a Dos program which calculates drawdown,
identifies the capture zone and injection fronts etc.
viii) http://www.us.net/evisim/links.html
Environmental Simulations Inc. has software, services and information for
groundwater modelling. This connection is to their list of groundwater sites.
ix) http://scribe.geol.lsu.edu/rbwinston.html
Contains Dos executables and source code for Modflow and its related
programs (ModFlowP, ZoneBudget, ModPath, SteramLink), plus other software
such as Sutra (2D finite element gwater flow model), SutraInv (parameter
estimation for Sutra), MOC89 (solute transport and dispersion), Plasm (2D
finite difference gwater flow) and TypCurv.
x) http://www.nmia.com/~interags/free/fretxt.html
ftp access to several public domain software available at other sites.
-- http://www.nmia.com/~interags/index/indtxt.html
Intera Inc. also have a description index of software of interest to
hydrologists.
2.5 Sedimentary Geology
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i) gopher://strix.udac.uu.se:70/40/palun/fuzzim.sea.hqx
Fuzzim (stored as a binhexed self extracting archive) are Macintosh programs
for simulating large scale marginal deposition and erosion for
long time spans. It uses "fuzzy logic" for controlling the distribution
of sediment. It was written by Ulf Nordland and Magnus Silfversparre of
Uppsala University, Sweden.
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3. GEOPHYSICS
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i) ftp://pong.igpp.ucla.edu/pub/pbird
Thin Plate Finite Element Code developed by Peter Bird at UCLA since 1976
can be used to model the deformation of the lithosphere, form new tectonic
hypotheses, estimate long term seismic hazards and study plate rheology.
You should also mail Peter (pbird@ess.ucla.edu) to let him know
which files you copied and to be placed on the mail-list for updates.
Fortran source code is available.
ii) ftp://mantle.colorado.edu/pub/PaleoMag or
http://cires.colorado.edu/people/jones.craig/CHJ_Pmag_overview.html
PaleoMag software for the MacIntosh by Craig Jones. It supports
orthorhombic, equal area and J/J0 diagrams (total and component) of
individual sample demagnetisations, least squares fit of lines, planes,
circles to parts of demagnetisation curves.
Email Craig (cjones@mantle.colorado.edu) to be placed on the
mailing list for updates. Craig has also placed PaleoMag onto a web server,
plus an on-line manual.
iii) ftp://hilbert.mines.colorado.edu/pub/cwpcodes or
http://cwp.mines.colorado.edu:3852/
Seismic CWP/SU Package is geophysical seismic code for Unix machines
from the Center for Wave Phenomena.
iv) ftp://earth.eps.pitt.edu/pub
The World Paeo-Magnetic Database are databases and programs related
to paleomagnetism.
v) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/Geophysics
Geophysics directory from COGS
vi) http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geophx/data.html
Bill Thoen's and Ted Smith's Data and Software Resources from their
on-line ORES for geophysics.
vii) ftp://dmc.iris.washington.edu/pub/programs/sel/ibmpc
ftp://dmc.iris.washington.edu/pub/programs/sel/mac
ftp://dmc.iris.washington.edu/pub/programs/sel/sun
The IRIS Software Exchange Library ftp server has geophysical software
for pc, mac and sun platforms. Included in the pc directory are SEISMIC
(displays hypocenters of earthquakes for various map views from 1960 to
the present) and SUDS (Seismic Unified Data System). Under sun are SUDS,
Seismo_Display, cc2sac, evt2sac, evalresp, focmec, neic2tf and relish.
viii) ftp://ftp.cs.wits.ac.za/pub/general/geophys
Geophysical freeware for Dos written by Gordon Cooper. Includes Mag2dc
(magnetic forward modelling), Grav2dc (gravity forward modelling), GeoModel
(sim. mag & grav fwd modelling), VES (Schlumberger res modelling and
inversion), SignProc (prfile data filtering), PFproc (map data filtering,
strike filters, derivatives etc) and GravMap (map data filtering:
continuation, polynomial surface fits etc).
ix) ftp://garlock.wr.usgs.gov/pub/PROGRAMS
Some geophysical programs (for unix/vms) from Menlo Park ftp server.
Includes Paleo stress analysis by Andy Michael, 3D velocity model
determination and hypocenter location.
x) ftp://ftp.seismo.usbr.gov/pub/outgoing/epic3.tar.Z
Epic3 suite of progs are for Unix. They read the event CD-Roms (version 3)
from the NEIC ie hypo-center associated data plus the NEIC event catalog.
From Dan O'Connell and the Seismotectonics group of the US Bureau of
Reclamation.
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4. OCEANOGRAPHY
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i) http://www.aos.princeton.edu/htdocs.pom
POM is a sigma coordinate free surface, primitive equation ocean model
for Unix. It is distributed free to tertiary institutions for research
purposes. The code is available from the following ftp server:
ftp://ftp.gfdl.gov/pub/glm/
ii) http://www.gfdl/gov/MOM/MOMWWW.html
MOM (Unix) is a primitive equation general ocean circulation model for
exploring ocean and coupled air-sea applications over a wide range
of space and time scales. Source code is available from:
ftp://ftp.gfdl.gov/pub/GFDL_MOM/
iii) http://ftp://ahab.rutgers.edu/pub/spem/src/
SPEM is a 3D ocean circulation model for a variety of studies.
It uses horizontal boundary-fitted orthogonal coordinates, a vertical
bathymetry following sigma coordinate and solves 3D primitive equations.
Source code is available from:
ftp://ahab.rutgers.edu/pub/spem/src/
iv) http://www.ocgy.ubc.va/oceanography.links.html
University of British Colombia has links to assorted numerical models
(including the above) for oceanography. Look for the sections
On-Line Numerical Models and Source Code for Models Not Mentioned Above.
Model include FRAM, ECOM-si, POP, Spectral Element Shallow Water Equation
Model, Box Basin and Massively Parallel versions of Miami Isopycnic
Coordinate Ocean Model, MOMA, OCCAM/NWO and MICOM.
v) http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/ocean/data.html
Bill Thoen's and Ted Smith's Data and Software Resources from their
on-line ORES for oceanography.
vi) ftp://twinky.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/LinkWinds
LinkWinds (Linked Windows Interactive Data System) is developed by
NASA/JPL for interactive 2D and 3D graphical display of data. It runs
on SGI platforms under IRIX4 and IRIX5, and Sun under Solaris 2.4.
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5. MATHEMATICAL/STATISTICS/GEOSTATISTICS
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i) ftp://ulimin1.unil.ch/pub/geostat
Geostatistics software at the Inst. of Mineralogy at the University of
Lausanne, carries the US EPA GeoEAS geostatistical program (Dos),
a geostatistical tool box (Dos) and VarioWin, a windows set of programs
for 2D spatial data analsysis.
ii) http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/
The StatLib Archives has an extensive collection of statistical
software and algorithms. It is divided into a number of catagories
based upon the resources origin, eg apstat is for algorithms from
Applied Statistics, cmlib is the Core Mathematics Library from NIST
which has fortran code for lots of statistical and numerical
procedures, griffiths-hill has applied statistics algorithms contained in
the book by Griffith Hill, multi has an annotated directory and selected
algorithms on multi-variate analysis and clustering.
iii) http://www.netlib.org/
The Netlib Archives repository at UTK and ORNL carry a very extensive
collection of mathematical software. Some of the categories include
image, linpak, voronoi, fftpack, scilib, graphics and gnu. It is also
possible to do an Attribute/Value Data Base Search of the Netlib
repository (http://www.netlib.org/nse/netlib-query.html).
iv) ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopas
Numerical Recipes for Pascal are available from the Garbo archive. Get
the file nrpas13.zip. Be warned, this is over 300 Kb compressed and 772 Kb
uncompressed.
v) http://www-brad.geosc.uh.edu/software.htm
Software for Mathematical Geology at Houston University.
vi) http://www.gamma.rug.nl/sibyl.html
The Sibyl Database is a searchable database of information on statistical
software.
vii) ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/geostatistics/
The geostatistics directory from the Environmental Hydrosystems ftp server
contains software such as GeoEAS (the Geostatistical Environmental
Exposure Assessment Software from the US EPA), COSIM (performs
unconditional and co-conditional simulations), LOGEN (unconditional
simulations), ISIM3D (a 3D multiple indicator conditional simulation
program), GCOSIM3D (code for the generation of realisations of multiple
variates jointly correlated with a multiGaussian distribution), plus others.
viii) http://www.geosc.uh.edu/AnonSoftware.html
The ANON Web site at the University of Houston is for those interested
in mathematics, computers and geosciences. This link is their software
and modelling resources page with many connections.
ix) ftp://banach.stanford.edu/gslib/
Fortran code for the geostatistics package from Stanford University.
Authored by C.V. Deutsche and A.G.Journel. Is a .tar.Z file.
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6. GIS and Mapping
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Sections 6.3, 6.4 and 6.5 mainly deal with specialised mapping and GIS
techniques and software, of which I know very little. Consequently, I
took the reference to these sites from Bill Thoen's ORES,
figuring that his judgement will be better than mine on these subjects.
6.1 Mapping
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i) ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis
An assortment of Dos software for GIS and mapping, cartographic
transformations, raster to vector conversions and so on. It includes
programs like skmoss (replaces 4 programs in pcmoss), gctpc (Dos version
of general cartographic transformations), las (land analysis system),
pcglis (pc version of glis), dcw2dxf (dcw to dxf conversions) topo and
xglis. The site is maintained by Sol Katz.
ii) ftp://kiawe.soest.hawaii.edu/pub/gmt
Generic Mapping Tools is Unix software located at the Satellite
Oceanography Lab, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Manoa. It was developed
by Paul Wessel for map projections, spatial interpolation, contouring,
3D perspective, raster processing. Source code is in C and is designed
for Unix machines.
- Version 3.0 Beta of GMT is available, for information see:
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/soest/gmt.html
iii) ftp://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/software/topo
Topographic Analysis fortran source code.
iv) ftp://jupiter.drev.dnd.ca/pub/gis/vpfview
VPFView 1.1 is Unix software to view DCW data from the DMA's Digital
Chart of the World CD-ROM data set.
v) ftp://moon.cecer.army.mil/grass
GRASS GIS is a public domain GIS and image processing system for Unix
developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers.
vi) ftp://charon.er.usgs.gov/pub
MAPGEN/PLOTGEN is the code for a public domain graphics system.
The files are compressed-tar source files. Files include:
graphics-?.?.tar.Z: device independent vector graphics system
employed by the Mapgen/Plotgen system; mapgen.?.?.tar.Z is the mapgen/plotgen
system for plotting geographic and other data (requires pre-installed
'proj' and 'graphics'); xzoom.?.?.tar.Z is the previewer of mapgen/plotgen
graphic data.
vii) ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/Access_Tools
The National Geophysical Data Center ftp server has a number of
Dos based generic data analysis, display, compression, archival and
retrieval tools. Software includes FREEFORM, GeoVu and GeoDas.
viii) ftp://nmdpow9.er.usgs.gov/
The USGS Cartographic Software by the National Mapping Division of
the USGS provide data and supporting software for the national series
of base cartographic data. The software are for a variety of platforms.
ix-a) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/Landsat
The Landsat directory from COGS
ix-b) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/Moss
The Moss directory from COGS
ix-c) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/Mapping
The Mapping directory from COGS
x) gopher://137.111.94.83:70/59c%3a/software/pc/geology
A crude but quick contouring program for Dos using delauny triangulation
of x-y-z data is here as delauny.zip.
xi) ftp://oak.oakland.edu/simtel/msdos/mapping/
The Mapping directory of the Simtel mirror at Oakland contains various
mapping software for Dos. Included are topo300.zip (3-D topographic map
plotting program), emap100*.zip (the EPI Map program with utilities, and USA
coverage by counties), coordchg.zip (convert map coords dd.mm.ss<->dd.###)
and ozd101?.zip (OzGIS is a Dos Mapping program of census/GIS data).
xii) http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/gis/data.html
The GIS Data and Software page from Bill Thoen's and Ted Smith's On-Line
ORES.
xiii) ftp://ftp.esri.com/arcview1
Arcview 1.0 for Windows by ESRI is available from this ftp site. Be sure
to read the licence agreement.
xiv) http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html
ftp://iris.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/vis5d
ftp://iris.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/visad
The Space, Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at Uni. of Wisconsin-
Madison makes 2 software packages, Vis5D and VisAD, freely available. These
are scientific visualisation systems for a number of Unix workstations.
Both executables and source code is available. Vis5D has been setup so
output from atmosphere and ocean models can be linked to Web pages.
6.2 Cartographic Converters and Transformations
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i) ftp://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/software/gctpc
The General Cartographic Transformation Package is the c code for
various various cartographic conversions such as Lat/Long<--->UTM.
The C code was originally written for Unix.
-- ftp://isdres.er.usgs.gov/pub/usgs/gctp/
The older version, GCTP-II, is also available.
ii) ftp://charon.er.usgs.gov/pub/DOS-PROJ.4.2.2
PROJ is a Dos program for various cartographic conversions (lat/long-UTM).
-- ftp://charon.er.usgs.gov/pub/PROJ.4
Postscript documentation is available as *.ps.Z files (unix
compressed). The Unix version of PROJ is also here.
iii) http://www.epa.gov/region10/www/softlib.html
The U.S. EPA's dbf utility package (v5.5) is a set of programs for
converting between INFO and DBF as well as INFO and ASCII, DBF to point
coverage. They are programs tested on a number of Unix platforms, and run
with Arc/Info 6.1.1 or 7.0.2. The complete source code is also available.
iv) http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PC_PROD/pc_prod.html
Another site for UTM_Lat/Long conversions, but this software supposedly
allows for batch processing.
v) ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/geostatistics/BLMGIS/
The geostatistics directory from the Environmental Hydrosystems ftp server
contains the BLMGIS program for Dos. This performs coordinate conversions
between Geodetic (Lat/Long) and State Plane coordinate (SPC) systems
based on the North American Datum of 1927.
vi) http://www.connect.net/jbanta
John Banta's Corrdinate Transformation Page, contains Windows coordinate
conversion software, to convert lat/long and X/Y anywhere in the Northern
Hemisphere using the UTM projection, and anywhere in the US using US State
Plane projections. From the SeisSoft company.
6.3 Arc/Info AML Code
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i) ftp://dis2qvarsa.er.usgs.gov/amls
AMLs for ARC/INFO 5.0, 6.11
ii) ftp://dis2qvarsa.er.usgs.gov/data/giras
AMLs for GIRAS data.
iii) ftp://wigeo.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/acdgis-l/aml
Another AML site.
iv) ftp://wigeo.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/acdgis-l/sml
AML for PC Arc/Info.
v) ftp://ftp.esri.com/public/www/scripts
AMLs and SMLs from ESRI's ftp server
6.4 Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
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i) ftp://ftp.blm.gov/gis/microdem.zip
MicroDEM, Pascal programs to do things with DEM data (shareware).
ii) ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3
Splat at Indiana or
ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/msdos
Splat at NIC:
SPLAT is contouring software. Get the file SPLATSFX.EXE which is
a self-extracting archive.
iii) ftp://ahab.rutgers.edu/pub/gridpak
GRIDPAK is 3D gridding software for unix. Written in C, with makefiles
and uses mud2 version 3. Other applications include XCOAST2, an X-application
for drwaing grid boundaries of the (?US) coastline, and fine & coarse
resolutioncoastlines for xgrid, plus etopo5 bathymetry/topography data.
6.5 Specialised GIS/Mapping Techniques
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i) ftp://princeton.edu/pub/Graphics/RTNews/RTNv5n3.Z
Point in Polygon, Fastest Point on Polygon test by Eric Haines, in
Ray Tracing News, v5, no.3, Sept, 1992.
ii) ftp://ftp.mv.com/pub/ddj/dec94
Voroni Tesselations source code in article Spatial Data and the
Voroni Tesselations in Dr. Dobbs Journal, Dec. 1992.
iii) ftp://shelf.ersc.weic.edu/pub/
Linear Time Algorithm Program, the DOS executable of the code published
in IJGIS, 1993, Vol. 7, No. 6. Retrieve the file CHITVD.ZIP. Documentation
in CHITVD.DOC.
iv) ftp://netlib.att.com:netlib/voronoil/sweep2.Z
Theissen Polygons, C source code for calculating the vectors for
Theissen Polygons.
v) ftp://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/mccauley/grass/s.voroni
s.voroni: the GRASS module.
vi) ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SGI/MinMaxer
MinMaxer from NCSA is a triangulation method that does the
Delauny Triangulation.
vii) ftp://ftp.mv.com/pub/ddj
QUAD.ASC is source code for image processing using quadtrees. It includes
unpublished source code and input data which accompany's Ray Dash's
article on using quadtrees for raster-image processing.
viii) http://www.bath.ac.uk/~mapsajw/imgstar.html
ImgStar is a set of image processing tools written in c (?for Unix).
It is intended to be used in conjuntion with Jef Poskanzer's pbmplus
toolkit for coordinate/file conversions.
ix) http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/~ndr/cartlab/geotiff/geotiff.html
GeoTIFF file format and specifications, plus Beta GeoTIFF software using
the public domain LIBTIFF package. GeoTIFF is a collaborative effort
by a number of remote-sensing and cartographic raster data providers
and software vendors to establish a standard for geographically-orientated
raster-format data interchange using a standard TIFF tag extension.
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i) ftp://spectrum.xerox.com/pub/map/
Xerox's ftp site is described by Bill Thoen as a goldmine for
Map Datasets for DEM, DTM, TIGER data exchange for all kinds
of public domain map data.
ii) ftp://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/data
The EROS Data Center has 1:100,000 and 1:2,000,000 Digital Line Graph
land use/land cover and 1:250,000 Digital Elevation Models of the U.S.A.
There are also numerous Arc/Info coverages and AML's.
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9. GRAPHING/PLOTTING
i) ftp://oak.oakland.edu/simtel/msdos/plot
This directory on the Oakland software ftp repository has plotting programs
for geoscientists. Included are: grphc27.zip - Graphica scientific graphing
program is great; For piper and ternary plot programs
get the files piper10.zip and triplt22.zip. Try searching for these
at Oakland's Web server (see above).
ii) gopher://137.111.94.83:70/59c%3a/software/pc/geology
A general binary and ternary plotting program for Dos is available as
gcplot30.zip.
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9. COMMERCIAL DEVELOPERS
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This section contains the software developed at organisations which are
relatively low priced and descriptions/demonstrations are available
on the net.
i) http://www.aescon.com/rockware/index.htm
Rockware Inc. is a retailer of software for the geosciences. They have
placed their catalog description on the web, at:
http://www.aescon.com/rockware/products.htm
ii) http://gil.ipswichcity.qld.gov.au/comm/pest/index.html
Watermark Computing's web page has a description of its PEST software suite
for model-independent non-linear parameter estimation. There are also
links to MODFLOW utilities.
iii) http://www.et.byu.edu/~geos/software/wms/wms.html
Jim Nelson has been developing Basin Delineation software since 1990. It
runs under Unix or Windows. There is a free demo version.
-- http://www.et.byu.edu/~geos/software/#software
Other software from the ECGL site includes WMS (Water Shed Modelling
System), FastTAB (hydrodynamic modelling system), FastSEEP (automatic
seepage modelling) and Surface-Water Modelling
iv) http://www.silverplatter.com/catalog/erldb.html
Silverplatter Products on the Internet. Silverplatter market a number of
databases on CD-ROM. One of these, Geo-REF, is of interest to geoscientists.
You can download trial versions of their products or get a guest account.
See American Geological Institute in part 1 for GeoRef Newsletter.
v) http://www.nr.no/home/SAND/
Statistical Analysis of Natural Resource Data (SAND) specialises in
software for geostatistical analysis for reservoir evaluation and delineation.
Software includes CONTSIM, HAVANAH, SEQUENCE and HORIZON. Has links to
other sites in geostatistics, statistics and stochostic models.
vi) http://www.stratmap.com
Strategic Mapping Inc. (SMI) develops and markets the Atlas range of GIS
products for Dos and Windows. A demo version of the Windows package can be
downloaded. Info on the AGIS-L Internet Atlas GIS user group. Also links
other GIS resources.
vii) http://triton.cms.udel.edu/~oliver/gislist.html
The GIS Software Listing of Commercial Developers by Oliver Weatherbee.
Does contain some shareware locations.
viii) http://www.mathworks.com/
MatLab is Visualisation Software from Mathworks. The site includes news,
notes, faq, technical questions and user contributed M/MEX files. The
software apparently is used quite alot by oceanography researchers.
ix) http://www.igis.com
IntelliGIS Inc. is a provider of GIS products for the petroleum industry.
Software is Unix and Windows based.
x) http://www.compulink.co.uk/users/kovcomp
Kovach Computing provide low cost Dos and Windows statistical software.
Shareware versions exist. Products include Oriana (for circular analysis,
rose diagrams and the like) and MVSP (multi-variate statistics).
xi) http://www.dlsr.com.au/
Digital Land Systems Research develop the SAGE GIS system, which includes
Sage GIS, Capture, Cartographer. Demo software is available.
xii) http://www.info-mine.com/products/lynx/
Lynx Geosystems develop and market mine planning software and the Lynx
Geoscience Modelling System. It is for Unix and PC's.
xiii) http://www.petroway.com
Petroway Inc has made available demonstration versions of some of their
software. Included are Automate for Windows (well test interpretation
software) and Winboast (black-oil simulation software).
xiv) http://world.std.com/~able
Able Software Co. produces tools for GIS and Mappping. R2V is a Windows
and NT raster to vector conversion system. Demo software available.
xv) http://www.golden.com/golden/
Golden Software, Inc. make Surfer (a greate contouring package) for Dos
and Windows, Grapher for Dos and Windows plus MapViewer. Demo versions
of their software is avalable.
xvi) http://web.ixl.net:8000/consolve/
ConSolve Inc. develope advanced software products for scientists, engineers
etc. Two main products are SitePlanner and SiteView. Demo copy of SiteView
for Windows is available.
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