Image of the Month ideas (first four) and other possibly interesting websites from the USGS GIS Workshop, 2006 – Compiled by Dave Hockman-Wert

The talks these websites came from (except the wildlife tracking) are at: http://gio.usgs.gov/egis/training/usgs_gis_2006/slides.html

1. Tracking of sooty shearwater from Columbia River to Monterey Bay

2. Astrogeology

3.Planetary WebGIS

4.Satellite tracking of birds (and turtles)

5.Epi Info – Maps

6.Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

7. Gather Map Server

8. LandScan – worldwide population database

9. USGS Mineral Resources On-line Spatial Data website
a. Includes good examples of organization and guidance of users to the data

10.NBII Geospatial Interoperability Framework (text search tool of NBII projects/data)

11. NBII Geospatial Portal (ArcIMS search tool of NBII projects/data)

12. NHD Plus (Improved, 1:100k resolution streams layer for the nation)

13. humanitarian effort to bring coarse-scale maps to providers

14. UN effort at emergency response

15. Global Disaster Information Network – virtual operations center