DataSets

GPS/GIS TTL Datasets - Arc View 3.3

GIS Data Sets

Directions to Access the Data Sets

Additional Information
 

GIS Data Sets

Alaska    -     Beverly Ball

Around the Block We Go     -    Jane Daum   

Midland     -    Bonnie Dowling

Trees and Leaves    -    Edith Hooper

Watershed    -    Judy Jones

Four Methods of Determining Velocity    -    Micheal McKernan

Noxious Weed Mapping    -    Joel Milton

Town of Midland    -    Mary Parquet

Seasonal Changes in a Freshwater Biome    -    Toni Vance and Angela King

Fossil    -    Dem Crary, John Blosmo, and Jack Vetter

Bison Map    - Roxi Gaaskjolen

Dam It    -    Monica Stambach and  Barb Berndt

Getting Around Your Community    -    Sonja Gebhart

Ghosts of the Prairie    -    Larinda Price, Vicky Waterland & Jami Sheridan

Why I Live Where I Do!    -    Darcy Mollman, Verneen Frei & Marlene Palmer

Sioux Falls    -    Sandy Mockler

SDMap    -    Laura Froehlich

Battles of the Revolutionary    -    Jorrie Brandhagen

South Dakota: Land after the Ice Age    -    Janet Ries & Dan Swatek

Golf    -    Heath Marshall & Chad Johnson

Spirit Mounds    -    Janet Ries & Dan Swatek

Geography Scavenger Hunt    -    Brenda Kunkel

Help for the Hills    -    Brenda Murphey

Mapping the Freeman Aboretum    -    Marlys Hauck-Fenner

Using Technology for Data Analysis and Statistics    -    Linda Paulson

Watershed a Link to the World  -  Patricia Martin

Remember Your Relatives    -    Beverly  Myer

Where in the World is Art?    -    Kristi Schultz

Washington Tree and Soil Ecology    -    Tim Gjoraas

Who Needs Geography?    -    Gayle Johnson

Directions to Access the above Data Sets

1. Need to download WinZip on to the computer you will be downloading the dataset.

2. Click the link for the data set and you will l be prompted for the saving the file.

3. Save the dataset zip file to your hard drive probably onto "C" drive.

4. Unzip the Data Set to access the ".apr" file.

5. Double click the ".apr" file to view the project.

Additional Information

Geodata
Geospatial One-Stop portal for federal spatial datasets.

Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium
Find products and services for Agriculture, for Natural Resource Management, and for K-12 Education, using satellite imagery and other spatial technologies at this site.

Ed-Parc
EdParc is the education branch of UMAC. Sample lessons available and lots more links.

Rapid City and Sioux Falls
Two cities in South Dakota that are using GIS for city planning. Good websites to view a wide variety of images showing GIS applications that students should enjoy.

J Trak 3D
J Trak 3D is a fun way to show students how our jumble of orbiting satellites interact with each other. Lots of information on all orbiting objects in space. Very fun animation.

TerraServer
Simple to use, free source of satellite images and map fragments. Can georegister as well for use in GIS.

EROS Data Center
EROS Data Center. Unbelievable global resource right here in South Dakota. Extensive links to GIS &and endless imagery.

USGS
Links to everything about planetary surface, geology, hydrology, cartography, and on and on!

NOAA
Almost as valuable to me as USGS. Incredible data source for water and air especially.

ESRI
Mecca of GIS sites. Links to everything in GIS. Somewhat proprietary since ESRI is the major provider of GIS products. Incredible library of lessons and tutorials online.

NASA
No list is complete without NASA. Go to "related websites" and there are some great planetary links.

National Atlas of the United States
Yes, this is THE national atlas. The last paper edition was published in 1972. Go here for constantly updated information on nearly anything you want to know about our nation in map form!

SpaceImaging
Ikonos satellite imagery.

USGS Global Visualization Viewer
Landsat 7 imagery.

NASA’s Visible Earth
Visible Earth imagery.

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