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Recent announcements:

(1) “GISFish” is a Global Gateway to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing and Mapping for Aquaculture and Inland Fisheries. GISFish is a brand new Web site of the Aquaculture Conservation and Management Service (FIMA) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and a number of collaborating institutions. More info is available on our GISFish page and on the GISFish Website: http://www.fao.org/fi/gisfish/index.jsp

(2) 'Third International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences' was held August 22-25 2007 in Shanghai, China. Follow the link for details: http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/3rd/index.htm

(3) Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences  (Textbook: GIS/Spatial analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences, Volume 2). This book has been published.  A limited number of the copies have been printed. For details and to order, please refer to:    http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/2nd/sympo15.htm

GIS Software

ESRI - ArcInfo & ArcView are industry GIS standards.
ERDAS - used for remote sensing. 

GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a GIS that operates in the UNIX environment through a graphical user interface and shell in X-Windows. It is released under GPL.  European Mirror Site.

SPRING - is a free mapping program for Windows. 
AGIS - a simple GIS program for Windows

  

GIS Demonstrations 

NOAA/PMEL/TAO - the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon

Fish sampling GIS application for PDAs - from Glenn Hollowell AK DF&G:
The link to the software and source code is:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gps-datalogger/
The link to the poster is: http://www.cf.adfg.state.ak.us/geninfo/pubs/posters/aerial_data_poster.pdf

GIS Online Resources

GISFish web site
Remote sensing resources from CBC
CGRER Maps and References
REGIS GRASSLinks 3.1 
Gap Analysis Program
PCL Map Collection 
Center For Advanced Spatial Technologies
Products from the NCGIA 

  

GIS Data Resources

U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data (mostly free)
FGDC Manual of Federal Geographic Data Products 
USDA-NRCS-Data Resources   

 

 

Past GIS events

Society for Conservation GIS 5th Annual Conference
July 5-7 2002, at La Casa Del Zorro in Borrego Springs (two hours east of San Diego, CA, USA).

Second International Symposium on GIS / Spatial
Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences 
September 3-6, 2002 in Brighton, U.K.

Basic GIS Techniques for Fish Biologists 
August 17, 2002 at AFS Annual meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA

Advanced GIS Techniques for Fish Biologists 
 August 17, 2002 at AFS Annual meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Past GIS Symposia

NCGIA Third International Conference for GIS and Environmental Modeling (Santa Fe - 1996)

First International Symposium for GIS in Fisheries (Seattle - 1999)

AFS Fisheries GIS Symposium (St. Louis - August 2000) 

NCGIA Fourth International Conference for GIS and Environmental Modeling (Banff - September 2000) 

 

 

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