Information
Discovery:
Active projects
Databases
Publications
Reports

Data Integration:
Watersheds
Education

Case Studies:
Analysis
Assessment
Characterization
Management

Geographic Information:
GIS
GIS Education
GIS Software

Customer service
Glossaries
Conferences/events

Science in Your Watershed

Geographic Information Systems:

• Educational Information on GIS
• GIS Journals and Magazines
• GIS Hotlist Sites
• GIS Bookstores

Educational Information on GIS:

• USGS - Geographic Information Systems - What is a GIS? This page answers your basic questions.
• ESRI - Getting to Know GIS -- Introduction to GIS
• GIS Timeline -- Tracing the history and development of Geographical Information Systems through the past forty years.
• What is GIS -- GIS is a collection of computer hardware, software, and geographic data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.

GIS Journals and Magazines:

• Earth Observation Magazine (EOM)
• Canadian Geographica
• Geo Info Systems
• GEOSTATISTICS
• Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS)

GIS Hotlist Sites:

• Alexandria Digitial Library - other-sites hotlinks - great resources here organized geographically
• Environmental Systems Research Institute - ESRI
• Department of Geosciences - University of West Georgia
• Nice Geography Sites - maintained by Patrick Kremer
• Geotimes - Geotimes.com
• Federal Geographic Data Committee - an interagency committee that promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis.
• Geo Data .gov - geodata.gov
• GIS Cafe - giscafe.com
• Intergraph - intergraph.com
• Geo Spatial Solutions - geospatialsolutions.com
• National Geospatial Program Office - building the USGS National Spatial Data Infrastructure.

GIS Bookstores:

• Amazon books
• Barnes and Noble
• EOM Bookstore - Earth Observation Magazine
• ESRI books - Bookstore Catalog - Includes a new arrivals section that is very good for tracking new books.
• Geoplace Warehouse - various GIS book selections
• Onword Press - Professional User Documentation manuals.