Desktop Software: Applied Information Management
Farm Management
SST Software
Provides a useful interactive feature that walks you through farm management software
used for PDAs.
Ag Leader
Has three type of software that are used for various purposes, like field preparation,
planting, harvest calculations are some of them. They support various file formats
and also provide a mobile application.
Mapping
StarPal
A downloadable demo version of HGIS software. User's Guide can also be found at the
website.
Tambero
Provides cattle management for farmers, allows for multiple species of animals and
crops, field notes, and comments.
AccuGlobe
A free GIS software that comes with extensions like farmland calculator, data explorer
and elections system to suit the requirements of a wide user base.
AGIS
This software can be used for vector based mapping and making on-screen measurements.
It can be enhanced to provide animation, web serving and connectivity to other databases
through a scripting language.
DIVA-GIS
A free GIS software that can be used for many different purposes. It is particularly
useful for mapping and analyzing biodiversity data, such as the distribution of species,
or other point-distributions.
fGIS
A free GIS software that was designed to suit the requirement of natural resource
managers who are not GIS specialists. Since September 2005, it is no longer supported
by original developers of the software.
GRASS
Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is a free GIS software used for
geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production,
spatial modeling, and visualization.
JUMP
Provides a graphic user interface (GUI) for viewing and manipulating spatial data
sets.
MapWindow GIS
MapWindow can be used as an alternative desktop GIS, data distribution and for development
and sharing of custom data analysis solutions. This freely available software is continually
enhanced by the addition of additional functionality by its current users.
ExpressView Browser Plug-in (MrSID) for Windows | LizardTech
This plug-in provides standard Windows Web browsers the ability to natively view MrSID
and JPEG2000 images. The graphic user interface allows options such as viewing, magnifying,
printing and saving images. ExpressView Browser Plug-in is free for individual use.
QGIS
This open source GIS software runs on Linux, Unix, Mac, and Windows for GIS applications
TatukGIS Viewer
The free TatukGIS Viewer allows viewing most GIS/CAD vector, raster image, and grid
file types and most ArcView, ArcExplorer, and MapInfo projects. Users can also control
visual layer properties, legend properties, and perform thematic mapping, spatial
and attribute querying, custom labeling, on-map measurements, hyper-linking, PDF export
and much more.
GeoDa Center
The GeoDa Center in the Spatial Analysis Laboratory (SAL) at University of Illinois
have several open source GIS software.
Watershed Management
Remote Sensing
- Airborne remote sensing basics | USDA Agricultural Research Service
- Dr. Nicholas Short's remote sensing tutorial
- Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
- Singapore Science Centre
- Kite aerial photography
GPS Tutorials
GPS Fun