Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Biodiversity Informatics Facility is a leader in developing and promoting the effective use of geospatial tools by amateur and professional conservation practitioners. This site provides a growing set of practical resources for those interested in using geospatial technologies for biodiversity conservation.
Web site: http://biodiversityinformatics.amnh.org/
Ned Horning, Program Manager
horning(at)amnh(dot)org
Earthstar Geographics, LLC
Earthstar Geographics offers global geospatial satellite imagery and software to process and distribute remotely sensed image data. Our TerraColor® imagery is a seamless, simulated true color dataset derived from Landsat imagery that covers most of the world’s land areas at 15-meter resolution (www.terracolor.net). We are also authorized resellers and trainers for the ER Mapper image processing and compression software, and the Image Web Server software providing fast access to huge geospatial imagery datasets (1 TB+) via the Internet or intranet (www.es-geo.com).
Global Mapper now supports linking to Eric’s online database of imagery, to view and work with the entire converted TerraColor® world dataset. Refer to the information presented at the Global Mapper web site for more details, or contact Eric at Earthstar Geographics.
Web site: http://www.es-geo.com/
Eric Augenstein
info(at)es-geo(dot)com
Geosage
GeoSage HighView is an advanced image fusion and pan-sharpening software program. It successfully merges low-resolution multispectral bands with the high-resolution panchromatic band of recent satellite images, including QuickBird, IKONOS, SPOT-5, ALOS, and Landsat 7 ETM+. HighView is compact and easy to use. With its full set of spectral and spatial optimization and enhancement options, users now have more flexibility and control in producing ideal image fusion results best suited to their needs and taste. HighView is complementary to all major remote sensing image processing software.
Web site: http://www.geosage.com/
Kevin Chen
Form: http://www.geosage.com/highview/contact.html
Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)
GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for data translation and processing.
Web site: http://www.gdal.org/
Alternative source: http://www.maptools.org/
Frank Warmerdam, Founding Developer
Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF)
The Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) provides earth science data and products to help everyone to better understand global environmental systems. In particular, the GLCF develops and distributes remotely sensed satellite data and products that explain land cover from local to global scales.
Web site: http://www.landcover.org/ or http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/
Form: http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/contact.shtml
Global Mapper
Global Mapper is more than just a viewer capable of displaying the most popular raster, elevation, and vector datasets. It converts, edits, prints, tracks GPS, and allows you to utilize GIS functionality on your datasets in one low cost and easy to use software package. Global Mapper also includes the ability to directly access the entire TerraServer-USA database of USGS satellite imagery and topographic maps free of charge, the ability to easily access WMS data sources, including built-in access to elevation data and color imagery for the entire world, and to view elevation data in true 3D with any loaded raster imagery and vector data draped on top of it!
Web site: http://www.globalmapper.com/
Mike Childs
support(at)globalmapper(dot)com
Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration.
Web site: http://www.osgeo.org/
Frank Warmerdam, President
info(at)osgeo(dot)org
Open Source Software Image Map (OSSIM)
OSSIM provides advanced geo-spatial image processing for remote sensing, photogrammetry, and Geographic Information Systems. Backed by an active open source software development community, OSSIM solutions have been deployed on a number of critical commercial and government systems.
Having worked for Mark in the past, I can say that this is one of the most powerful tools in the Open Source RS/GIS mainstream — and it never surprises me to see more exciting progress as it develops.
Web site: http://www.ossim.org/
Mark Lucas
mlucas17(at)osgeo(dot)org
Telegraphics
Toby Thain at Telegraphics has assembled a collection of mostly open source Photoshop plugins for image processing and conversion tasks. His Filter Foundry plugin creator allowed me to build precise tools for processing of remote sensing data, which led to the broader concept of Remote Sensing Tools. With a number of common interests, including a commitment to making quality software, we have formed a collaborative friendship to improve our complementary toolsets.
Web site: http://www.telegraphics.com.au/
Toby Thain
support(at)telegraphics(dot)com(dot)au