| Resources and Support for Spatial Analysis and
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
About GIS |
SSDS Resources and Services |
Branner Library: Geospatial Data and GIS Resources and Services |
Virtual Campus Courses
GIS (Geographic Information Systems) has grown in popularity in the past
few years as a powerful tool for spatial analysis in the social sciences.
Social Science Data and Software (SSDS) continues to work with the
Branner Earth Sciences Library
to build a collaborative network of expertise, support, and resources
for GIS and spatial statistical analysis. The Stanford University Libraries
have developed a solid foundation of support to help you locate spatial
data and use statistical and GIS applications to do your work.
SSDS has always been a repository of social science numeric data and
recent efforts have expanded its collection of spatial data for research
and instruction, again with a focus on the social sciences. Economic,
political, and social boundaries and data are available from U.S. federal
and state agencies, as well as international, non-governmental, and commercial
sources. Check out Socrates
to search for spatial data holdings. Along with computers in The Velma Denning Room,
there is a cluster of computers (numbered 1-6) with statistical and GIS
applications in the
Jonsson Reading Room
located in the
Social Sciences Resource Center (SSRC).
Both rooms are on the first floor in the Green Library Bing Wing.
Statistical software applications with spatial analytical tools include
S-Plus with its
S+SpatialStats module,
as well as
S-Plus for ArcView GIS,
SAS with
its GIS procedures, such as VARIOGRAM and KRIGE2D, Terraseer's SpaceStat and
GeoDa,
an open source application developed by Luc Anselin. Check out our GIS
document under "Getting Started" guides
and documents.
The Branner Earth Sciences Library has an extensive collection of geospatial
data, as well as four GIS workstations, and both a black and white and
a color laser printer for production work. The Branner staff also provide
GIS consulting, reference manuals and software. Branner provides assistance
in geocoding, remote sensing, and advanced mapping of spatial data to
all faculty, staff, and students using GIS at Stanford. Branner Library
is located on the second floor of the Mitchell Earth Sciences Building.
Check out the
Branner GIS web
site for more information.
An excellent source of information and tools has been compiled by the
Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) at
the University of California, Santa Barbara. CSISS offers workshops, as
well as develops online references and documentation on spatial analysis
in the social sciences. An exciting development is their work on GeoDa,
a continuing project of Luc Anselin at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Stanford faculty, staff, and students are eligible to take many of the
ESRI Virtual Campus courses for free. ESRI is the producer of the software
application ArcView for GIS. For more information on courses and how to
enroll, check out the Branner
Virtual Campus page.
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