Geospatial Case Studies [1]

Data Acquisition and Analysis / R Analytical Environment

R Language Scripts for USA County Shape File Processing (8 mb ZIP file) [2]

R Programming Language scripts used to produce the United States County Boundary and Centroid Shape Files. Good examples of using R to process ESRI Shape Files.

Acquire and Process GRIB Format GCM Climate Data Files [3]

Search for and download General Circulation Model (GCM) time series data in gridded Binary (GRIB) format. Import the data into the R programming environment. Aggregate the individual monthly time series to generate long-term monthly average time series. Display the resulting images in R, ArcMap GIS, and MATLAB.

Acquire and Process NetCDF Format Climate Data Files With R [4]

Search for and download NOAA/NCEP Reanalysis relative humidity time series data in NetCDF format. Import the data into the R programming environment and to explore the data.

High-Level Language Programming

High-Performance Computing using Shared Memory, MPI API, Free Pascal and C Languages
[5]

Implements a 2-dimensional raster grid program coded using Free Pascal and ANSI standard C Languages, MPICH2 Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Unix IPC/ Shared Memory.

MATLAB Analytical Environment

Read and Analyze NetCDF Format Climate Model Data Sets Using MATLAB [6]

Search for and download General Circulation Model (GCM) simulation data sets in NetCDF format. Use MATLAB script to extract and explore the data set.

ESRI/ArcMap GIS

ESRI ArcMap GIS Tutorial: Map Design and Production for Publication (1.9 MB Pdf) [7]

Use Map Layout tools to design a three-panel global study area map.

ESRI ArcMap GIS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Analysis (16 MB Pdf) [9]

Use Digital Elevation Models (DEM) and ArcMap GIS to compute and analyze habitat elevation zones.

Data Import Utilities for Microsoft Excel-format Data Files

Import MS Excel Spreadsheet Data into ArcMap GIS Point Shapefile (11 kb Pdf) [10]

Import Excel spreadsheet data into an ArcMap Shape File.

Import MS Excel Spreadsheet Data into SAS Data Set (1.7 Gb zip file) [11]

Import Excel spreadsheet data into an SAS data set.

Geospatial Data Sets

United States County Boundary Base Map (8.5 mb ZIP file) [12]

Base 50-State polygon shapefile containing USA County outlines

US County Boundary File With Centroids and US Census FIPS Codes (17 mb ZIP file) [13]

Three ESRI-format shape files: US County boundaries,County boundaries with centroid lat/long and US Census Bureau FIPS codes, and US County centroids with FIPS Codes.