Mapshare - A New Campus Initiative
Visit the Mapshare website to learn more about sharing geographic data on campus to benefit research.
ATS Support for GIS
ATS no longer has a GIS consultant. For the foreseeable future ATS will provide help on a "best effort" basis to answer GIS inquiries. ATS will have access to consultants from ESRI to help with the most complicated issues. We have also created a small group to triage more routine problems and to help find the support you need. This group can be reached by email (please describe in full the nature of the problem or the support you need): atsgis@ucla.edu
GIS Quick Links:
- ATS Introductory GIS Web Pages: ArcGIS, ArcView, ArcInfo, Erdas Imagine,
- UCLA GIS ESRI site
licenses available through UCLA's Software Central
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UCLA ArcSDE/Oracle GIS Database includes data sets available only to current UCLA faculty, students and staff.
- ESRI Web-based Training available free to licensed UCLA users. For access contact SoftwareCentral@ats.ucla.edu
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Other GIS Web Sites:
National Center for
Geographic Information & Analysis (NCGIA),
The University Consortium for Geographic Information
Science (UCGIS), Your Internet Guide to GIS,
ESRI Home Page,
Erdas Home Page, MapInfo Home Page
Introduction
A GIS (Geographic Information System) is a system of computer software,
hardware, data, and personnel that manipulates, analyzes and presents
information that is spatially located. The software component of a GIS
system is called a GIS software application.
GIS software applications normally present data
pictorially in the form of maps and charts and numerically in the form of
tables. A GIS software application can combine:
- Raster data:
includes 2D images such as those acquired from remote sensing
sources (satellite images, aerial photographs and the
like), and Grid data (Digital
Elevation Model (DEM)) data.
- Vector data: geographic
features (point, line and polygon) such as those describing road,
hydrological networks and administrative boundaries
and their attributes.
- Event tables: An event
table contains fields of either raw coordinates or raw measures used to
compare with other measures found in existing feature classes,
or address information.
GIS Training
If you have purchased your ESRI license through UCLA's Software Central, ESRI's online courses are available to you. To access these online courses and events, contact SoftwareCentral@ats.ucla.edu.
GIS Software
GIS Data
The
UCLA ArcSDE/Oracle GIS Database
provides proprietary data to the UCLA community. Most of this data has been
purchased by UCLA. You can use the data over the network with a GIS application as if the
data was stored locally on your desktop machine. Included are:
- California wide data
- SPOT satellite 10 meter
panchromatic data covering California
- County-wide
data for all California counties
- County-wide
general-plan data for 5 Southern California counties
- Enhanced Thematic Mapper data from Landsat 7
including 39 1999-200 scenes in California and a 2002
scene in Los Angeles
- data provided by ESRI
Contact atsgis@ucla.edu with
questions or comments about the database.
Links to Selected
GIS Sites
Selected GIS Software Developer's
Web Sites
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