Stack Exchange
gis.stackexchange.com
Questions and answers by GIS users for GIS users.
Geoinformation Science & Environmental Modeling / Surface Processes Group at NC State (Mitasova’s group)
skagit.meas.ncsu.edu
Helena Mitasova’s group, Open source GIS, modeling, lidar, land surface processes, and more.
XTools Pro
http://www.xtoolspro.com/
Those that grew up on ArcView 3.x, you know how useful XTools was. Here’s the latest by DataEast.
GME: Geospatial Modeling Environment
www.spatialecology.com
Rigorous spatial analysis and modeling with ties to R through this ArcGIS extension developed by GIS guru Hawthorne Beyer (Hawth’s Tools).
Geospatial Analysis Online Textbook
www.spatialanalysisonline.com
Authors Michael de Smith, Paul Longley, and Mike Goodchild cover a wide range of concepts, techniques, and software in this free online book.
DEM Surface Tools
http://www.jennessent.com/arcgis/surface_area.htm
Jeff Jenness is one of the great innovators in GIS. Read install instructions carefully.
Raster Extractor
http://www.jennessent.com/arcgis/RasterExtractor.htm
Please support Jeff Jenness.
Libre Map Project
http://libremap.org
Free downloadable 1:24,000 scale topographic quads (DRGs), no BS.
NetMap: Community Watershed Database by ESI
http://www.netmaptools.org/
Watershed data for WA, OR, ID, northern CA and more.
Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences
http://serc.carleton.edu/quantskills/index.html
Lots of useful tools for teachers and students in the Geosciences.
Visualizations & Videos for Geomorphology
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/geomorph/visualizations.html
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/geomoph/emriver/index.html
CSDMS – Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System
http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/GIS_tools
GIS tools, models, student labs, videos, research news, data and more.
TauDEM by Dr. David Tarboton
http://hydrology.usu.edu/taudem/taudem5.0/index.html
The Channel Restorationist
https://geomorphic.wordpress.com
A suite of useful tools, links to data sources, and general fluvial geomorph information with an East Coast focus. Check out the latest from professional hydrologist, Bill McDavitt.
National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)
http://nhd.usgs.gov/index.html
Helpful NHD Videos: http://nhd.usgs.gov/videos_demos.html
WBD=Watershed Boundary Dataset, HUC=Hydrologic Unit Code
Geomorphic Road Analysis & Inventory Package (GRAIP)
http://www.fs.fed.us/GRAIP/index.shtml
http://www.neng.usu.edu/cee/faculty/dtarb/graip/
OpenTopography.org
http://www.opentopography.org
NSF-sponsored, LIDAR-focused.
Little Book of Geomorphology
http://instaar.colorado.edu/~andersrs/publications.html#littlebook
Geomorphometry.org
www.geomorphometry.org
John Pelletier at University of Arizona
http://geomorphology.geo.arizona.edu/
Advanced GIS/MatLab, programming-focus.
RiverTools
http://www.rivix.com
GIS software for analysis & visualization of digital terrain, watersheds, river networks.
Peltier Technical Services, Inc.
http://peltiertech.com
Excel resources.
GeomorphTools.org by Dr. Ben Crosby at Idaho State
http://www.geomorphtools.org
Extract stream profiles, analyze concavity and steepness with Stream Profiler tool (ArcGIS/MatLab).
Joe Wheaton at Utah State Watershed Sciences
http://www.joewheaton.org/
Fluvial research-focus.
LiDAR and fluvial hydrology related tools, news, research, links.
Gary Parker’s Morphodynamics
http://hydrolab.illinois.edu/people/parkerg//?q=people/parkerg/
Quantitative fluvial hydro focus, sed transport Excel, morphodynamics eBook, lectures, reprints, tools, landscape evolution modeling.
Excel Add-ins by Dr. Wagner Kamakura at Duke
http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~kamakura/bio/WagnerKamakuraDownloads.htm
TecDEM: Tool for Tectonic Geomorphology
http://www.rsg.tu-freiberg.de/twiki/bin/view/Main/TecDEM
Remote Sensing Group at Technische Universitat Bergakademie Freiberg
Geomorphology Specialty Group of Association of American Geographers (AAG)
http://www.aag-gsg.org/resources/links.shtml
ESRI / ArcGIS
www.esri.com
Thiessen Polygon Precip Calculation Animation
piercecollegeweather.com
All About Frozen Ground
nsidc.org
Permafrost and cold region dataset
KMLCSV Converter
choonchernlim.com/kmlcsv
Download through SourceForge
ZONUMS
zonums.com
Many useful conversion tools (KML, .shp, .xls, .kml…)
GPSBabel
gpsbabel.org
A great little program for download, upload, conversion of GPS data