This website from the Minnesota department of natural resources provides information on the Garmin DNR application. The purpose of the application, its functionality and screenshots are included. The site also includes...

This activity describes the technique of preparing latitude-longitude based data so it can be imported into a geographic information system (GIS). The chapter describes the steps to create a map to display data and...

Step-by-step instructions walk users through working with data from a seismic wave model in a freely available GIS (geographic information system) program, ESRI's ArcVoyager SE. Users generate and examine maps and...

This tool from the United States Geological Survey provides an easy way to navigate a variety of data sets including aerial photography, AVHRR composites, declassified data, digital line graphs, digital maps and more....

In this activity, by the Lane Community College MAPS GIS Program, students work in teams to evaluate Oregon cities’ tsunami evacuation plans related to a potential 8.1 coastal earthquake. Teams use additional information...