STATISTICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

GIS Programs Available at NYU

Frank LoPresti

ArcInfo is a commercial product used around the globe, developed by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). It is powerful, well-documented, and well-supported, and its cost reflects that. ESRI also make a smaller version called ArcView. Both are available at the ACF.

GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) was developed by the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. It was designed for managing federal land, and provides management tools to military land managers and environmental planners. It is free to anyone who has a Unix system and enough patience to download and install it.

MapInfo (not used in the Web project described here) is also available on ACF servers. At NYU, this user-friendly PC program is used in the Wagner School GPA program and in SCE courses; it is also used in many government agencies.

Atlas GIS and a new product, ER Mapper, are also available at NYU. [ C ]

Frank LoPresti heads the ACF {now ITS} Social Sciences Group.
frank.lopresti@nyu.edu

Posted 20 May 1996. Revised 24 May 2004.