Environmental monitoring and Assessment
Interpretation of results and statistical methods.

As a the final installment of our environmental monitoring and assessment series our meeting was on compilation and interpretation of results plus statistical methods.

Speakers Tom Enns and Patrick Sun, ESRI, provided a demo of ArcGIS plus an overview of statistical methods for natural resource management.
ArcGIS is a family of software products - a complete, single, integrated system for geographic data creation, management, integration, and analysis.

ArcGIS 8.3 includes a variety of products that enable users to produce maps
from obtained vector data (georeferenced data of lines, points, and polygons) and raster data (non-georeferenced data like aerial photographs and satellite images). The level of manipulation of data ranges from low (ArcReader-free) to medium (ArcView) to high (ArcEditor and ArcInfo). Additional packages available include ArcPublisher to publish maps to the web in .pmf format. Extensions are available for ArcGIS including: Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst, Geostatistical Analyst, Tracking Analyst and Survey Analyst.

Tom and Patrick also presented http://www.geographynetwork.ca/ an online resource for sharing geographical content including maps and data.

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