Collection of programming ideas and challenges

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GIS Programming Ideas - A list of research locations, and data sources for learning and programming GIS (Geographic Information System) Change detection. I collected these, but
may never do anything with them. This could be a good starting list for career or business.

GIS - Change Detection - Can be used for many purposes, examples include defense, finding weeds and pests on Farms, locating emegring volcanoes, vegitation change over time, rate of increase in city size, new construction, to mention just a few.

This data is mostly for the United States - Please add information that you know of for you're country.

Change Detection - Measure changes in a particular area or feature over time.
Research:
Remote Sensing:

1. GIS people - Commercial company, but good study
   
2. Tutorial: Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
   
3. Remote sensing wikipedia
   
4. NOAA - What is remote sensing
   
5. ESA eduspace What is remote sensing
   
6. NASA Earth Observatory
   
7. Digital Globe - Commercial company, but good study
   
8. GIS People Austrailia - What can you do with GIS
   
9. Center for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP)
   
10. PhysicalGeography.net - Introduction to Remote Sensing ebook
    
11. GIS Geography - 100 Earth Shattering Remote Sensing Applications & Uses
    
12. Careers in Cartography and GIS - pdf
    

Map Projections

1. Map Projections - Wikipedia
   
2. List of Map Projections Wikipedia
   
3. Map Projections Overview University of Coloado Boulder
   
4. Map projections kartoweb.itc.nl
   
5. Map projections poster
   
6. Map Projections Kartograph
   
7. Understanding Map Projections ESRI pdf
   
8. Plotting Coordinates and Projections
   
9. Europe Map Projections - pdf
   
10. Maps and Cartography - Projections Ball State
    
11. Package ‘mapproj’ - The Comprehensive R Archive Network
    
12. Manitoba Map Projections
    
13. What are Map Projections?
    

Data

Remote Sensing:

1. Teaching with GeoPads - Remote Sensing Imagery
   
2. National Map Site - US government
   
3. DOQ (Digital orthophoto Quadrangles) - USGS
   
4. DOQ TerraServer USA
   
5. GeoTiff Format Specification
   
6. GeoCommunity - Resource for GIS and GeoSpatial data
   
7. LandSAT program
   
8. The National Geologic Map Database
   
9. Association of American State Geologists (AASG)
   
10. New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
    
11. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
    
12. Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
    
13. United States Bureau of Mines - Wikipedia
    
14. National Mine Map Repository
    
15. Canada Mining & Geology Board
    

Searching for data - Mostly for those new to searching, but you just might find something useful:

Just a quick note about searching. Google is a great place to start when you
have a specific topic in mind. Here are a few things you can do to enhance your searches:

For example, I will use the following link (from Manatoba Map Projections):

http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/socstud...s/tn-6.pdf

1. If you want to narrow your search to a specific site, add the following at the end of the search:
   
   'Map Projections site: edu.gov.mb.ca' -- Note no www
   
   There was a day when you would get just the specific site. Now it will be 'mostly' the specific site. Google, in order to stasify all searches has decided that this is what you need. They still have a verbatim engine, that will not give the extra info.
   
   
2. Take the site url and start truncating the end and finding out where that will take you. Often, you will get a 'forbidden' message, often a surprise.
   For example take http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/socstud...s/tn-6.pdf
   Now remove the tn-6.pdf and retry. You will get a nice list of related information.
   

According to http://gisgeography.com/free-gis-programming-tutorials/
Python is the number one language used for GIS