Spatial Links of Interest

link type

Teaching material collection
Research organization
Conference
Professional association
Software - spatial analysis
Software - GIS (open source)
Software - GIS (commercial)

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Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center Link

The Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC) brings together scientists and educators from Temple University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to pursue the overarching goals of

  • Understanding spatial learning
  • Using this knowledge to develop programs and technologies that will transform educational practice, helping learners to develop the skills required to compete in a global economy.

SILC participants include researchers from cognitive science, psychology, computer science, education, and neuroscience, as well as practicing geoscientists and engineers who are particularly interested in spatial thinking in their fields, and teachers in the CPS.
CrimeSTAT Link

CrimeSTAT is a spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations and other data represented as points. Runs in Microsoft Windows and should be used with a desktop GIS.
Relational Databases and GIS Link

MIT OpenCourseWare
Weighting Locations Link

Site Location Exercise: Resort
SaTScan Link

SaTScan is a free software that analyzes data using spatial, temporal, or space-time scan statistics.
Software libraries in R for spatial analysis Link

A large number of packages provide spatial statistical methods or interfaces to GIS, and many of them provide data structures and e.g. plotting methods for spatial data. There is however little coordination between them, and only very few provide functionality for more than one spatial data type.