The following categories contain free resources for ColoradoView users, AmericaView participants, and any potential users interested in working with remote sensing and GIS data. Downloadable PDFs and HTML files take users step-by-step through essential remote sensing and GIS functions. Many of the following ColoradoView tutorials were directly funded through AmericaView and created by ColoradoView Student Interns at Colorado State University.
Tutorials
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Field Measurments
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| How to Use Trimble GeoExplorer 3000 Series |
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| How to Use Garmin ETrex Handheld GPS Devices |
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| How to Set Up Circular Field Plots (7.2m) for Forest Cover Classification |
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| How to Use USFS Fixed-Radius Quarter-Acre Plots for Collecting Forest Cover Classification Data |
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Remote Sensing
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| How to Download and Decompress USGS Landsat Data |
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| How to Bring Landsat Data into ArcGIS, Mosaic and Clip Scenes |
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| How to Mosaic and Clip Landsat Data |
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| How to Composite Landsat Data |
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| How to Calculate Vegetation Indices from Landsat 5 and 7 Data |
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GIS
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| How to Create and View Geospatial PDFs and Geo-tagged Photos |
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| How to Extrapolate Biomass for Tamarisk |
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| How to Calculate 900m2 Biomass |
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| How to Create 200 Random Points Using Hawth’s Tools |
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| How to Attach Biomass and Percent Cover to Random Points |
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| How to Create a Euclidean Distance from a Water Layer |
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Geospatial Modeling
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| How to Detect Tamarisk with Maxent Modeling |
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| Predicting Species Distribution Using Maxent Modeling |
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| Identifying Niche Overlap from Maxent Model Predications |
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Other StateView members offer additional educational resources, including tutorials, learning modules and links to pertinent material outside of the AmericaView partnership. We encourage you to explore all of the educational resources offered by our StateView partners. Several examples are highlighted below. Enjoy!
AmericaView Video on accessing Landsat imagery and working with it in ArcGIS
Earth Observation Day (EOD) Lesson Plans from AmericaView
AlabamaView: MULTISPEC Tutorial
MarylandView: Watershed Tutorial
Need additional help? Contact the ColoradoView at info@coloradoview.org
