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Coral Gables Sea Level Rise Impact Planning Tool

A web-based, interactive decision making tool that visualizes the potential effects of Sea Level Rise and storm surges in the City of Coral Gables. The tool is able to dynamically visualize...
Million Orchid Project

With the help of students and volunteers from the local community, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is working to restore some of South Florida's most rare and endangered orchid species into our...
Historical US Coast and Geodetic Survey (USCGS) Aerial Photos - South Florida

This web-application hosts digitized US Coast and Geodetic Survey Aerial Photos from 1927, 1928, 1932, 1935, 1952 and 1954 of the South Florida coast. The original photographs are from the...
Vegetation Change Monitoring along Boundary Areas of Everglades National Park

Project Objective   The primary objectives of this project are (1) to map species composition/vegetation patterns and their changes along the northern and eastern boundary of Everglades...
Unearthing St. Augustine's Colonial Heritage

The University of Florida (UF) has partnered with the City of St. Augustine to "unearth" archival repositories which have been previously inaccessible to researchers worldwide.The digital archive...
FDOT District Six Pedestrian Safety Web GIS Application

This web application includes: 1) The Top 20 Pedestrian Crash Locations; 2) The FDOT Crash Reporting Tool; 3) The FDOT Online Document Portal; 4) The GIS Data Collection for Pedestrian Safety...
WAWASH Knowledge Management System

A knowledge management tool developed by the GIS Center to support project reporting tools, project publications, and a project data portal for materials related to the WAWASH Program.
Monitoring of Tree Island Condition in the Southern Everglades

Information is needed about all elements of South Florida tree islands in order to formulate meaningful tree island performance measures and to monitor how restoration efforts affect them. Most...
Mangrove Ecotone Vegetation Monitoring

The Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) LTER Program is part of the National Science Foundation's Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network . FCE research focuses on the Everglades ecotone where...
GLOWS Web Page

A knowledge management system developed by the GIS Center to support project reporting tools, project publications, and a project data portal for materials related to the Global Water for...
Sea Level Rise Toolbox

This interactive mapping tool uses elevation data from the Google Elevation Service, and is also based on LiDAR elevation data from the State of Florida's Division of Emergency Management LiDAR...
Faculty Residence Map Application

This interactive mapping application provides the number of faculty residences by county and census blockgroups. URL: http://maps.fiu.edu/fiufacultyresidence/  
Remote Sensing Supported Vegetation Detection in the Hole-in-the-Donut Restoration Areas

Evaluation of restoration success can consist of multiple metrics and indices. Some of the metrics, e.g., species diversity and ratios of native vs. exotic species, can be derived from extensive...
WalkSmart Route Planner – Safe Routes to Schools

The "WalkSmart Route Planner" is a Web application that dynamically identifies the designated elementary school for a given home location and computes the safest route to that designated school. The...
Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (R-EMAP) IV: Greater Everglades Whole-Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment

The US Environmental Protection Agency's Everglades Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program is a long-standing research, monitoring, and assessment effort. Begun in 1993, its goal is...
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Coral Gables Virtual History

Florida International University has partnered with the City of Coral Gables to create a geospatially-enabled Virtual Historic City. With this tool, users may navigate to any point in the city in a...
Evaluating High-Resolution Aerial Photography Acquired by Unmanned Aerial Systems for Use in Mapping Everglades Wetland Plant Associations

Mapping of vegetation patterns over large areas using remote sensing methods requires field sample collections for two different purposes: (1) the establishment of plant association classification...
Vegetation Trends in Indicator Regions of Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park (ENP) is a floristically diverse ecosystem, having upland to wetland and freshwater to marine habitats, as well as both tropical and temperate floristic elements....
BIKE – Bicycle Knowledge Explorer (Miami-Dade)

This route planner, funded by the Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization(MPO), is a joint effort by the Florida International University GIS Center and the University of Florida Geomatics...
BIKE – Bicycle Knowledge Explorer (Palm Beach)

This route planner, funded by the Palm Beach Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), is a joint effort by the Florida International University GIS Center and the University of Florida Geomatics...
Geo-Spatial Data Preparation Modules of Remote Sensing Methods for the Implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction Modeling

The FIU GIS Center, in conjunction with the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Program and the Bell Program, developed and implemented online training modules and onsite short courses with the...
BIKE – Bicycle Knowledge Explorer (Broward County)

This route planner, funded by the Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), is a joint effort by the Florida International University GIS Center and the University of Florida Geomatics...
Transportation Outreach Planner

The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) September, 2003 Certification Report recommended that the Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) incorporate 'Sociocultural Effect' features...
Evaluation of WorldView-2 and Landsat Data to Differentiate and Map Freshwater Marsh Plant Communities at Different Spatial Scales for Two Everglades Landscapes

The purpose of this project was to evaluate the use of remote sensing 1) to detect and map Everglades wetland plant communities at different scales; and 2) to compare map products delineated and...
Plant Community Classification from Satellite Imagery for the Greater Everglades Freshwater Wetlands & Community Abundance, Distribution and Hydroperiod Analysis

The four main objectives of this research project were:To develop methods for using satellite imagery to differentiate and map plant communities in WCA 2A from remotely sensed imagery, and to test...
Digital Flora of Ucayali, Perú

The primary dataset represents the vouchered botanical collections of James Graham and Jose Schunke Vigo in the Department of Ucayali, Peru, from October 1997 until the present. Over 3,500 separate...
Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (R-EMAP): Greater Everglades Whole-Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment - Interactive Web Application

The Everglades R-EMAP project produced large quantities of data collected at random sampling sites.  Data collection and analysis is an ongoing, long-term activity conducted by scientists of...
LiDAR Elevation Data Download App.

The Florida International University International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC) and the GIS Center provide access and tools to facilitate download of the Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) LAS...