Spatiotemporal Mapping/Analysis
Spatiotemporal mapping and analysis of multivariate environmental, demographic, socioeconomic, behavioral & public health data
Computational Analysis Tools
| Resource | Developer |
|---|---|
| Agent Analyst (“Agent Based Modeling Extension for ArcGIS”) | University of Redlands, Argonne National Laboratory |
| ANTHROPAC (“program for cultural domain analysis”) | Analytic Technologies |
| Arc Hydro (ArcGIS add-in to support geospatial and temporal data analyses) | Esri |
| ArcGIS (geographical information system mapping and visualization) | Esri |
| ArcPad | Esri |
| BMElib (“MATLAB toolbox of modern spatiotemporal geostatistics implementing the Bayesian Maximum Entropy theory”) | Marc Serre, University of North Carolina |
| CAMEO MARPLOT (Mapping applications for response, planning, and local operational tasks) | USEPA and NOAA |
| CartoDB | Vizzuality team |
| Cartographica | ClueTrust |
| CartoMobile | ClueTrust |
| CropScape (“crop-specific land cover data layer created annually for the continental United States”) | USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service |
| Didger (“geoprocessing and data conversion tool”) | Golden Software Inc. |
| DIVA-GIS (“mapping and geographic data analysis”) | DIVA-GIS development team |
| EJView (“mapping tool […] to create maps and generate detailed reports based on the geographic areas and data sets”) | USEPA |
| Encom Discover (“desktop Geographical Information System”) | Encom and Pitney Bowes |
| Encom Discover PA – Encom Discover Profile Analyst | Encom and Pitney Bowes |
| Encom QuickMag (“magnetic modeling package”) | Encom and Pitney Bowes |
| Envision (“A spatially explicit, distributed, multiagent-based framework for policy assessment and alternative futuring”) | Envision development team, Oregon State University |
| EnvStats – Package for Environmental Statistics, including US EPA Guidance | S.P. Millard |
| EQuIS (“Environmental data management”) | EarthSoft Inc. |
| ERDAS Imagine (“geospatial data authoring system, supplies tools for […] Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry and GIS needs”) | Hexagon Geospatial |
| European AirBase reporting stations | European Environment Agency |
| EVS Pro – Environmental Visualization System Pro – 3D Mapping | C Tech |
| GME – Geospatial Modelling Environment | Spatial Ecology LLC |
| Google Earth Pro (“3D interactive globe that can be used to aid planning, analysis and decision making”) | |
| Google Map Maker (“allows […] to add and update geographic information for […] users to see in Google Maps and Google Earth”) | |
| GRASS GIS – Geographic Resources Analysis Support System Geographic information system | Open Source Geospatial Foundation |
| GS+ (“Geostatistics for the Environmental Sciences”) | Gamma Design Software |
| GSLIB – Geostatistical Software Library | Stanford University |
| HADCM3 – Hadley Centre Coupled Model | The Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research and USEPA |
| IDEA – Infusing satellite Data into Environmental air quality Applications | NASA- EPA-NOAA partnership |
| LandView | US Census Bureau |
| MapBox | MapBox team |
| MapInfo Professional (“desktop mapping application”) | MapInfo and Pitney Bowes |
| MapInfo Vertical Mapper (“tool for geospatial data analysis”) | MapInfo and Pitney Bowes |
| MATSim – Multi-Agent Transport Simulation | I.L.S.T.S., Technische Universität Berlin; I.T.P.S., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich and Senozon |
| OpenStreetMap (“OpenStreetMap is […] data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world”) | OpenStreetMap team |
| Ortelius (mapping software for Mac OS X) | Mapdiva, LLC |
| PostGIS (“Spatial and Geographic objects for PostgreSQL”) | OSGeo Project |
| QGIS (“Create, edit, visualise, analyse and publish geospatial information”) | QGIS development team |
| RETIGO – REal TIme GeOspatial viewer (“web-based tool for researchers and citizen scientists to explore their air measurements”) | USEPA |
| SimCLIM (“software package […] to facilitate climate risk and adaptation assessments”) | CLIMsystems Ltd. |
| SimCLIM for ArcGIS / Climate (“add-in […] to produce spatial images of climate change”) | CLIMsystems Ltd. |
| SimCLIM for ArcGIS / Marine (“add-in […] to explore the impacts of climate change on marine biogeochemical cycles”) | CLIMsystems Ltd. |
| STEM – Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler | Eclipse |
| TopoToolbox (“MATLAB program for the analysis of digital elevation models”) | TopoToolbox development team |
| VegScape – Vegetation Condition Explorer | USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service |
| VERDI – Visualization Environment Rich Data Interpretation | Argonne National Laboratory, USEPA, and CMAS Center |
| Worldmapper (“collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest”) | Worldmapper Team |
Information Portals and Databases
| Resource | Developer |
|---|---|
| ADB – Assessment Database (“database application for tracking water quality assessment data”) | USEPA |
| AERONET – AErosol RObotic NETwork data | AERONET |
| AHS – American Housing Survey | US Census Bureau |
| AirBase (“European air quality database”) | European Environment Agency and European Topic Centre on Air Pollution and Climate Change and Mitigation (ETC/ACM) |
| AIRMEX (European Indoor Air Monitoring and Exposure Assessment Project database) | European Commission, JRC, IHCP |
| American Communities Project | American Communities Project, American University, Washington, DC |
| AQS – Air Quality System | USEPA |
| Atlas of United States Mortality | CDC |
| Cancer Mortality Maps | NCI (National Cancer Institute), NIH |
| CDC WONDER – Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research | CDC |
| Census of Agriculture | USDA NASS |
| CEP – Cumulative Exposure Project | USEPA |
| CGD – Customized Geographic Database | Biota of North America Program (BONAP) |
| CHSI – Community Health Status Indicators | CDC |
| CPS – Current Population Survey | US Census Bureau |
| Digital Elevation Data | USDA NRCS |
| Disease Maps 2012 | US Geological Survey |
| DIVA-GIS (GIS data by country) | DIVA-GIS development team |
| EMAP – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program | USEPA |
| Esri Business Analyst | Esri |
| GADM database of Global Administrative Areas | GADM development team |
| GeoLytics Demographics Estimates/ Projections | GeoLytics, Inc. |
| Health Indicators Warehouse | National Center for Health Statistics |
| HealthMap | Boston Children’s Hospital |
| Index Mundi – Maps | IndexMundi development team |
| Interactive Lyme Disease Map | CDC |
| Italian demographics data | ISTAT |
| LandScan USA | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| LULC – Land Use and Land Cover | US Geological Survey |
| MapUSA – Human mapping project | John Logan |
| MesoWest (Current and archived weather observations and summaries from across the United States) | Dept. of Atmos. Sci., University of Utah |
| MODIS Satellite Land, Ocean, Atmosphere Products | NASA |
| NACJD – National Archive of Criminal Justice Data | ICPSR, University of Michigan |
| NADP – National Atmospheric Deposition Program | National Atmospheric Deposition Program |
| NAPA – North American Plant Atlas | Biota of North America Program (BONAP) |
| NATA – National Air Toxics Assessments | USEPA |
| National Atlas (service will be removed on September 30, 2014) | United States Department of the Interior |
| National Geochemical Survey | US Geological Survey |
| NAWQA – National Water-Quality Assessment Program | US Geological Survey |
| NCHS – National Center for Health Statistics Data | CDC |
| NCI State Cancer Profiles | NCI (National Cancer Institute), NIH |
| NED – National Elevation Dataset | US Geological Survey |
| NGA – National Geochemical Atlas | USGS |
| NHAPS – The National Human Activity Pattern Survey | USEPA |
| NHPN – National Highway Planning Network | US Department of Transportation |
| NLCD – National Land Cover Dataset | US Geological Survey |
| NMFS – National Marine Fisheries Service | NOAA |
| NWIS – National Water Information System | US Geological Survey |
| OpenStreetMap (“OpenStreetMap is […] data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world”) | OpenStreetMap team |
| READY – Real-time Environmental Applications and Display sYstem (Current and forecast meteorological data; Archived data also available) | Air Resources Laboratory, NOAA |
| Soil Data Mart (see Web Soil Survey) | USDA NRCS |
| SSURGO – Soil Survey Geographic Database | USDA NRCS |
| Statistical Abstract | US Census Bureau |
| STATSGO/ U.S. General Soil Map | USDA NRCS |
| STORET – STOrage and RETrieval | USEPA |
| Taxonomic Data Center | Biota of North America Program (BONAP) |
| TIGER – Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing | US Census Bureau |
| US Census Population Database | US Census Bureau |
| US Economic Census | US Census Bureau |
| US Health Map (Interactive Health Trends Map of US at County level for both Genders) | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) |
| Weather Underground (Current and historical weather forecasts and reports from across the world) | The Weather Channel, LLC |
| Web Soil Survey | USDA |
| WebGIS (A Geographic Information System Resource) | Lakes Enviornmental Software |
| WHO Global Health Observatory Map Gallery | World Health Organization (WHO) |
| WQN – Water Quality Network | US Geological Survey |
Release Mapping/Modeling
Mapping or modeling environmental releases of chemical, biological and radiological agents
Computational Analysis Tools
| Resource | Developer |
|---|---|
| ALOHA – Areal Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres | NOAA |
| ALOHA (Areal Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres) ArcMap Import Tools | US NOAA Office of Response and Restoration |
| BEIS – Biogenic Emission Inventory System | USEPA |
| CAMEO MARPLOT (Mapping applications for response, planning, and local operational tasks) | USEPA and NOAA |
| DMR Pollutant Loading Tool – Discharge Monitoring Report Pollutant Loading Tool | USEPA |
| EMS-HAP – Emissions Modeling System for Hazardous Pollutants | USEPA |
| Envirofacts (provides environmental information at a local area of interest) | USEPA |
| Enviromapper for Envirofacts (“provides […] information about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land anywhere in the US”) | USEPA |
| EnvStats – Package for Environmental Statistics, including US EPA Guidance | S.P. Millard |
| EQuIS (“Environmental data management”) | EarthSoft Inc. |
| IDEA – Infusing satellite Data into Environmental air quality Applications | NASA- EPA-NOAA partnership |
| i-SVOC (“application for dynamic modeling of the emissions, transport, sorption, and distribution of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in the indoor environment”) | USEPA |
| LandGEM – Landfill Gas Emissions Model | USEPA |
| MCIP – Meteorology-Chemistry Interface Processor | USEPA |
| MEGAN – Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature | NCAR Earth System Laboratory |
| MOBILE | USEPA |
| MOVES – Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator | USEPA |
| SMOKE – Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions | CMAS Center, UNC-Chapel Hill |
| TANKS | USEPA |
| TOXMAP | Division of Specialized Information Services, US National Library of Medicine |
Information Portals and Databases
Environmental Fate and Transport
Environmental fate and transport characterization
Computational Analysis Tools
| Resource | Developer |
|---|---|
| 3DFEMWATER/ 3DLEWASTE – Three-Dimensional Finite Element Model of Water Flow/ Three-Dimensional Lagrangian-Eulerian Finite Element Model of Waste Transport | USEPA |
| Acts/ Risk – Analytical Contaminant Transport Analysis System/ Health Risk Analysis Software | M. M. Aral et al., Georgia Institute of Technology, GA |
| AERMOD – AMS/EPA Regulatory Model | USEPA |
| AGDISP – AGricultural DISPersal | USDA Forest Service |
| AgDRIFT | USEPA, USDA Forest Service and Spray Drift Task Force |
| AGWA – Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment | USEPA, USDA and University of Arizona |
| ALOHA – Areal Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres | NOAA |
| ALOHA (Areal Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres) ArcMap Import Tools | US NOAA Office of Response and Restoration |
| AQTESOLV – AQuifer TEst SOLVer | HydroSOLVE, Inc. |
| AQUATOX (“simulation model for aquatic systems”) | USEPA and R. Park, Ecomodeling |
| AquiferWin32 | ESI Ltd. |
| ASPEN – Assessment System for Population Exposure Nationwide | USEPA |
| BASINS – Better Assessment Science Integrating point & Non-point Sources | USEPA |
| CALPro (CALPUFF, CALMET) | Atmospheric Studies Group at TRC |
| CalTOX | California DTSC |
| CAMx – Comprehensive Air Quality Model with Extensions | Environ |
| CE-QUAL-W2 | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Portland State University |
| ChemStat (“statistical analysis of ground water monitoring data at RCRA facilities”) | Starpoint Software Inc. |
| CMAQ – Community Multi-scale Air Quality modeling system | CMAS Center, UNC-Chapel Hill |
| COMMUTER | USEPA |
| DFLOW | USEPA |
| DMR Pollutant Loading Tool – Discharge Monitoring Report Pollutant Loading Tool | USEPA |
| EFDC – Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code | Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary (J. M. Hamrick) and USEPA |
| EMSOFT – Exposure Model for Soil-Organic Fate and Transport | RTP |
| EnvStats – Package for Environmental Statistics, including US EPA Guidance | S.P. Millard |
| EPANET (“Models the Hydraulic and Water Quality Behavior of Water Distribution Piping Systems”) | USEPA |
| EPI – Estimation Program Interface Suite – suite of physical/chemical property and environmental fate estimation programs | USEPA |
| EQuIS (“Environmental data management”) | EarthSoft Inc. |
| EXAMS – Exposure Analysis Modeling System | USEPA |
| FACT – Flow And Contaminant Transport | Savannah River Technology Center and US DOE |
| FIRST – FQPA Index Reservoir Screening Tool | USEPA |
| FOCUS – FOrum for Co-ordination of pesticide fate models and their USe | FOCUS team, EU Commission |
| FRAMES-3MRA – Multimedia, Multi-pathway, Multi-receptor Exposure and Risk Assessment | USEPA |
| GARR – Gross Alpha Radium Regulation | USEPA |
| GasSim (“simulates the fate of landfill gas arising from managed or unmanaged landfill sites”) | Golder Associates and Environment Agency of England and Wales |
| GBPCALC – Gross Beta Photon Calculator | USEPA |
| GENEEC2 – Generic Estimated Environmental Concentration | USEPA |
| GMS – Groundwater Modeling System | Aquaveo |
| Groundwater Vistas (“3D groundwater flow and contaminant transport modeling, calibration and optimization using the MODFLOW suite of codes”) | Groundwater Vistas development team |
| HPAC – Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability | DTRA – Defense Threat Reduction Agency |
| HSPF – Hydrological Simulation Program – FORTRAN | USEPA |
| HYPACT – Hybrid Particle And Concentration Transport Model | ATMET |
| HYSPLIT – Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory Model | NOAA Air Resources Laboratory |
| IAQX – Simulation Tool Kit for Indoor Air Quality and Inhalation Exposure | USEPA |
| IGSM – Integrated Global System Model | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and USEPA |
| IsoConc | USEPA |
| IsoSource | USEPA |
| i-SVOC (“application for dynamic modeling of the emissions, transport, sorption, and distribution of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in the indoor environment”) | USEPA |
| KABAM – Kow (based) Aquatic BioAccumulation Model | USEPA |
| LSPC – Loading Simulation Program in C++ | USEPA |
| MAGICC/SCENGEN – Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change/Scenario Generator | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| MEASURE – Mobile Emissions Assessment System for Urban and Regional Evaluation | Georgia Institute of Technology and USEPA |
| MENTOR-1A – Modeling ENvironment for TOtal Risk studies in a One Atmosphere setting | Computational Chemodynamics Laboratory |
| MENTOR-4M – Modeling ENvironment for TOtal Risk studies for Multiple co-occurring contaminants and Multimedia, Multipathway, Multiroute exposures | Computational Chemodynamics Laboratory |
| MEPAS – Multimedia Environmental Pollutant Assessment System | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| MESOPUFF – Mesoscale Puff Model | USEPA |
| MINTEQA2 | USEPA and Jerry Allison, Computer Sciences Corp. |
| MM5 or PSU/NCAR mesoscale model | Pennsylvania State University National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Models-3 Technical Support Forum | CMAS Center |
| Modflow | US Geological Survey |
| MT3DMS – Modular 3-D Multi-Species Transport model (previously MT3D) | S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc. and USEPA |
| NWPCAM – Nation Water Pollution Control Assessment Model | USEPA |
| P2P – Pollution Prevention Progress (see TRACI) | USEPA |
| PCRAMMET | USEPA |
| PEARL – Pesticide Emission Assessment at Regional and Local scales, GeoPEARL | Alterra, PBL and RIVM |
| PFAM – Pesticides in Flooded Application Model | USEPA |
| PRZM – Pesticide Root Zone Model | USEPA |
| PRZM/EXAMS Shell | USEPA |
| PRZM-GW | USEPA |
| QUAL2E (Enhanced Stream Water Quality model) | Tufts University and USEPA |
| QUAL2K – River and Stream Water Quality Model | USEPA |
| QUIC – Quick Urban & Industrial Complex | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| RAMS – Regional Atmospheric Modeling System | ATMET, LLC |
| REMSAD – Regional Modeling System for Aerosols and Deposition | ICF Consulting |
| RESRAD – RESidual RADioactive | Argonne National Laboratory |
| RPM-AERO (Modelling platform for studying photochemical gaseous and aerosol phase processes) | Computational Chemodynamics Laboratory |
| R-UNSAT | USGS |
| SCIPUFF – Second-order Closure Integrated PUFF Model | Titan Products |
| SIP – Screening Imbibition Program (“model to estimate chemical exposure from drinking water alone in birds and mammals”) | USEPA |
| SMS – Surface Water Modeling System | Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory |
| SWCC – Surface Water Concentration Calculator | USEPA |
| TerrPLANT | USEPA |
| Tier 1 Rice Model (“estimate surface water exposure from the use of pesticides in rice paddies”) | USEPA |
| TOXSWA – TOXic substances in Surface WAters | TOXSWA team |
| TRACI – Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and other Environmental Impacts (previously, P2P) | USEPA |
| UAM-V – Urban Airshed Model-V | ICF International and USEPA |
| Unmix | USEPA |
| USEtox – UNEP-SETAC (Life Cycle Initiative) Tox | USEtox development team |
| VLEACH | Dynamac Corporation and USEPA |
| WASP – Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program | USEPA |
| WATERSHEDSS – WATER, Soil, and Hydro- Environmental Decision Support System | North Carolina State University and USEPA |
| WhAEM2000 | USEPA |
| WMS – Watershed Modeling System | Aquaveo |
| WRF – The Weather Research & Forecasting Model | WRF Consortium |
| WRF User’s Forum | WRF User’s Forum Team |
| WRF-Chem – WRF weather prediction coupled with chemistry | WRF-Chem development team |
Information Portals and Databases