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The Everglades R-EMAP project for year 2005 produced large quantities of data collected at 232 sampling sites. Data collection and analysis is an on-going long-term activity conducted by scientists of different disciplines at irregular intervals of several years. The data sets collected for 2005 include biogeo-chemical (including mercury and hydro period), fish, invertebrate, periphyton, and plant data. Each sampling site is associated with a location, a description of the site to provide a general overview and photographs to provide a pictorial impression. The Geographic Information Systems Center (GIS Center) at Florida International University (FIU) has designed and implemented an enterprise database for longterm storage of the project's data in a central repository, providing the framework of data storage for Inventory of Digital Libraries 41 the continuity of future sampling campaigns and allowing integration of new sample data as it becomes available. In addition GIS Center provides this interactive web application for easy, quick and effective retrieval and visualization of that data.

The history, culture and people of Miami Beach. An informational and educational site introducing Miami Beach — the sounds, artifacts and images that make it the international center it has become.

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 urban landscape. In partnership with researchers at Florida International University, the North American Orchid Conservation Center, local municipalities and over 100 local schools, Fairchild is propagating large quantities of native orchid plants from seed.

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 Inventory of Digital Libraries 38 freshwater meets saltwater along the Florida coast, a hotspot for sea level rise effects. FCE researchers study how hydrology, climate, and human activities affect ecosystem and population dynamics in the ecotone and, more broadly, the Florida coastal Everglades. Daniel Gann and Jennifer Richards are providing a landscape context for some of this ongoing research in the southeastern coastal Everglades. Using WorldView-2 2x2 m pixel satellite imagery, supplemented by LIDAR data where available, they are mapping a 1-km-wide belt around six pre-existing, long-term nutrient- and salinity-monitoring transects that stretch from freshwater marshes in the north to mangrove mashes in the south, crossing the oligohaline ecotone. Vegetation class percent cover derived from these maps will be used to estimate vegetation biomass, relying on pre-existing and/or literature data for estimates of standing stock per unit area.

This interactive mapping using elevation data from the Google Elevation Service, and based on LIDAR elevation data from State of Florida Division of Emergency Management LiDAR project. The app's main feature is an interactive sea level rise viewer where users can enter an address to visualize how up to a 6ft increase in sea level may affect their neighborhoods.

A GIS project from the GIS Center at FIU.

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 collection of film copies of Dr. Harold R. Wanless. The FIU GIS Center is responsible for digitization and creation of the download website. The project was funded by USGS. Each point represents a set of multi-lens photographs. A pop-up window provides a link to download the images. A significant number of collection images were copied on 35mm black and white film. They were scanned at 2400 dpi with a dedicated film scanner.

An Island Luminous is a site to help readers learn about Haiti’s history. Created by historian Adam M. Silvia and hosted online by Digital Library of the Caribbean, An Island Luminous combines rare books, manuscripts, and photos scanned by archives and libraries in Haiti and the United States with commentary by over one hundred (100) authors from universities around the world.

SSRN collection of faculty working papers for the Florida International University (FIU) College of Law.

This web application includes: 1) Top 20 Pedestrian Crash Locations; 2) FDOT Crash Reporting Too; 3) FDOT Online Document Portal; 4) GIS Data Collection for Pedestrian Safety Tool. FIU-GIS Center handles data collection and the web development of the interactive website.