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15-1199.04 — Geospatial Information Scientists and Technologists

The current Tools and Technology examples for this occupation are listed below. Please add your suggested examples to the appropriate category. When you are finished, click the Send Feedback button at the bottom of this page.

Tools

Computer servers
Desktop computers
Global positioning system receivers
  • Global positioning system GPS devices
Notebook computers
  • Laptop computers
Personal computers
Radarbased surveillance systems
  • Light detection and ranging LIDAR systems
  • Synthetic aperture radar SAR

Technology

Analytical or scientific software
  • Agronomic modeling software
  • Coordinate geometry COGO software
  • ESRI ArcGIS Spatial Analyst
  • Hydrological modeling software
  • Landmark Graphics GeoGraphix software
  • SAS software
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
Application server software
  • ESRI ArcSDE
Computer aided design CAD software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD software
  • Bentley Microstation
Data base user interface and query software
  • ADO.NET
  • dBASE
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • National Land Cover Database NLCD
  • Oracle software
  • Soil Survey Geographic SSURGO
  • State Soil Geographic STATSGO Database
  • Structured query language SQL
Development environment software
  • Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
  • List processing language LISP
  • Microsoft Visual Basic
  • Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBA
Graphics or photo imaging software
  • Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop software
Internet browser software
  • Web browser software
Map creation software
  • CDA International Manifold System
  • ESRI ArcGIS software
  • ESRI ArcInfo
  • ESRI ArcPad
  • ITT Visual Information Solutions ENVI
  • Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
Mobile location based services software
  • Global positioning system GPS software
Object or component oriented development software
  • C++
  • Microsoft Visual C#
  • Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
  • Python
  • R
  • Sun Microsystems Java
Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office software
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Web platform development software
  • Hypertext markup language HTML
  • Microsoft ASP.NET
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word

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