Download Types
GIS Data
Downloadable in ESRI® shapefile (.shp) formats and/or ARC Interchange (.e00) formats. These files include ArcView™ Themes, ArcInfo™ coverages and grids (ArcInfo grids or .dem).
Remote Sensing Imagery
Available data is downloadable in ERDAS® Imagine (.img) formats, GeoTIFF™, and/or Mr.SID (.sid) formats. Due to some licensing agreements many data sets owned by UMGC can NOT be made available for off-campus use. Therefore, these data sets (i.e. Landsat, Ikonos™, IRS, LIDAR™, etc.) are ONLY available in subset JPEG (.jpg) formats. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Plotter and PostScript Files
The UMGC is routinely creating archived PostScript and Plotter files of the file presentation of a project. These formats include HP Raster Transfer Language (.rtl) and Adobe® PostScript 3 (.ps3) formats. These files have been saved in many plotter sizes, page sizes and resolutions (dpi).
Utilities and Miscellaneous Files
There are many useful files used in at UMGC. Some of these file are informational downloads (i.e. orbital paths, FAQs, laboratory exercises) available in Adobe® Acrobat™ (.pdf) format. Others are projection files, ArcView Scripts, ArcView Extensions, etc.