his website promotes the use of the free open source GIS software “”Integrated Land and Water Information System, ILWIS, the world&qout;s most user-friendly integrated software with raster processing capabilities to work on remotely sensed satellite images and vector processing capabilities for making vector maps and countless spacial modeling abilities. Its fully integrated raster and vector approach and user-friendlyness make it particularly suitable for natural resources managers, field scientists, biologists, ecologists, etc., as well as for educators. But don&qout;t be mistaken, ILWIS is incredibly versatile and powerful. Some of the key futures of ILWIS are:

Key features

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Vector and Raster capacity integrated into 1 software package
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Developed by an autonomous higher education institution under the Dutch government
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Initiated in 1984 with a subsidy from the Ministry of Development cooperation, ILWIS is one of the oldest GIS programmes around
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With both vector and raster integrated into one package, it takes less time to learn to use the programme
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Being developed by a training institute, ILWIS has always been tested for its user-friendliness for more than 2 decades on thousands of students
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The biggest savings in using ILWIS is in its greater use efficiency, thus saving costly production time
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Free open source software available for downloading by anyone
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More than 2 decades of development now continued by 52North, a consortium of open source developers
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No costly periodic updates required like for the commercial packages;
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Some of the greatest selections of import and export modules of widely used data formats
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On-screen and tablet digitizing
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Comprehensive set of image processing tools
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Orthophoto, image georeferencing, transformation and mosaicing
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Advanced modeling and spatial data analysis
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3D visualization with interactive editing for optimal view findings
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Rich projection and coordinate system library
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Geo-statistical analyses, with Kriging for improved interpolation
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Production and visualization of stereo image pairs
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Spatial Multiple Criteria Evaluation
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More than 2,000 pages in the help
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Very extensive training documents with training files
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WMS
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Surface energy balances