Tools & Scripts

GIS Scripts and Programs
- PDS, ISIS2,3, VICAR Image Header Parsers (PERL scripts)
- C and Fortran (Source Code)
ArcMap 9.x
- Calculate Geodesic Areas/Length (ArcMap Plug-in, prelim. Instructions PDF)
- Batch Image Toolbox (ArcMap toolbox)
- Geodesic measurement tool (ArcMap plug-in)
- Lat/Lon display (ArcMap plug-in)
- Image Catalog Builder (ArcMap plug-in)
- Copy & Paste Image Symbology (ArcMap plug-in)
ArcView 3.x
- ArcView 3.x Extensions and Scripts
Free GIS/Image Viewers
- ArcExplorer Java 9.3.1
  - Windows, Sun Solaris, UNIX, LINUX, MacOSX
  - Display PIGWAD Online sites.
- Global Mapper (Windows)
  - Supports planetary radiuses!
  - Great for MOLA data
- Quantum GIS (QGIS)
- UDIG (Windows, MacOS X, Linux)
- Mirone (Windows stand-alone, other OSs require matlab)
- SAGA GIS
- GRASS (Windows, MacOS X, Linux, ...)
- FWTools (Windows, Linux)
- OpenEV
  - Windows, Linux, MacOS X, Solaris, Irix, and possibly for MacOS X (source available).
  - DEM viewing, Image conversions, shapefile editing
- LandSerf
  - Windows, Linux, MacOS X, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, UNIX
  - DEM viewing, profiling, shading, contouring, 3D viewer
- PCI Geomatics FreeView (Windows)
- TNTLite
  - Windows, Macintosh
3D Viewers
- 3DEM (Windows)
  - Visualization package which can directly read PDS MOLA data
- Interactively fly over Mars.
  - GeoFusion Mars Demo (windows)
  - 3D Web enabled
    - G-Vista 3 Geonova (mars example)
    - Virtual Globe using Java3D by SINTEF

Free GIS Programs
- GMT - Generic Mapping Tools
- GRASS - Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
Links
- “GIS Viewing Tools You Shouldn't Be Without!” by GeoCommunity.
- FreeGIS - a site with links to lots of free software and viewers for GIS users

U.S.G.S. Planetary GIS Web Server - PIGWAD