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Geographical data are related to a location on the Earth and can often be presented as maps. Other names for geographical data are geodata, geospatial data or GIS data. As a student or staff at Lund University, you have access to various licensed geographical data. But there are also many freely available resources. Use the left hand menus for more information. Note that geographical data, in any
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/geographical-data - 2026-04-21
A national agreement gives you as a student, teacher or researcher access to licensed geodata from a number of Swedish agencies. The agreement covers utilization of data for non commercial research and/or formal education at LU, both for download and as web map services (WMS) for visualisation. Data are available from:Lantmäteriet (Swedish Surveying and Cadastral Agency),Sveriges geologiska unders
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/geographical-data/geodata-available-lund-university - 2026-04-21
Note that pictures/maps found on the Internet are often copyright protected. This means that they can only be utilized for private, personal use, and may not be published without the creator’s approval. Some sources are allowed to be used for educational purposes and some for other non commercial usage. Check the Term of use at each data site! The site list below is a mix of sites with everything
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/geographical-data/geographical-data-everyone - 2026-04-21
Aerial photo service The aerial photos from 1940 can now be downloaded direct from this homepage for free. This has been made possible by Lantmäteriet who has, from autumn 2014, droped all restrictions regarding use and distribution of these images. Referencing to the images:Production: LantmäterietScanning, rectifying and Internet distribution: GIS centre, Lund university.The images are now defin
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/geographical-data/skane-above-aerial-photographs-1940s-internet - 2026-04-21
Desktop products from ESRI like ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro can be downloaded from gissoftware.gis.lu.se. This page also includes instructions on installation and how you get a license. Licenses are provided to students and employees at contributing departments.Contact techsupport [at] gis [dot] lu [dot] se (GIS Techsupport) if you want other ESRI products. Note that our site license with ESRI d
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/gis-software - 2026-04-21
GIS Center, with its advanced infrastructure and skilled staff, provides a wide variety of GIS/SDI/Geomatics services. They include internal services to the faculties, departments and centers in Lund University as well as external services to companies, organizations, and institutes within and outside Sweden. GIS Centre has already close collaboration with different organizations and universities
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/services - 2026-04-21
The GIS Center is a partner in the publication of the most read GIS-book in Swedish: Geographical Information Systems - theory, methods and applications. The sixth edition was released in august 2013. Lars Harrie at the GIS-centre has been the editor of the book and many of the co-authors are working at the centre (Lars Eklund, Karin Larsson and Petter Pilesjö). The book can be bought in the books
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/books - 2026-04-21
Here you can find ongoing research projects at the GIS-centre. Accessibility statement
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/projects-and-research - 2026-04-21
Lund University’s GIS Centre was officially established in 1993 to initiate a better collaboration between departments, teachers and researchers regarding the use of geographical information technology. The Centre’s main task is to encourage and facilitate the use of GIS within the university. To this day, our activities have been very successful, and all Faculties now acknowledge the usefulness
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/about-gis-centre - 2026-04-21
GIS stands for Geographical Information Systems, which are computer-based systems used to assemble, store, manipulate, edit, display and analyse geographically referenced information and associated attributes. In a GIS, all features composing the maps are coded and stored with coordinates describing their location, while attribute data (extra information associated to the map features) can be sa
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/what-gis - 2026-04-21
Introduction to GIS Vector structure Vector analysis Raster structure Raster analysis GIS applications Coordinates and map projections Databases Geospatial information technology in China GIS and accessibility GIS and health GIS and hydrology GIS and tourism GIS in developing countries GNSS Inspire Internet and GIS Introduction to SDI Introduction to Internet-GIS Open Source Libraries Optical remo
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/what-gis/gis-lectures - 2026-04-21
File formats define in which way the geographical features are stored. Raster and vector data are stored in different formats.There are numerous formats available for both raster and vector data. It is important to consider the file format of GIS data because software programs rarely support all file types. If you want to use GIS data that was saved in a particular format not supported by your GIS
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/geographical-data/file-format-gis - 2026-04-21
Here, you will find some links to websites related to GIS. Note that more sites are listed in the section “Geographical Data” in the menu to the left.Please feel free to contact us to share your favourite websites. Email: techsupport [at] gis [dot] lu [dot] se (GIS Techsupport)Test GISOn these sites, GIS is demonstrated with a few examples, and there are even a few opportunities to “test” GIS in v
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/what-gis/gis-links - 2026-04-21
Postal address: GIS Centre, Sölvegatan 12, SE-223 62 LUNDVisiting address: Sölvegatan 10Internal mail: Internal mail 16Homepage: www.gis.lu.seMap showing where GIS Centre is situated. petter [dot] pilesjo [at] gis [dot] lu [dot] se (Petter Pilesjö), ProfessorDirector, +46 46 222 96 54The Director of the GIS Centre. karin [dot] larsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Karin Larsson), M.Sc.GIS tea
https://www.gis.lu.se/contact-us - 2026-04-21
In most cases you want to insert maps you have found or created with geographic data into some document such as an article or report. Below is a step wise instruction with some examples. The simplest and quickest way to get a map is to copy it from an Internet source (be aware of copyright). Do this by right-clicking on the image in your web browser and choose copy/copy image from the pop-up menu.
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/geographical-data/tips-tricks/insert-maps-documents - 2026-04-21
This section will continuously be filled with short descriptions of common tasks and problems regarding maps, geographical data and GIS. Accessibility statement
https://www.gis.lu.se/gis-centre/geographical-data/tips-tricks - 2026-04-21
Copying and Inserting an ImageThe following example uses the word processor MS Word or OpenOffice Writer (PC) and Firefox web browser.Find the link Open Streetmap under the heading Sweden, found in Geographical Data > For Everyone, and click on it.Choose a zoom level so you can see the whole area of interest (here Skåne).Choose Export in the upper part of the map window.Choose to Manually select a
https://www.gis.lu.se/retrieve-map-skane-and-inserting-it-document - 2026-04-21
Copying and Inserting an ImageThe following example uses the word processor MS Word or OpenOffice Writer (PC) and Firefox web browser.Find the link d-maps.com under the heading World, found in Geographical Data > For Everyone, and click on it.At d-maps.com you can choose from a number of maps. When clicking on the small map you find suitable, you will get a large version of that map on your screen
https://www.gis.lu.se/retrieve-map-venezuela-and-inserting-it-document - 2026-04-21
PhD & MSc Positions Six PhD and Two MSc Opportunities under Sida Research Project:GIT for Disaster and Natural Resource Management Sub-program at EMU 2017-2021 The Sida Research Project, GIT for disaster and natural resource management sub-program is a five-year research project funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and the Swedish Embassy in Mozambique. The GIT sub-pro
https://www.gis.lu.se/emu - 2026-04-21
Responsible partner: Research topic and aims:This project will include data collection on the livelihood types, water resources, and potential short term and long term physical risk factors. All data will be collected with a focus of being used and analyzed in GIS. The first aim of this project is to estimate spatial flooding potential of standalone and joint extreme events. The second aim is to a
