ABSTRACT
Remote Sensing and GIS has been regarded as an art or science of making measurements of the earth using sensors on airplanes or satellites. But with technology advances made today, this information is not only made available to cartographers, computer scientists, or other skilled scientists. Satellite imagery and open source software is made readily available to the public, making it possible for the “average user” to easily explore this field. The purpose of this research is to investigate these online software tools that offer an alternative to commercial products that are expensive. We accomplished this by downloading LandSat etm satellite imagery, ILWIS 3.6, MapWindow, Google Earth, kml2shapefile. Then using this geographic data and software, we attempted to manipulate the data and assessed the functions of the software.