GISci Lab
The GISci Lab, located on the 2nd floor of the Physical Sciences Building (room 2020), is used to instruct Â鶹´«Ã½ enrolled in courses related to Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing. The lab provides modern tools and techniques for teaching, research, and training geographers. The lab is used by Â鶹´«Ã½ and faculty to study and better understand issues such as:
- population studies
- crime analysis
- business/market analysis and site selection
- sustainable energy resources
- agricultural landscape change
Hardware:
- 20 fully functional computing stations
- color and black & white printers
- Canon iPF8300S large format plotter
- Contex large format scanner
- GPS equipment (survey & mapping grade)
Software:
- ArcMap®, used primarily to view, edit, create, and analyze geospatial data.
- ArcCatalog®, which provides an integrated and unified view of all the data files, databases and ArcGIS documents available to ArcGIS users.
- ArcGlobe®, allowing users to view and analyze very large amounts of 3D GIS data seamlessly and with extremely fast display speeds.
- ArcScene®, which allows you to overlay many layers of data in a 3D environment.
- ENVI®, software to process and analyze all types of geospatial imagery and data.
- MapViewer®, an affordable mapping and spatial analysis tool that allows you to easily produce publication-quality thematic maps.
- Free and Open Source software including QGIS, R, PyScripter
For more information, please contact Dr. Barry Kronenfeld or Dr. Dave Viertel.
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