GIS Lab Director

 

Business GIS Lab Director

Wesley Thomas, Ph.D.

 

John Tachovsky, Ph.D.

Sridevi Arava     Nisha Chandrashekar, Laura E. Konwinski
GIS Specialist   GIS Lab Graduate Assistants
     
     
 

Graduate and Undergraduate GIS Courses

Undergraduate

Introduction and Advanced courses in Geographic Information Systems cover data sources and analysis techniques used in the planning process, with an emphasis placed on appropriate applications. Students receive considerable experience in using geographic information systems technology to solve real-world problems.

Graduate

The graduate level Introduction and Advanced courses are conducted in a traditional graduate level seminar format. Students are required to complete several projects and labs throughout the course of the term. Students will also be required to make presentations pretaining to specific topics and actively participate in critiquing other students' projects and presentations.

 

Lab Resources

The Lab maintains "Industry Standard" software and hardware to ensure that students are well prepared to step into the workplace upon graduation.

Hardware Resources: Peripheral Hardware: Software:
Sun Ultra Enterprise 450 Server GTCO AccuTab Backlit Digitizer ARC/INFO (UNIX):
Sun Ultra1 Workstation Hewlett-Packard 755 Plotter *ArcEdit, ArcPlot, GRID, TIN, ArcPress
Sun Sparc5 Workstation Hewlett-Packard 2500Cse Inkjet Printer ArcGIS 9.0 & 9.1, ArcIMS, ArcSDE, ArcVIEW
Neoware Thin Client Workstations Hewlett-Packard Laser4M/MV Printer *Business Analyst, Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst
IBM 300GL PC's (400Mhz) Sony Digital Mavica Camera *Network Analyst, Image Analyst (ERDAS)
  Hewlett-Packard 7200 CD-Writer Plus BusinessMap Pro
  Light Table MapInfo Professional
  Epson PowerLite Projector *Vertical Mapper
    EZ-Site
    Hummingbird Exceed
    AutoCAD Release 13


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