GIS Lab Director |
Business GIS Lab Director |
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Wesley Thomas, Ph.D. |
John Tachovsky, Ph.D. |
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| 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 |