Natural Resource Management
Spatial Technologies Lab

The NRM Spatial Technologies Lab was made possible from an educational grant from USDA-CSREES.  The Spatial Technologies Lab serves as a teaching lab for various classes and it’s primarily functions as a research lab for the Borderlands Research Institute.  Institute researchers have 24-7 swipe-card access to the Spatial Technologies Lab. 

Lab Services: 

• Classroom Instruction
• Workshops/Training
• Institute Research
• Poster Printing

Lab Equipment:

The Spatial Technologies Lab is ~500 sqft and contains the following research equipment:

• 17 Workstation (80 GB, 800 MHz with Microsoft Windows XP Professional, 17 Flat panel monitors, and battery back-ups)
• 2 Workstation (100 GB, 800 MHz with Microsoft Windows XP Professional, 17 Flat panel monitors, and battery back-ups
• Dell Power Edge Server (1.5 tetra-byte) and back-up system
• HP Designjet 1055cm Plus Plotter (E-size)
• HP Color Laserjet 4650n Printer
• HP Monochrome Laserjet 4100 Printer
• 2 flatbed scanners
• 1 high-resolution slide scanner
• 2 Trimble Geo-explorer III GPS
• 6 Garmin eTrex handheld GPS
• 2 6-mega-pixel digital cameras
• 1 ceiling mounted LCD projector and accompanying retractable screen
• The following software is also available on multiple or all workstations:
• ESRI (ARCMAP and various extensions)
• ERDAS Imagine 9 and accompanying photogrammetry suites
• MS Office Suite (Word, Powerpoint, Access, Excel, Outlook, Publisher)
• Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat, and Reader
• Ecological Methodology
• RAMAS GIS
• Pathfinder Office
• Stella