Geographical Information System Laboratory

We have recently received funding from the National Science Foundation Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement program for the acquisition of a Geographical Information System (GIS) laboratory.

The GIS lab will be housed on the third floor of the Barton Warnock Science building. The primary purpose of the laboratory is to teach introductory GIS techniques at the sophomore level, and to allow these students use of the laboratory in other upper division classes.

The emphasis of the introductory class is to present an interdisciplinary approach, where students with a variety of backgrounds will work on projects with diverse data types. A secondary purpose of the lab is for upper division and graduate GIS classes and for faculty research.

The lab will consist of 10 networked PC computers running ESRI's ArcView GIS package. The computers will also be set up to do basic wordprocessing and spreadsheet applications. Other graphics applications will include Adobe photoshop, Corel Draw, Surfer and Sigmaplot.

See our NSF proposal project summary and a draft version of our floor plan.

Questions or comments? Contact Kevin Urbanczyk at kevinu@sulross.edu.

GIS Information

List of GIS server contents

Manual of GIS techniques

Page of utility downloads

Index of USGS quadrangles in West Texas

Common spatial conversions