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Landscape Characterization &
Spatial Analysis Laboratory


 
 

The Spatial Analysis Lab is housed on the third floor of Saunders Hall.  As of January 1999 the labs have undergone an extensive renovation that have improved the climate of the lab with the addtion of new lights, carpet and furniture.

The facilities of the lab consist mainly of Sun Microsystems UNIX workstations as the primary computing platform, and are supported by DELL Intel-based Personal Computers using the Windows NT operating system. The labs include access to various input and output devices as well as a collection of field  equipment and software.

The Spatial Analysis Labs, as well as the rest of Saunders Hall, is wired internally to support the latest network technology. Buidling wide wiring was installed in 1993 with Category 5 UTP cable to support data transfer speeds of 155mb/sec and all offices and labs are supported with the minimum of 10BaseT switched Ethernet. With the help of our on campus networking support group, the Spatial Analysis Labs have been able to take advantage of Fast Ethernet 100BaseT technology for those platforms that support it.

Currently the Spatial Analysis group uses approximatly 70 gigabytes of on-line storage which is served by a Sun Microsystems SPARCstation 10 NFS file server. In addtion to this resource, the lab has recently included services provided by ATN via the Distributed Computing Initiative and now gains access to RAID 5 file service and a large base of public domian software, compilers and software development tools, and statistical and mathematical packages. In addtion to internal departmental resources any student in the lab may make use of other on-campus resources such as public computer labs and the statistical and compute platforms (a Sun Enterprise 6000 with 12 CPUs and 5GB of RAM and a SGI Origin 2000 with 16 CPUs and 8GB of RAM respectively) maintained by the University.
 
 

Available Workstations:

     
  • Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC 10 Creator3D workstation (3)
  • Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC 170/E Creator workstation (2)
  • Sun Microsystems SPARCstation 20 workstation (1)
  • Sun Microsystems SPARCstation 10 workstation (3)
  • DELL Intel 300Mhz Dimension Workstation (2)
  • Apple Power Macintosh G3 (1)
  • Macintosh and 840 AV

Input/Output Devices:

     
  • Tektronix Phaser 360 Color Ink Jet Printer
  • Hewlett-Packard HP 4000TN Monochrome Laser Printer
  • Hewlett-Packard DesignJet 750C Large Format Ink Jet Plotter
  • Calcomp 9500 Large Format 36" x 48" Digitizing Tablet
  • Polaroid Slide Scanner
  • Polaroid Film Printer
  • 4mm and 8mm Tape Drives
  • Recordable CD-ROM Drive
  • Epson 836XL Large Format Color Scanner
  • 1 Calcomp 1025 pen plotter 
  • 1 Sun SPARCprinter E B&W Laser Printer
  • 1 Sun CD-ROM reader, 1 Sun SPARCprinter E Black and White Laser Printer 
  • 1 Apple LaserWriter Black and White Laser Printer 
  • Exabyte 210 8 mm Tape Library System
  • Epson 836 XL color image scanner

Field and Spectral Equipment:

     
  • Trimble Navigation GeoExplorer II GPS Unit (4)
  • DELL Intel Portable NoteBook Computers (3)
  • Li-Cor 1800 SpectraRadiometer
  • Sony Mavica Digital Camera
  • Sony 8mm Video Camera
  • JVC TV
  • JVC VCR
  • Spectraoradiometer 300-1100nm

    • LI-1800 Carrying Case
    LI-1800/DOS
    LI-1800 PC/AT Cable
    Fiber Optic Probe
    Remote Cosine Receptor
    Integrating Sphere,PWR Supply
    Plant Canopy Analyzer System
    Plant Canopy Analyzer Sensor
    LAI Console
    Extension Cable for LAI-2050
    Quantum Sensor
    Portable Terminal
    LI-190SA Quantum Sensor (10 ft)
    LI-250 Light Meter
    #2290 MV Adapter
    #2003S Mounting/Leveling
    #2222SB Extension Cable (50ft)
    LI-1400 Data Logger
    #1400-320 Storage Case
    #1400-310 LI-1400 Mounting Brack
    #1400-403 LI-1400 Ex. Battery Pack
    #1400-550 RS-232 DTE
  • Topcon Mirror Stereoscope 
  • Campbell Data logger systems 
  • Sony mavica digital camera 
  • Minolta Vectis 300 Camera (2) 
  • Walkie-talkies, tarp, and miscel field equip. 
  • Canon printer/copier/scanner 
  • CD Writeable System 

Software:

     
  • ARC/INFO 7.2.1
  • ArcView 3.1
  • ERDAS Imagine 8.3
  • PCI 6.2
  • ESRI Institutional Site License (e.g. ARC/INFO and ARCVIEW) 
  • ERDAS Imagine 8.3 (23 seats); ERDAS Orthomax and Sub-Pixel (1) 
  • ER Mapper 5.1 (10 seats) 
  • IPW 
  • AVS 5.0.2 (1 seat), GRASS 4.1 (5 seats), SAS 6.0.9 (25 seats), S-Plus 3.2 (25 seats) 
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Palm Pilot III
  • Claris Works
  • Palm III Modem
  • Endnotes
  • Access database
  • Apple Colorsync 17 inch display
  • Fragstats Software (1)
  • Multimedia and videography