The Center for Applied GIScience uses the latest specialized hardware and industry-standard software needed to collect, store, analyze, develop and distribute geographic data products and their derivatives.
Computing Hardware
- Clusters
- GEM: advanced computer cluster for GEospatial Modeling
- 64 computing cores [AMD
Opteron; 2.0 GHz of clock rate]
- 256GB memory [4GB/core]
- 6TB disk space
- Servers and workstations
- advanced GPU server
- Dell Precision T7500
Workstation
- CPU: Quad-core Intel Xeon,
2.53GHz, 12GB memory
- GPU: NVIDIA GTX580 (512 cores,
1.5G memory) and DVIDIA Quadro 2000 (192 cores, 1.0G memory)
- 1 HP Blade 3000 System
- 5 HP BL460c Workstation Blades
- 2 HP BL460c Server Blades
- AG Node pc (Dell precision 390)
- 16 Lab Workstation PCs
- 1 Dell Workgroup Server
- Mobile computing
- Technology for visualization and collaboration
- 70" flat LCD screen
- High-res video conferencing
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GPS Hardware
- PDA based
- Trimble GeoXM/XT
- mapping grade
- rugged shells
- Trimble ProXR
- survey grade
- Pole mounted antenna
- Real-time Laser Range Finder
- connects to GPS
- maps features remotely in field
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Computing Software
- GIS and Remote Sensing SW
- ESRI ArcGIS (full GIS)
- ESRI ArcPad (mobile GIS)
- IDRISI (full GIS)
- ENVI (remote sensing)
- ERDAS Imagine (remote sensing)
- R (GIS & spatial statistics)
- Statistical packages
- Database Management
- Oracle 9 (relational DB)
- SDE (middleware)
- GIS Web Services
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