GIS Center Information

GIS Center Location

The GIS Center is now located in our newly expanded lab space in KL 330 in the Kolligian Library. Our new lab accommodates dedicated workstations for resarchers and drop-in support for geospatial analysis, software techncial support and data management projects.

Kolligian Library KL330 Map

Computing Hardware

The computing hardware in the GIS Center has eight Alienware workstations running:

• Intel® Core™ i7-7700K Processor (4-Cores, 8MB Cache, Turbo Boost 2.0, Overclocked up to 4.4GHz),
• Video Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti with 12GB GDDR5X
• 64GB (4x16G) 2400MHz DDR4 Memory and 256GB M.2 PCIe SSD (Boot) 
• 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s of hard drive storage.
• Workstations are equipped with two 17” monitors or one 35” curved display for superior visualization. 

Software

GIS software including ArcGIS and QGIS are installed on all machines with regular updates. Other programs including R and Microsoft Office are installed for our users. The GIS lab also has a 55" Samsung Smart Tablet / Whiteboard to use for interactive mapping demonstrations and group consultations.

Please see our LibGuide on downloading and installing ArcGIS Pro desktop software.