Facilities

 

 
 The Mapping Sciences Laboratory (MSL) serves the entire college as a unit of Environmental Resources and Forest Engineering. The MSL is located in the basement of Bray Hall, principally in rooms 12, 13, and 14. The MSL is designed to meet the software and hardware needs of faculty, staff, and students in any of the disciplines related to mapping and geospatial analysis. The MSL specializes in several GIS systems, remote sensing and image processing , photogrammetry, and global positioning systems (GPS) and surveying. The MSL maintains multiple data sets including large numbers of topographic quadrangle maps (various scales),aerial photographs, satellite images (TM, Radar, Emerge) and Digital Elevation Models (DEMs).

 
 The Quantitative Studies Laboratory (QSL) is a university-based, computer resource facility designed to exploit the technological advances made in the computing industry as applied to natural resource problems. Areas into which we regularly delve include: population dynamics and estimation, modeling and simulation, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and the analysis of spatial data, applied natural resource management, population viability analysis, and habitat suitability modeling

 Laboratory for Applied GIS

 The Laboratory for Applied GIS is a unit of the Faculty of Forestry which carries out basic and applied research in the application of GIS technology to the areas of Forest and Environmental analysis and management. It supports PC based computing facilities for this work. Software includes PC ARCINFO, ArcView (with Spatial Analysist, 3D Analyst) Map Objects, IDRISI, and other systems. The lab works closely with the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Adirondack Park Agency, the Tug Hill Commission and others with an interest in applying GIS technology to their operations. The lab is located in Room 414 Bray Hall.

 
 The objective of the CAV Lab is to support the specialized computing needs of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture as well as those of the entire campus faculty by providing hardware and software not commonly available across campus. Dayton, the Director and head computer geek, with the aid of Graduate Assistants, have extended these goals and are shaping the CAV Lab to be a broad based computer use resource as well. The CAVLab can help you with graphic production, 3D modeling, document production, video conferencing, and video and sound editing.
 

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Last updated December 4, 2000