News & Projects

The GIS Labs facilities and staff have been actively engaged in research with departments and institutions with highly diverse objectives. Those organizations include: Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, Economics, Biology, Political Science, the DeVoe Moore Center, and the Pepper Center.

The Lab has also volunteered time to assist such groups as the Florida Association of Voluntary Agencies for Caribbean Action (FAVA/CA) by providing training materials and teaching in Caribbean countries that are developing GIS infrastructure.

Recent News

Changes

The labs have recently been renovated. The lab in 320 has been made smaller (22 seats) and is now open for small class offerings and 24-7 access to selected groups and students. Another larger lab has been opened in room 035. This lab can accommodate up to 32 students. Other GIS facilities have been created for limited use of graduate students working on funded research projects in 242 and 231. Software and hardware is continuously upgraded to provide students and faculty alike with the best possible GIS and remote sensing facilities.

Less Recent News

During the summer of 2004 the GIS Lab will be upgrading some of its facilities in the teaching and research labs. Ten new workstations will be added to replace the ones that are approaching 3 years old. The new workstations will be more powerful than the ones currently in the lab. In addition, plans are being developed to add seats to the lab in the coming year. Also transportation modeling work will be improved by adding TransCad modeling software to the workstations in the lab. This acquisition is in part of a result of new faculty members Mark Horner (Geography) and Jeff Brown (Urban Planning) being specialists in the transportation modeling arena. These faculty members will also be offering new courses that will focus on transportation modeling and GIS applications in the realm of transportation planning and modeling.

In the summer of 2003, FSU GIS instructors and students participated in a "Training Abroad" program, in which they traveled to Dominica and helped to develop its GIS infrastructure. Dominica is an island of volcanic origins located between the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Eastern Caribbean.

Recent Projects

• Click here to view a Leon County Change Detection PowerPoint presentation.
• Click here to view a GPS data capture project in GEO4151 (low resolution 7mb .jpg).
• Click here to view a sample of the GPS attribute data captured for the project in GEO4151 (.pdf).
• Click here if you are having problems viewing the above GPS project files to download a compressed version in PDF format and then view it from your local computer.
• Click here to view a 3-D model of the site where Sam's Club is currently located in Leon County created with ArcScene using terrian models generated with 3-D Analyst.