UCGISMU- Facilities

Facilities

Library Holdings:

A vast array of books, documents and periodicals focusing on Geographic Information Science exist in Library System on the University of Missouri campus. The University of Missouri-Columbia library system includes the Ellis (main), Engineering, Geology, Health Sciences, Journalism, Law, Mathematical Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine libraries. The holdings total 3,164,268 volumes with 6,779,636 microforms. The system has a computerized card catalog and CD-ROMs for public use. A simple search of the MU holdings identified 73 books titled ’Geographic Information Systems’. It should be noted that this is only a minor selection of available GI Science materials. The MU Libraries collection is the largest in the state.

Digital Map / Image Holdings:

The Missouri Spatial Data Information Service (MSDIS) is the primary portal to geospatial information for the State of Missouri. The current vector data holdings that MSDIS provides access to total 10,885. MSDIS actually serves the data for 8,853 (80%) of these data files. As well, the image data holdings that MSDIS provides access to total 4,991. These imagery files include satellite as well as aerial imagery.

Natural Resources Spatial Data Analysis Lab Computing Facilities Summary:

Research and teaching laboratories are distributed across 15 units on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. These GI Science facilities include four teaching labs (2 in Geography (1 being mobile) and 2 in Natural Resources) with a total instructional (seating) capacity of 90 seats for individual instruction. Added to this number are the research facilities and their associated computing resources. Seven centers (out of 15) on campus provide over 128 seats for research and application. This number does not include single seat activities of individual researchers. These same seven facilities utilize over 20 servers for support of web applications, software servers, and database servers. The disk space across these facilities totals over 14 terrabytes.

The peripherals associated with these centers includes printers, plotters, scanners, tape backup, UPS, GPS units, and many other resources.

The software utilized include the ESRI suite of software (ArcGIS 8.x and 9.x, ArcIMS, ArcSDE, and ArcView 3.x) as well as AutoCad. Image processing software include ERDAS, PCI, ERMapper, and ENVI. Several other packages are also utilized for statistical analysis and modeling (AGNPS, CARE, S-Plus, SAS, and SPSS). Database management systems include Oracle, SQL Server, Access, and others.

Geospatial Computing / Research Facilities Available: