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Campus GIS News

Spatial Analyst Research Lab, now open
Dec. 3, 2007

The Anthropology department is pleased to announce the opening of the Spatial Analysis Research Lab (SARL) located in Garland Hall, Room 10.  SARL is an advanced Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) facility intended for faculty, research staff, and graduate students who are experienced GIS/RS users, with the purpose of providing high-powered workstations and mass-storage systems for analyzing large datasets and executing computationally-intensive geospatial procedures. 


Spatial Analyst Research Lab Blog
Oct. 26, 2007

The VU Spatial Analysis Research Lab now has a blog site. This is a great place to keep up with various GIS topics on and off campus, software updates, and general GIS happenings. You can check out the new site here.


You can help improve GIS and CIC instruction!
Oct. 23, 2007

If you have been to a presentation or a training session conducted by the GIS and CIC staff, please take a moment to help us improve our services by filling out the short Survey.


Global Positioning System Unit available for checkout
Aug. 20, 2007

The library has purchaced a Garmin GPSMap handheld GPS unit which is now available for checkout from the Peabody Library. The unit is user friendly and great for hikes, GPS games, and a wide variety of research and data collection purposes. Check the GPS page for more info.


ArcView in Peabody Library Learning Commons and Arts & Sciences Microcomputer Labs

Aug. 20, 2007

ArcView (including ArcMap, ArcCatalog, and ArcToolbox with extensions) has been installed on the machines in the Peabody Library, room 304. There are 18 workstations and one instructor station with projection, making the Learning Commons the perfect place for classroom GIS instruction. Email Jacob to reserve the room for your class. ArcView has also been installed on 2 machines in the Science and Engineering Library Map room, and upgraded to version 9.2 in the Stevenson Computer Classroom and the Garland Hall Lab.


New Maps Page
May 10 , 2007

Several maps produced at Vanderbilt, both by students and the GIS and CIC service, are now available for your viewing pleasure on the new Maps page.


ESRI Site License
Mar. 19, 2007

The campus ESRI product license is now in effect. This means every student, faculty and staff member at Vanderbilt can access ArcGIS software and software training at no cost. Check out the new Services page on our site for more info.


Campus GIS Listserv
Feb. 2 , 2007

We have started a Vanderbilt GIS listserv for all of your campus GIS news, sent straight to your inbox. The list is low traffic thus far and you can unsubscribe at any time.
Sign up for the GIS listserv - put "GIS Subscribe" as the subject line or "GIS Unsubscribe" to be removed from the list.

 

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