GIS at UMass-Lowell

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Contents 1 Current GIS Lab activity 1.1 Instructional resource development 1.2 Computational clusters for GIS and remote sensing analysis 1.3 Central Asia climatology

Current GIS Lab activity

January 27: The lab's PC systems are ready for SAS instruction. Mathematica 6 is not yet installed.

Alex 23:42, 27 January 2009 (EST)

Instructional resource development

• Access to
  • ESRI GIS software and training
  • Open source GIS software
  • MassGIS, USGS, NOAA, and other data archives
  • Internet mapservers: ArcIMS, UMN Mapserver (Win32, Linux)
• Web instruction support for 87.504

Computational clusters for GIS and remote sensing analysis

• WinXP mixed-use lab (scheduled instructional, student, computational use)
  • Cygwin powerstate and scheduling management (shutdown, cron, at)
  • Nagios cluster network management
• Python, Cygwin, MINGW, and MS VS2005 tool development environment
  • MPI cluster control
  • IPython application control
• ESRI ArcView 9.3 vector GIS
• GRASS 6.4 raster and vector GIS
• Quantum GIS authoring for mapserver presentation

Central Asia climatology

• NDVI time series analysis of 1998-2002 drought in Central and Southwestern Asia (with Prof. M.Barlow, UML Dept of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
  • Central Asia NDVI 1981-2003 animation (AVI) (110MB)
• Drought climatology, impacts:
  • http://iri.columbia.edu/climate/impact/swasia
  • http://iri.columbia.edu/outreach/publication/irireport/SWAsia
• CA climatology resources via UML-EEAS ArcIMS Mapserver:
  • Central Asia Mapserver (HTML)
  • Central Asia Mapserver (Java) (Internet Explorer required)
  • USGS-ESRI Global GIS project overview (2001)
  • Dataset descriptions and metadata

EEAS 87.504 Intro GIS gallery