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facilities and equipment used to support these activities include
the Department of Geography’s Geographic Resources Center
(GRC), Spatial Analysis and Modeling Laboratory (SPAM Lab) and
the Missouri Spatial Data Information Service (MSDIS), College
of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Center for Agricultural,
Resource and Environmental Systems (CARES), CENTECH's STAR Lab,
Topographic Modeling Laboratory in Electrical Engineering and
the Missouri Resource Assessment Partnership (MoRAP)
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Spatial
Analysis & Modeling Laboratory(SPAMLab) The
Department of Geography
(http://www.geog.missouri.edu)
University of Missouri-Columbia,8-Stewart Hall
Phone: 573-882-8370
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Geography houses
a variety of state-of-the-art spatial analysis and modeling resources
for teaching, research, and service that have established the
department as a leading force in GIScience. Recently, the department
has invested in two new labs supported in part by grants obtained
from NASA to support research in Geographic Information Systems
(GIS), remote sensing, spatial statistics, and cartography. The
first lab is designed to serve as both teaching lab and a research
resource for undergraduate and graduate students. It is furnished
with 16 windows computers running ArcInfo, ArcView, SpaceStat,
and ENVI as well as word processing and spreadsheet software.
All machines are connected to the University backbone of internet
access.
A second
application lab supports advanced faculty, postdoctoral, and
graduate basic and applied research focused primarily on the
interaction between biophysical and anthropogenic processes.
Projects in the laboratory include the application of spatial
techniques and modeling to problems in geomorphology, biogeography,
medical geography, and the urban biophysical environment. This
laboratory maintains a number of NT and RS/6000 AIX workstations
for data analysis and processing. As well, field measurement
instruments, including a Topcon level and total station, an
ASD FieldSpec Pro field spectrometer, and Ashtec survey grade
GPS can be utilized.
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Geographic
Resources Center (GRC)
(http://www.grc.missouri.edu)
Contact:Timothy
L Haithcoat (573-882-1404) email:haithcoatt@missouri.edu |
Housed
within the department of geography is the Geographic
Resources Center (GRC). Since its establishment in 1980
the GRC has served as a multi- disciplinary applied research
and training facility for the GIScience and has developed a wide
variety of spatial data for various public and private sector
clients such as the State of Missouri. The GRC staff has worked
on over 300 projects in such areas as wildlife biology, forest
resource inventory, agronomy, land-use planning, water quality,
global vegetation monitoring, land-cover mapping, surface modeling,
socio-economic analysis, census analysis, and landscape analysis.
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Missouri
Spatial Data Information Service
(http://www.msdis.missouri.edu) |
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the Missouri Spatial Data Information Service, a spatial data retrieval
and archival system. GIS technology is emerging worldwide as the
standard tool for integrated management of geographic information.
Geographic information, often referred to as spatial information,
can be defined as any piece of information that can be referenced
by an x, y location. GIS technology enables managers and users
of geographic information to achieve higher levels of information
integration and to perform more complex analyses than are practically
feasible in manual environments.
MSDIS is
responsible for data storage and access, standardization of
both digital and tabular data, creation of the data dictionary,
compilation of metadata, and statewide GIS user information
networks.
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CARES
(http://www.cares.missouri.edu)
(573)-882-7458 |
The
Center for Agricultural, Resource and Environmental Systems was
established in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
at the University of Missouri - Columbia in January, 1992. CARES
is an intercollegiate research and education center. Its primary
mission is to improve the understanding and management of agricultural
and natural resource systems and environmental quality through
the integration of biological, physical and social sciences.
The educational and outreach mission of CARES is to support graduate
instruction and research on socioeconomic aspects of natural
and environmental resource use and management, and improve the
ability of private groups and public agencies to manage natural
and environmental resource systems. CARES is located on the first
floor of Mumford Hall on the University of Missouri - Columbia
campus. Our main office is in room 130, with other offices and
production facilities occupying rooms 126 and 128. CARES utilizes
a variety of hardware and software. Hardware includes seven IBM
RS/6000 UNIX workstations, three IBM RS/6000 X-stations, two
NCD HMXpro X-stations, and twenty Pentium-based PCs with TCP/IP
capability. The latter allows non-graphic UNIX processing capabilities
on the PC. All workstations and PCs are Ethernet networked and
have full Internet access. Software includes ARC/INFO, ArcView,
ERDAS and GAMS as well as several other economic and environmental
modeling packages. More details on software and hardware are
given below. CARES has ~290 GB of combined hard disk storage,
the ability to scan and print E-size documents, USGS 7.5 minute
topographic maps for the entire state of Missouri, and online
Digital Raster Graphic (DRG) images of those topographic maps.
We also host a web server with several Internet sites and an
Internet map server.
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Missouri
Resource Assessment Partnership (MoRAP)
(http://www.cerc.cr.usgs.gov/morap/)
(573)-875-5399
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uses Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing technologies
to develop, analyze, and deliver high-quality information at
the lowest possible cost so partner agencies can more efficiently
accomplish natural resource inventory, monitoring, management,
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