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GIS and Remote Sensing Facilities

Pictures showing before and after renovation of PLYLER 100.

(run your mouse over the image to see the picture after renovation)

These pictures show what the classroom was like before and after renovation was done (dated 12-14-2003 and 04-01-2004).

The GIS and Remote Sensing facility is located at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Plyler Hall, Room # 100). This room can accomodate 16 stundets and a faculty instructor at a time with each of them having a computer to work with.

The facilities and resources available through this room are:

Dell Precision Workstation 450 Desktop

  • Workstations - 16 Students, 1 Instructor
  • Intel® Xeon™ Processor 2.40GHz, 512K Cache
  • Memory: 1GB, DDR266 SDRAM Memory, ECC
  • Monitor: Dell UltraSharp™ 1901FP flat panel (19.0 viewable), Height Adjustable Stand
  • Graphics Cards: nVidia, QuadroFX 500, 128MB, dual monitor VGA or DVI/VGA capable
  • Hard Drive: 40GB ATA-100 IDE, 1 inch (7200 rpm)
  • Floppy Drive: 1.44MB FDD
  • Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, SP1 with Media and NTFS
  • Mouse: Dell USB 2-Button Optical Mouse with Scroll
  • Optical Devices: 48/32X CD-RW/DVD Combo

Dedicated GIS Server PowerEdge 1750

  • Intel Xeon 2.4GHz w/512K Cache, 533MHz Front Side Bus
  • Memory: 1GB DDR, 266MHz, 2X512MB DIMMS
  • PCI RISER: 2X64/133MHz PCI-X Riser
  • 1st Hard Drive: 36GB, 10K RPM, 1in (Ultra 320) SCSI Hot Plug
  • 2nd Hard Drive: 36GB, 10K RPM, 1in (Ultra 320) SCSI Hot Plug
  • Hard Drive Controller: PERC4-DI, 128MB Battery Backed Cache, 2 Internal Ch-Embedded Raid
  • HD Configuration: On-Board RAID 1, 2 drives connected to on-board RAID
  • CD-ROM or DVD: 24X IDE CD-ROM
  • Floppy Drive Options: 1.44MB Diskette Drive
  • Operating System: Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
  • 1st Network Adapter: Dual Onboard NICS for 533 Mhz Front Side Bus
  • 2nd Network Adapter: Intel Pro 1000MT Dual Port Gigabit Network Adapter
  • BEZEL: Active Bezel Option for Dell PowerEdge 1750
  • RACK RAILS: Versa Rails for Non-Dell Rack
  • Power Supplies: Redundant Power Supply with Y-cord

HP Designjet 800PS 42” Poster Printer

  • Media Sizes 8.3- to 42-in. wide sheets; 24-, 36-, and 42-in rolls
  • Media Handling Single sheet feed, roll feed, automatic cutter
  • Print cartridges 4 (1 each black, cyan, magenta, yellow)
  • Print Technology HP Thermal Inkjet
  • Print Quality 2400 x 1200 dpi
  • Memory 160 MB
  • Hard disk 6 GB
  • Fast Mode Speed Line drawings: 90 sec; color: 85 sq ft/hr
  • Normal Mode Speed 36 sq ft/hr
  • Best Mode Speed 21 sq ft/hr

Keocera Mita 8.5” x 11” and 11” x 17” Color Laser Printer

  • Speed : 8 PPM Color, 30 PPM Monochrome
  • Resolution : 600 x 600 dpi
  • Paper Size : 3.1" x 5.8" - 11" x 17"

NEC MT1065 Projector

  • Input – Output - Audio
  • Component RGB, Composite Video, S-Video
  • 802.11b (Wireless, 11 mbps) x 1
  • Computer, Analog RGB, Digital RGB
  • PCMCIA (Memory card slot) x 2
  • USB Mouse x 1
  • Wired Remote (R/C jack) x 1
  • Built-in Audio - 5W X 2

 

Installed S/W

  • ArcGIS 8.3 (3-D, Spatial, Streets, and Statistics Extensions)
  • ArcView 3.2
  • Erdas Imagine
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
  • Macromedia Flash MX
  • Macromedia ColdFusion
  • WMS 7.0
  • Stella 8.0
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