Geography
Labs
The UNO College of Liberal Arts Social Science Lab is located in Room
390 of the Liberal Arts building. This room contains 25 Dell Dimension
PCs which run a wide array of software, including:
- ArcInfo 9 & ArcGIS 3.3, plus all extensions
- ERDAS Imagine 8.6
- Macromedia Director Studio MX 2004 (including Flash and Shockwave)
- MS Office XP
- Matlab
- Visual Basic
The Geography Department shares this lab with the other Social Science classes throughout the year. Check the schedule outside the lab doors to see when free work time is available.
Desktop GIS and Computer Cartography Lab
The Department of Geography's Desktop GIS and Computer Cartography lab is located in Room 290 of the Liberal Arts building. The lab consists of nine Pentium III PC's running the Windows NT operating system. A wide range of desktop publishing, animation, and GIS software is installed on these PC's, for example:
- ESRI ArcGIS 9 & ArcView 3.3 (incl. 3D Analyst)
- Macromedia FreeHand 10, Macromedia Directosr Studio MX 2004
- Microsoft Office XP, Adobe Acrobat 7
The lab also contains multiple UNIX-based workstations, ranging from the Sun Sparc 4 to the Ultra 200 generation.These workstations run ArcInfo and Erdas Imagine software in a Solaris operating environment, and are connected by fiberoptic cable (with 100 megabit throughput) to a Sun Enterprise 450 fileserver located in the Computer Research Center. An HP 755CM large-format plotter is also located in this lab. These facilities provide students and faculty with state-of-the-art access to GIS and remote sensing technologies.
UNIX Systems Administration
UNIX systems administration for the Department of Geography is in the hands of Ms. Nicole Griffin. She is an employee of the University Computing and Communications unit, and helps in the management of UNIX facilities across campus.