About The Spatial Analysis Lab
The Spatial Analysis Laboratory is a research facility located in the Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources (SNR) at the University of Vermont (UVM). Lab staff are employees or students in SNR, but our facilities are often shared with collaborators from other units (e.g., Geography Department, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, and the USDA Forest Service Northeastern Research Station). The mission of the Laboratory is to apply appropriate techniques in GIS, remote sensing, and spatial statistics to problems in natural resource ecology and natural resources planning. The Lab specializes in biodiversity analysis, land-cover mapping, planning for conservation lands, and development of new applications for natural resource management. The Laboratory is supported entirely by grants and contracts for research.

The Spatial Analysis Laboratory occupies Rooms 220 and 223 of the George D. Aiken Center for Natural Resources on the UVM campus. Computer hardware and software used in the Lab include the following:

 Hardware
Dell PowerEdge 2650 Server (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3)
Dell PowerVault 220S SCSI enclosure
Dell PowerVault 132T tape library
10 Dell Precision workstations (Windows XP Pro)
Silicon Graphics Challenge S server
3 Silicon Graphics Indigo2 workstations
Umax PowerLook 2100XL scanner
HP 5000PS large-format color printer
2 HP CP1700 medium-format color printers
1 HP 5MP laser printer
Calcomp 9500 digitizing tablet
 
Software
ESRI ArcGIS 9.1 & ArcView 3.2 (UVM site license)
ERDAS Imagine 8.7 (UVM site license)
Imagine 8.7 extensions: Orthobase, Photogrammetry, Sub-pixel classifier, ATCOR
Definiens eCognition 4.0
Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, & Illustrator
UVM supported software


       Updated: 4 November 2005