Welcome to the College of Natural Resources' Geospatial Learning Center, located in the CNR building (room 26) on the UI campus. This lab is setup to teach the fundamentals of Remote Sensing and GIS applications and to be available to faculty and students interested in using these technologies to meet their teaching and research objectives. 

Lab Access: Each faculty, staff, or student in the CNR is welcome to use the Geospatial Learning Center for teaching and research needs. A Vandal-card swipe lock will be installed on the lab door by late January (2008). Contact the lab director Eva Strand (evas@uidaho.edu) to obtain access. The lab is available at all times except  when occupied by a class or workshop. Machines may be reserved for classroom instruction. Notice of classes in the lab is posted on the calendar on the front door. 

Class and temporary use accounts: A general user account is available to everyone with
access codes to the lab. At the login window choose Domain: NASAXX (where xx stands for
the number of the computer you are at). This general login gives you access to the workstation
but not to the domain served by the Clan  file server. You are responsible for backing up your data/work.

Login as: class Password: GIS_Lab

Graduate student accounts: If you plan to work in the lab frequently, email the Lab Director Eva Strand (evas@uidaho.edu) to get a user account with access to the Clan fileserver where you can store your data. There is a $50.00 per semester fee to keep an account n the Clan file server. Once you have logged on to the computer, you should map a network drive to the data server. Clan is divided in two partitions: Library and Projects. The Library area contains local GIS and Remote Sensing data and may be a useful data source for RSGIS work. The Projects area contains all teaching lab user accounts.

Your personal workspace will be in clan/projects. Set up another link to clan/projects. There
are no quotas for how much data you can store in your account. Please be moderate and keep
your data well managed. The size of workspaces are checked periodically and you may be
asked to reduce the amount of data you keep on the file server. The Clan file server is backed
up monthly, however keep a back-up of your own data.

Lab policy: Equipment is provided in the lab to help users accomplish their project goals and objectives. If there is something that you need, then come and talk with us first! Failure to follow the rules could result in your account being frozen. Please adhere to the following lab policies:

1) Please do not  bring personal hardware or software into the lab. If you need to load data for a class, please contact Eva Strand (evas@uidaho.edu).

2) Do not download any software on the machines without permission.

3) The HP 5M laser printer is called yogi. Please do not put 'used' paper into the printer. 
 
4) The last person to leave the lab should turn off ALL lights and be sure both doors are closed.

5) Become familiar with: Executive Order 98-05:
Establishing Statewide Policies on Computer, the
Internet and Electronic Mail Usage. It is posted on the
bulletin board in the lab. We will not tolerate an inappropriate
use of the Internet.

6) Please leave food and drinks outside the lab.

7) If there are hardware or software related problems in the lab, please contact Eva Strand at 5-5779 or email (evas@uidaho.edu). You can also write your problem on the north wall in the lab.

Fee Schedule and Charges

Accounts without Clan access:     no charge
Accounts with storage space and access to the Clan file server: $50.00 per semester (budget numbers or checks are accepted)

Other projects -- machine time $15/hour

EQUIPMENT

Computer hardware 

18 - 3.25 MHz Pentium M processor, 1 gb RAM, Windows XP Workstation , 80 GB
harddrives, Questvision 1100 19.7 viewable area color monitor
DVD-CD-ROM with a 3com 10/100 twisted pair Ethernet
network card to allow installation and access for connection to UNIX file server.

1 - Rackmount File server (Clan):  Rackmount file server, 3x64MB
ECC, 16 9GB ultra SCSI drives, floppy drive for software updates, internal DLT4000 Tape
Drive for backups, and an external 8mm Exabyte tape drive for transferring data sets from
other sources. This solution delivers fast, reliable network data access in this proposed
environment.  Storage capacity: 144 GB

1 - 3com Hub 10/100MB 3c16591 Super Stack Dual Speed
Hub 24 ports 24RJ-45. This hub is used to link the PCs through
the HP UNIX workstation engine to the Network Appliances
F520 Rackmount file server.

1 - 100 Mb ethernet card to update the existing HP 715
workstation as link for the PCs through the 3com Hub to the
Network Appliances F520 Rackmount file server.

Plotters and Printers etc.

HP Laser Jet 
Flat bed scanner
2 projectors and smartboards 


GPS equipment

2 - Trimble Pro XRS GPS stations 4400 RTK, 4MB TDC1
data collector, support bundle includes firmware for receivers
and data collector and Trimmap software, one year of
GPSurvey software updates.

1 – Trimble GeoExplorer 3 and Pfinder Office software

5 -Garmin 76 GPS units

The GPS equipment is used in teaching but is also available for check out for short periods of time. Contact Eva Strand (evas@uidaho.edu) to check out the GPS equipment. Please visit the GPS tab on the main web page for instructions on how to use the GPS equipment and Trimble's Pathfinder Office software.

Software
Current Computer Status