IOM > Facilities > GIS/REMOTE SENSING

The GIS Support and Research Facility is a computing facility established to support the use of geographic information system (GIS) technology at IOM. The mission of the facility is to provide a high level GIS research support laboratory for students, faculty and staff as well as to provided GIS education and outreach to the government agencies and coastal community. The facility maintains a computing environment dedicated to GIS and spatial analysis applications. Software and hardware include:

Hardware

  • Servers (2)
  • Windows Workstations
  • Pentium PCs (15)
  • Calcomp A0 size Digitizer
  • Calcomp A0 size color Inkjet plotter
  • Laser Printers
  • Laser color printers
  • Large format digitizing table

 

System and Analysis Software

  • ArcGIS
  • ArcView
  • ARC/INFO
  • ERDAS Imagine (ERDAS IMAGINE is a software suite with photogrammetry image processing and remote sensing tools)
  • Other spatial analysis software
  • ORACLE

 


 

Instruments for Remote sensing studies:

  • Optical pantograph
  • Procomm-2
  • Ground Truth Spectroradiometer
  • Global Positioning System (GPS)
  • Leika GS5 Total station
  • Planimeter

 

Field Equipments

  • Water Quality Probe
  • Flow meter
  • LICOR
  • Anemometer

 

Lab Equipment

  • Atomic absorption Spectrophotometer
  • Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
  • UV-VIS Spectrophotometer
  • Gas Chromatograph
  • HP 5890
  • HP 6890
  • Shimadzu 14B
  • NC Analyzer
  • Beta counting system
  • Fume hood
  • pH meter
  • BOD Incubator
  • Laminar Flow chamber
  • Weighing Balance (Macro and Micro)
  • Hot air oven
  • Muffle furnace
  • Kjeldahl Nitrogen apparatus
  • High Speed Centrifuge
  • Particle Size Analyser
  • Photomicrograph
  • Flame Photometer
  • Ion chromatography

 

 

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