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The Laboratory Breaks the 1Ghz Barrier! | (December 2000) |
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GIS Day - A Smashing Success! | (November 2000) |
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The Laboratory Expands in Size Due to Increases In Satellite Image Processing | (October 2000) |
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New Additions to CSRC's CD Jukebox Data Archive! | (September 2000) |
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The Laboratory Staff Goes On a Canoe Adventure Down The Saco | (August 2000) |
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The Laboratory Acquires Macromedia FLASH and Macromedia Freehand Software | (July 2000) |
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The Laboratory Acquires a New Slide Scanner | (June 2000) |
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The Laboratory Acquires New PC Workstations | (May 2000) |
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The Laboratory Acquires Hardware Uninterruptable Power Supply Units | (April 2000) |
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The Laboratory Demos a New SUN ULTRA 10 Workstation | (March 2000) |
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The Laboratory Acquires a New 54 Inch Swath Plotter | (February 2000) |
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CSRC Acquires a new 1km base elevation data set | (January 2000) |
This December the Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis has broken the 1Ghz barrier by acquiring two new Dell Precision 420 Workstations which boast duel 1Ghz processors. These newest generation systems, each equipped with 256mb of the latest RDRAM memory technology and 21 inch monitors are designed to handle the highest-end GIS and Image processing software packages that are used today. Each machine is also set up with the latest version of EXCEED X windows software which allows for efficient X windows communication with one of the two research center's powerful SGI, Origin 2000 series UNIX servers. This software accommodates each new workstation with both UNIX and MS windows capabilities on the same desktop.
On November 15th, 2000 the New Hampshire Space Grant consortium and Complex Systems Research Center hosted their second annual International GIS Day events at the institute for the Study of Earth Oceans and Space on the University of New Hampshire campus. Hosted guests included upwards of one hundred high school students from four New Hampshire high schools during the morning sessions. Attending high schools included Coe-Brown Academy (Northwood, NH), The Community School (South Tamworth, NH), Merrimack High School, (Merrimack, NH) and Oyster River High School (Durham, NH). All attending students were hosted to an extensive cartographic exhibition featuring over seventy maps and posters from over thirty-five presenters from around the state. Invited presenters included professionals from many sectors of the Geo-Spatial Science community including, urban planning, resource management, emergency management, education, science, government, and industry. Hosted students were also treated to a hands on tour of Complex Systems Research Center's GIS and Remote Sensing Laboratory and to a
series of talks about the Geo-Spatial Sciences and the educational and career opportunities that they have to offer.
In an effort to further enhance geographic knowledge, students were prov
ided with packets which included additional information about Geo-Spatial Science related technologies, career and educational opportunities in the Geo-Sciences, interesting earth facts, information about famous geographers and a geo-quiz. All students were also provided with a new Merriam Webster Notebook atlas, a GIS Day 2000 satellite image composite map of New Hampshire and a series of souvenirs including pens, buttons, and stickers. In total, throughout the day, the 20+ person GIS Day 2000 staff were able to give away over 125 atlases, 125 globes, 150 National Geographic Magazines, 200 maps and posters and over 300 souvenirs to the GIS Day 2000 guests.
In addition to our morning guests, over 175 professionals and university students attended the afternoon session of GIS Day to view the extensive map and poster gallery exhibition and to perform professional networking. Afternoon guests were also treated to a hands on tour of CSRC's GIS and Remote Sensing Laboratory and to an extensive information table which featured handouts and give-aways from ESRI, ERDAS, the USGS, UNH, the National Geographic Society, GRANIT, and Complex Systems Research Center.
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This October the Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis has expanded its floor plan to include room 254 of Morse Hall. Room 254 is adjacent to the main lab in room 253. This new addition will increase the number of seats in the laboratory from eleven to fifteen and will alleviate much of the expected pressure that the lab will experience with the influx of new employees due tothe increased processing of MODIS and other satellite data sets in the coming semesters. The laboratory, now and after the increase, will be furnished with some of the latest state-of-the-art hardware and software for high-end GIS and digital image processing.
As of this September, CSRC's 100 CD jukebox is now being better utilized to house many useful data CDs. Currently, data sets available via the CD Jukebox archive include world and regional political boundary, hydroclimatological, economic, demographic, soils and elevation data. For a greater explanation of each data set now available within the CD Jukebox archive, please visit the Data Holdings web page off of CSRC's Laboratory for Remote Sensing Home page. All access to this archive is available only through CSRC's EOSLAB computer server via it's /jukebox/ directory. If you have any data on CD which you feel would be useful to add to CSRC's CD Jukebox archive please contact the laboratory manager for details.
Once again, the GIS lab has returned to the water for a
fun filled day of canoeing on the Saco River. On Friday August 11th
a large showing of eleven GIS lab members and friends completed the
11 mile paddle down the the mighty Saco River with an armata of four
canoes and three kayaks. The weather held out for the group for most
of the day with warm temperatures, off and on sunshine and only slight
showers during lunch, but the skys soon opened up like a waterfall
shortly after bringing the boats into dry-dock for the trip home. The
adventure bound group enjoyed a great day of canoeing, kayaking,
swimming, socializing and just plane old relaxing with friends while
navigating the river. After the fun filled day of canoeing, the group
stopped off for a good old fashion bar-b-que with all the fixings at
the Yankee Smokehouse in Whittier NH. The group enjoyed the best of
all types of bar-b-que cuisine and then topped the meal and the day
off with huge hot fudge sundaes which can only be described in short
as gargantuan is size. There is already talk about returning to the
Saco River next year for yet another fun filled adventure of sun, fun,
friends and food. Keep your eyes pealed on the GIS lab web page for
more details as next summer approaches.
This July the Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis has acquired a copy of Macromedia FLASH 4 software for the easy creation of CD-ROM and Web-Page multimedia presentations. FLASH is a vector based standard that allows for high impact / low bandwidth presentations. Since FLASH 4 presently comes packaged with Macromedia Freehand 9, the laboratory has also acquired a copy of this software as well. Macromedia Freehand is a vector based drawing tool to help in the creation of graphics for multimedia presentations. Both FLASH and Freehand were recently used for the creation of the latest EOS-WEBSTER Data Overview and Tutorial CD-ROM presented at the latest ESIPs federation conference.