Draughting facilities are available. Masters students are provided with basic instruction particularly in computer-based cartography. Scanners, graphics software and a range of printers are available for computer-based draughting. The department's cartographer undertakes draughting for doctoral theses. Photographic services include slide making and duplication.
Facilities are also available to edit and view video tapes.
Data capture and output is catered for with an A0-sized digitiser and access to an HP 650CB AO colour plotter. LaserJet and colour DeskJet printers. A PhD lab was created in 2000 to provide a dedicated PhD computing facility, and contains several Pentium III computers for graduate use only. The physical geography laboratories are also computerised and there are several systems for automatic data acquisition, including Magellan and Trimble GPS receivers, and a range of laptop computers for use in the field. An ethernet network enables communications throughout the department and to the rest of the university, including the library and other databases.