Services include consulting, program development, sample collection and waste characterization. The laboratory provides research and educational services to the university community. Capabilities include Global Positioning Systems field and base station services, remote sensing and image classification, environmental and habitat characterization, data conversion, desktop mapping, database integration, map-based data visualization, and map production. The program facilitates the development of new environmental solutions. The program provides testing facilities for large-scale demonstrations and helps connect new technologies with commercialization opportunities.
Many industries lack unbiased avenues for evaluating new solutions to environmental problems.
Often the resources and expertise needed to properly select new approaches to these problems are unavailable to industries. Many municipalities do not have the avenues to evaluate new ideas and innovations designed to serve their needs. Those municipalities that do have access to new environmental technologies generally do not have the resources needed to reduce the associated business risks.