The Center encourages interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers to foster joint applied research projects in environmental science. The Center extends resource information science to a diverse user community to improve landuse policies and strategies for conserving the natural environment. The Center owns several Global Positioning System units available for field data collection at sub-meter accuracy positioning capability. The lab has several GIS and remote sensing software packages, a field spectrometer, a thermal radiometer, a large format inkjet color printer, large format digitizing table, Kodak DCS high resolution digital camera, Ashtech single frequency GPS receivers and high precision Trimble GPS receivers and a field mapping unit. With over 1,600 square feet, it houses modern remote sensing, GIS, database management, and simulation technologies functioning within a campus network system with high performance compute and file servers and eight 8-bit color workstations.
Work space is available for visiting scholars, member and student projects.