Computing and Graphics
- 35+ UNIX and Windows color workstations
- 100Mbps local area network (kars.ku.edu)
- connection to the Internet II high-speed network node at the University
of Kansas
- over 4 terabytes of local disk storage
- HP 750C and HP 2500cp DesignJet large-format ink jet plotters
- Tektronix Phaser 560 color laser printer
- HP 8500 color laser printer
- several high resolution black-and-white laser printers
- tape drives supporting a variety of formats (8mm, 4mm, QIC)
- document and transparency/slide scanners
- DVD and CDROM writers
- two large-format digitizing tablets
- Polaroid slide maker
- Olympus digital camera
- Video scanning system for estimating Leaf Area Index
- Drying oven
SOFTWARE
- Leica Geosystems' Imagine, a completely integrated software package for
analysis of digital imagery, including Leica Photogrammetry Suite software
for automated generation of digital elevation models, and raster GIS modeling
- ESRI's ArcGIS, a comprehensive GIS software package that provides powerful
spatial analysis and cartographic capabilities
- ESRI's ArcView, a user-friendly data exploration, analysis and display
package - statistical analysis software packages, including SPSS, S-Plus,
and CART
FIELD EQUIPMENT
- Analytical Spectral Devices (ASD) Personnel Spectrometer II (380-1075nm);
512 bands (ca. 1.4nm wide) from the ultra-violet to the near-infrared
- ASD FieldSpec FR Spectroradiometer (350-2500nm); 2,250 bands from the
ultra-violet to the middle-infrared
- several Garmin Survey 100 GPS (global positioning system) receivers
- Li-Cor LAI-2000 Plant Canopy Analyzer
- Decagon Sunfleck and AccuPAR Ceptometers for light interception measurement
- Decagon First Growth digital cover camera
- Applied Microsystems, Ltd. Aquatic Fluorometer
- Conventional field measurement equipment (i.e., compasses, clinometers,
tapes, etc.)
- A fleet of field vehicles for field research and travel to meetings
LIBRARIES
Reference Library
- over 500 texts and subscriptions to 20 professional journals and periodicals
Aerial and Satellite Photography Library
- a variety of prints, transparencies, and slides covering the entire state
of Kansas and surrounding areas
- large scale (1:24,0000) and small scale (1:100,000 and larger) USGS topographic
maps covering the state
Digital Data Library
- multi-date Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery for the entire state
- hundreds of cloud-reduced AVHRR bi-weekly composites dating from 1989
- over 40 Landsat MSS and SPOT scenes
- over 30 CDROMs of USGS SLAR radar data covering locations throughout the
United States
- numerous USGS digital orthophotoquads
