Research

Collaboration on grants and contracts with many of the FIU departments and other institutions:

• Web-GIS application and tool development for transportation planning and routing
• Geo-spatial web for digital archives and humanities
• Development of knowledge management systems in support of collaborative projects
• Remote sensing in ecological applications related to detection of vegetation, scaling and change detection of vegetation dynamics
• Remote sensing in support of probabilistic disaster risk assessment

Education

Hosting of FIU GIS courses in our state-of-the-art teaching and research laboratories:

• Labs are used for instruction related to GIS, remote sensing, and spatial & statistical analysis.
• Specialized GIS and remote sensing software programs such as ArcGIS, ENVI are provided for classroom teaching.
• Most of the GIS and remote sensing courses required for completion of FIU’s GIS Certificate Program.
• Both fee-based and free workshops for FIU and its community.

Services

Services and consultation provided for FIU students, faculty:

• Data analysis and spatial modeling
• Digitization and scanning of printed maps and images
• Custom map production

Maps & Data

• The Center collects and acquires geo-datasets including high resolution imagery data, vector GIS data, and historical coastal maps and data.
• We provide finding guides for all types of worldwide GIS research resources, as well as a data search via the FIU Geoportal.