The School of Geography and Environmental Science has dedicated IT facilities to support work in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and to support intense computational tasks analysing research data.
The David Robins GIS Suite
This is a new, specially designed teaching space for our master’s programme students undertaking specialist
GIS/Remote sensing tasks.
The Suite is also used for the Continued Professional Development courses offered by
Geodata
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The High Specification Research Computing Facility
This space houses machines for research and specialist teaching support, consisting of:
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A specialist high end workstation
which can be utilised to support highly intensive computational tasks, such as structure from motion (SfM) processing, image processing and point cloud manipulation that cannot be completed using the Iridis environment or using standard S2 specification machines.
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S2 research grade machines
to support intensive computational tasks that cannot be completed using the Iridis environment, or using standard specification machines.
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An iMac machine
to support cartographic and illustrative work for a wide range of research projects, but which also provides a Unix environment where needed.