DIGITAL EARTH
(WILKINSON 210)
http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/de

Lab run by: Mark Meyers

Digital Earth is a teaching facility primarily for GIS, remote sensing, cartography, numerical analysis, and scientific visualization. The classroom is a facility of the OSU Department of Geosciences and is supported by the College of Science Information Network (COSINe).

The lab was originally funded by a NASA infrastructure grant to Sherm Bloomer (professor & Dean of Science) and Nick Pisias (professor & former associate dean of COAS). The grant provided $500,000 (matched with $82,000 from OSU) to build the classroom, as well as the Environmental Computing Center in Burt Hall. Digital Earth was renovated in 2005 using technology resource fee money.

Digital Earth is located in 210 Wilkinson Hall and is one of the most advanced teaching facilities on the Oregon State campus. We have been operational since the beginning of Spring term, 1999.

EQUIPMENT

• HP Compaq dc7600 Small From Factor Workstations (31)
  3.6 GHz, Pentium 4 processors, 4.0 Gb RAM, 150 Gb hard drives, 128 Mb video cards, 19" flat panel monitors, 30 for students, 1 for instructor
• HP Proliant ML 350 Server (1)
  6 Gb RAM, 1 TB disk space in a RAID configuration (750 Gb available), 1 Gb network, 3.2 Mhz Xeon dual processors, 1 Gb of storage allocated per student; 2 licenses for MS SQL server
• Printers
  HP Laserjet 8100 b/w, duplexing
  HP Color LaserJet 4500, duplexing
• Plotters
  HP DesignJet 800 42" Color Plotter
  HP DesignJet 2500CP Plotter
• Data Projector
  Sanyo Digital Multimedia Projector connected also to combination DVD/VCR deck and stereo receiver
• Operating Systems
  Windows XP Professional
• Software
  ArcGIS 9.1, ArcView 3.3, ENVI/IDL 4.2, ERDAS Imagine 8.7, GMS 6.0 (groundwater hydrology), GeoMedia Professional (loaded upon request), Idrisi 32, Macromedia Freehand 10, Mathematica 5.2, Matlab 7, Microsoft Office Professional w/Front Page, MicroCAM (map projections), S+ 7.0 w/Wavelets and Spatial Modules (loaded upon request), Surfer 8 on (PCs 1, 3-6), Secure Shell (telnet and ftp), and other goodies

last updated December 10, 2006 by ncs