The Advanced Geospatial Laboratory (AGL) was officially established in 1995 to further ongoing research in the field of GIS beyond the classroom environment. This facility has grown in size and processing ability since then with the addition of a dedicated GIS server, multiple 2D and 3D workstations, a large format plotter and a newly created geovisualization projection room capable of producing three dimensional GIS maps and animations. Software used in this lab includes: Intergraph’s GeoMedia Suite, ESRI’s ArcGIS Suite, LizardTech’s GeoExpress, AutoCAD, ITT ENVI and MS Office Suite.
The primary focus at AGL is GIS and Geovisualization research and development. This includes new ways to convert existing vector data from a static environment to a GIS. In addition, research relating to the fields of NES, meteorology, biogeography, urban planning and 3D has been prototyped or developed as well. Campus projects that help the “university community” such as the Campus Webmap and Huskie Tracks GPS were developed in this lab with the help of students and staff. These types of research projects help students keep current with "real world" issues relating to the field of GIS.
To date we have had more than 140 students from Anthropology, Business, Math, Sociology, Psychology, Geology, Geography, etc; work on varying research projects within this lab. This lab is a non-for-profit research facility that is student based and is under the directorship of Philip Young.
