The Geographic Information Systems Laboratory at UIS provides students an ideal learning environment to become proficient in GIS. GIS skills are desired in a wide range of fields and can be very advantageous when job searching.

Our State of the Art Facility

Hardware

• 26 classroom computer stations for learning purposes
• 7 lab workstations equipped with dual monitors for research and project work
• 3 data servers
• 1 GIS Server
• 1 Web Server
• 12 GPS survey units
• 2 professional plotters
• Large size scanner
• Film scanner

Software

• ArcGIS 10.3
• ArcGIS Server 10.3
• Geoda
• Crimestat
• SPSS
• Erdas
• GPS controller

Courses

• ENS 404: Fundamentals of GIS
• ENS 405: Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
• ENS 503: Advanced GIS
• GIS workshops