The latest news from the Office of Information Technology
Geographic Information System (GIS) software has traditionally been used on desktop computers to develop, display, and analyze spatial data. Recent advances in web-based GIS software now allow researchers and instructors to upload their spatial data to online GIS services. Colleagues and students can then view and query — and even edit — GIS data online [...]
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is a technology which is finding ever broader use in the UCI research community. NACS Research Computing Specialist Tony Soeller has been supporting GIS software, teaching workshops, and working directly with faculty and graduate students on research projects to exploit GIS tools. Here are some recent examples.
Professor Bradford Hawkins in Ecology [...]
The mission of NACS Research Computing Support (RCS) is to facilitate access to and promote the effective use of computational resources available to UCI researchers. The group provides consulting, training, and outreach in the use of hardware and software. Hardware resources promoted by RCS include: NACS administered Beowulf clusters, the Krein supercomputer, and other supercomputer [...]
How many people between the ages of 18 and 24 with an income above $50,000 live within 4.5 miles of the Pacific Ocean between Oceanside and Redondo Beach? What is the proximity of children in a community, who have elevated concentrations of lead in their bodies, to older structures that might contain lead-based paint?
These questions, [...]
NACS is pleased to announce that a site license for ArcView GIS has been acquired and that the software is now available for distribution on campus. GIS, or Geographic Information Systems, is software that combines geographic information with data about that area, making the data more approachable and useful. See http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html for more information on GIS.
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