Resources

Assistance with using geospatial technologies is available through the Department of Digital Scholarship unit where John Clark is the Geospatial Services Librarian. John is also a good resource for finding geospatial data from all over the world. The Library also maintains a Research Tools page for Maps and Geospatial Data.

Current workshops can be found on the college calendar.

Please search for lectures and workshops with the keywords of GIS and Geospatial

Courses that cover GIS and related topics can be found here.

Geology 229: Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing in the Geosciences
International Affairs 210: Geospatial Analysis of Global Environmental Issues
International Affairs 310: Mapping World Cities

Additional items related to Geospatial technology on campus can be found here.

The college has licensing with ESRI for ArcGIS Pro Desktop, and associated extensions.  Information about accessing the software can be found here.

The college has licensing with ESRI for ArcGIS Online.  ArcGIS  Online  can be accessed at https://lafayette.maps.arcgis.com/.

Many GIS users on campus utilize the Open source software from QGIS.