GIS/COMPUTER CARTOGRAPHY LABORATORY

Central Connecticut State University Department of Geography

Who We Are:  The CCSU GIS/Computer Cartography Laboratory is located in Rm. 312 DiLoreto Hall at Central Connecticut State University.  The laboratory has been in existence for more than 10 years and was built through grant activity and with the support of the Information Services Department of CCSU and Connecticut State University.

What We Do:  The lab's principal purpose is to support our education efforts in Geographic Information Systems and cartography (map-making) using computers.  

Additionally, we offer  training in our lab or at your site in Arcview GIS and ArcInfo for groups from 5 to 15.  Our training is customized to use your data and it works with problems that would be relevant to your organization.  We have trained staff from municipal government, state government and community organization.  Some recent classes...

• State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
• Town of South Windsor, CT
• Town of West Hartford, CT
• City of Norwalk, CT
• City of Torrington, CT
• Legislative and Electoral Action Program (Hartford)
• Ocean State Action (RI)
• CT Office of Policy and Management 

We also offer GIS and mapping services to the university, municipalities, non-profit groups and urban and regional planning consulting firms.   Some recent projects include:

• Parcel Layer and Environmental Data - Town of Warren, CT Land Trust
• Commercial Parcels - Valley Regional Planning Agency (Seymour, Ansonia, Derby, Oxford, Beacon Falls, CT)
• Digital Elevation Models for Bethel, Groton - Planimetrics
• Parcel mapping - Towns of Plymouth and Wolcott
• Central Arts - Map of Service Area
• Web GIS map and database - Neighborhood Housing Services of New Britain (Scalable Vector Graphics)
• Some Internet Mapping Examples from the lab
• GIS and Mapping Support - Market Penetration Study: Lake Compounce, Summer 2000 (Center for Social Research

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Our Facilities:  The lab has 16 PC workstations and several networked servers for data storage.

Software:  The university participates in a statewide site license agreement with Environmental Systems Research Institute that provides access to most ESRI software.

• ArcInfo 9.1 plus most extensions
• Arcview 3.3 (Spatial Analyst, Network Analyst, Image Analyst, Crime Analysis, ArcPress extensions
• ArcSDE 9.1
• ArcIMS 9.1
• CorelDraw v. 12.0
• Idrisi v. 

Printers and Plotters:

• HP 1050C Color Injket Plotter (plots to 36 inches wide)
• HP 5500C  Color laser printer (plots to 11 x 17 inches)
• HP Laserjet 4000

Digitizers:

• Numonics 60 x 48 inch tablet
• 5 Summagraphics 11 x 11 inch tablets

Scanner:

• EPSON 11 x 17 color scanner

Staff:

Dr. John E. Harmon - Professor, Department of Geography
Dr. Xiaoping Shen - Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Dr. Peter Kyem - Assistant Professor of Geography

Contact Us:  harmonj@ccsu.edu