Computing labs

The School of Environment offers comprehensive computer facilities including:

• networked computer facilities solely for use by our students
• access also to shared facilities on the City Campus
• specialist labs for research in the fields of Geographic Information Science (GIScience), scientific visualisation, remote sensing, statistics and graphics.

This facility, which is housed in the School of Environment, is a major hardware and software resource at the City Campus. It includes areas containing:

• workstation computers
• multi-format printers
• access to UNIX and Windows computational servers.

It also has a range of major mainstream computational, GIS, remote sensing, visualisation and soft photogrammetry applications. Combined with GPS facilities and significant data holdings these offer considerable opportunities for research work with geographic data.

School students also have access to a wide range of general software as well as specialist software including:

• ESRI ArcView software for GIScience use
• graphic software
• specialist software for data collection and analysis.

A wide array of geographic data in electronic form is also available for use.

We also provide dedicated facilities to graduate students with access to general desktop computers and printers.