The facility is a distributed system consisting of a network of three servers (Windows),  and ten workstations. The three servers provide support for web access, file service, database and ARCIMS services.  Individuals operate from seven Xeon powered workstations, and two laptop computers, running a combination of Windows and Redhat Linux. These machines and the printers are networked together on a 100 TCP/IP switched network to allow sharing of all of their resources. This network is linked into the Internet through WMU’s backbone. The network servers have over 9 TB of disk space between them. Each of the PCs has a 2 19‑in. monitors, a minimum of 1GB of memory, and local storage ranging from 250 to 500 GB of local storage.  One laptop is a Pentium 4 machine with 512MB of memory and 40 GB hard drives; the other laptop is a Pentium system with a 4GB hard drive. Two 14GB Exabyte 8‑mm tape drives are available for importing and archiving data. For importing hard copy data, the facility has a digitizing tablet (Calcomp Drawing Board III) with a 3‑ft x 4‑ft active area, a 2400 dpi large format (40 in. wide) IDEAL color scanner, a 500-dpi large-format (38 in. wide) black-and-white scanner, a 3200 dpi 11x17” flatbed scanner for transparency and opaque originals, a slide scanner, and a smaller (8 in. wide) color scanner.  Digital Data can be read from CD, DVD, and 8mm and SDLT tapes. Multiple CD-RW and DVD+R drives are used for data archiving on CD-ROM and DVD.Output is handheld by a networked Xerox Phaser color laser printer, a networked Lexmark BW laser printer, a large format (42” wide) HP designjet 500PS color printer, a SPARC E laser printer, a Polaroid HR-6000 film recorder, an inkjet color printer, and a Kodak dye-sublimation printer. The major computational software packages used are ENVI, PCI Geomatica, and ARC/INFO. ENVI is a flexible image-processing package on which all of the image manipulation is done. PCI is being used for extraction of elevation data from satellite and aerial photography.  ARC/INFO is a GIS package used to store and help interpret non-image data. The use of ARCSDE enables querying of our Oracle databases directly from ARCIMS. GMS and WMS packages are used for ground water flow and surface runoff modeling in addition to the existing software packages.

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