About the Centre for Spatial Analysis

Research in the Centre for Spatial Analysis, located in Burke Science Bldg. Rm. 342, focuses on the development of spatial analysis methods and techniques and the application of such methods to urban transportation problems and to understanding the relationship between environmental pollution and health. The current computing environment includes a local area network, consisting of fifteen Windows XP Professional desktops (twelve Core-2 Duo, 2.4 GHz processors, three P4 3.6 GHz processors, 2-4 GB of RAM in each), and two XP Professional x64 edition workstations (Xeon X5460, 3.16 GHz with 18GB of RAM) administered by a Windows 2003 Server operating on a HP Proliant hardware platform. The lab also contains additional network storage, a laptop (XP Pro) a flatbed scanner, laser printers, and a large format, high resolution HP DesignJet plotter.  Currently, each desktop is equipped with ArcInfo 10, a variety of statistical tools to aid in spatial analysis, and development tools for application development.  As a result of the variety of development that takes place in the Centre, it (along with the TransLab (Dr. Scott) and the GIS Laboratory) was named as an ESRI Development Centre in 2009, the first of its kind in Canada.  In addition to development capabilities, web mapping services and applications can also be constructed using ArcInfo to author content and ArcGIS Server to deploy the service or application.