FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

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1 FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT The GIS Training and Research Center (GIS TReC) at Idaho State University maintains a staff of personnel with knowledge, skills, and abilities across a wide spectrum of Geographic Information Science. The University's GIS Director and team leader of the GIS TReC, Keith T. Weber is a Certified GIS Professional (GISP) with over 40 peer-reviewed professional publications to his credit. Together with other staff scientists there exists over four decades of experience in applied GIS research and multispectral satellite remote sensing analysis. The GIS TReC staff has tremendous experience in effective geodatabase design following an end-user or client-centric paradigm, along with the production, configuration, and maintenance of geodatabases. In addition, data security is a paramount concern and the GIS TReC s Systems Administrator keeps informed of current requirements, policies, and future trends. The GIS TReC Server constellation is very well secured with only two staff members having physical access to these machines. In addition, the entire server constellation is distinct from all other computers by segmenting these machines into their own subnet. Passwords to gain access to the servers adhere to the most stringent guidelines and policies and mission critical data is routinely archived to a second off-site server. The GIS TReC has been awarded the prestigious Esri Special Achievements in GIS (SAG) award. This honor was bestowed upon only 150 sites (chosen from among over 300,000 user sites worldwide) in 2000 and again in The GIS TReC uses and maintains the following equipment to support its research efforts: GEOSPATIAL SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE 1. Enterprise GIS Server constellation: These servers each have a functional role within the GIS TReC and fulfill a part of the Center s research mission. This server constellation represents an investment approaching $0.5M GIS Web Server and ArcGIS License Server: Dell PowerEdge 2650 server running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise edition with hardware RAID GB hot-swappable SCSI hard drives and 1 Xeon 1.76GHz CPU with 1GB SDRAM. This computer serves all licenses for Idaho State University including not only the Pocatello campus, but campuses in Idaho Falls and Meridian as well. Spatial Library Server: Dell PowerEdge 2950 running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise edition with hardware RAID TB hot-swappable SCSI hard drives and 2 Intel Quad Core XCL 2.66 GHz CPUs with 16 GB SDRAM and hot-swappable redundant power supplies. The Spatial Library offers nearly 50,000 geospatial datasets, most of which are freely accessible (unless otherwise restricted due to licensing or legal concerns). LiDAR Spatial Library: Dell PowerEdge R510 server running Ubuntu LTS Enterprise edition with hardware RAID TB hot-swappable SAS hard drives and 1 Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz CPU with 12 GB SDRAM and hot-swappable redundant power supplies. ArcSDE & IBM DB2 Server and GIS Web Mirror Server: Dell PowerEdge 6650 server running Windows 2008 server with hardware RAID GB hot-swappable SCSI hard drives and 4 Xeon 1.4GHz CPUs with 8 GB RAM and hot-swappable redundant power supplies. This server offers the ISU GIS community ready access to numerous base layers

2 important to nearly all GIS studies (e.g., roads, rivers, and topography) using an objectrelational database hosted through Esri s ArcSDE software. Production Web Services Servers: NASA RECOVER Web Services Server: Dell PowerEdge R720 server running Windows 2012 R2 with hardware RAID-5 3 TB hot-swappable SAS hard drives and 2 Intel Xeon 8 core 2.00 GHz CPUs with 112 GB SDRAM and hot-swappable redundant power supplies. This very large and powerful server delivers web services and geoprocessing capabilities to support the NASA RECOVER decision support system at ISU s GIS TReC. NAIP ArcGIS Server: Dell PowerEdge R710 running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with hardware RAID- 5 6 TB hot-swappable SCSI hard drives and 1 Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.93 GHz CPU with 48 GB SDRAM and hot-swappable redundant power supplies. This production server delivers the national agricultural imagery program (NAIP) imagery for the entire state of Idaho. ArcGIS Server: Dell PowerEdge 2950 III running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition with hardware RAID TB hot-swappable SCSI hard drives and 2 Dual Core Intel Xeon 3.33 GHz CPUs with 32 GB SDRAM and hot-swappable redundant power supplies. This server is used to load balance services offered by other production web service servers (above). HADOOP Experimental Linux Cluster Linux Server: Dell PowerEdge 2650 server running Ubuntu LTS with hardware RAID GB hot swappable SCSI hard drives and 2 Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz CPUs with 12 GB SDRAM and hot-swappable redundant power supplies. Linux Server: Dell PowerEdge 2550 server running Ubuntu LTS with hardware RAID GB hot-swappable SCSI hard drives and 2 Pentium III 1.0GHz CPU's with 2 GB RAM and hot-swappable redundant power supplies. The on-site server constellation is backed up by two APC 3000 SmartUPS devices, powered through two discrete Idaho Power incoming electrical lines. During complete power failure, these server can continue running for nearly 24 hours. Archive Server (Off-Site): Dell PowerEdge 2800 server running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition with hardware RAID-5 2.2TB hot-swappable SCSI hard drives and 1 Xeon 3.0GHz CPU with 2 GB SDRAM GPS Server (Off-Site): Dell XPS 600 workstation running Windows 7 Enterprise edition with 465 GB hard drive and 1 Intel Pentium D 3.46 GHz CPU with 2 GB RAM Gigabit Ethernet deployed to all workstations and servers. A dark-fiber network is used to connect the GIS TReC to the ISU backbone. ISU is an Internet2 University that also uses the Idaho Regional Optical Network (IRON) to support collaborative research outside ISU. GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH DATA 1. SCOPE single, centralized geodatabase repository containing de-identified point data information along with regional prepared food sites, roads, sidewalks, parks, and other built environmental data layers. This geodatabase has been developed to SCOPE research. These data reside off-line on an encrypted and non-network attached, secure system.

3 2. High resolution aerial imagery for Idaho (1.5ft. pixels) and Bannock County (0.5 ft pixels) acquired in NASA RECOVER geospatial data and web services. This repository contains 21 baselayers from authoritative sources for the Western US. Specific layers include roads, streams, watersheds, vegetation, land cover, and topography. 4. Esri Community Tapestry database. This database contains a wealth of information describing and characterizing neighborhoods across the entire US. 5. Esri ArcSDE implementation on IBM DB2 RDBMS populated with detailed Idaho data sets to support research at ISU. 6. Nearly 50,000 GIS datasets available through the GIS TReC spatial library ( 7. All Idaho LiDAR consortium data resides on the GIS TReC spatial library 8. Historic wildfire data for the Western US 9. NAIP digital ortho-imagery for southeastern Idaho counties (2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, and 2013) 10. Large collection of Landsat 5, 7, and 8 imagery. These data are available in raw (L1 format) and as atmospherically corrected layers. 11. Idaho State University campus GIS data sets 12. Esri street data sets for the entire US 13. Pictometry 6-inch imagery for Bannock County (2010 and 2015). SOFTWARE 1. Esri s ArcGIS and ArcGIS Pro (including Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst, Network Analyst, Geostatistical Analyst extensions) 2. Esri s ArcGIS for Server Esri s ArcGIS Online with Community Analyst Online software (SaaS) 4. Clark University Lab s Idrisi TerrSet GIS for Windows 5. Corel Paint Shop Pro ver. X7 6. Onyx Poster Shop Pro 7. Trimble Pathfinder Office software Trimble Pathfinder Community Base Station software (ver. 2.68) 9. MS Office 2013 Professional 10. EndNote Adobe Acrobat MS Visual Studio 2008 Professional edition. 13. Esri Arc Spatial Database Engine (ArcSDE) for DB2 14. IBM DB2 with Spatial Extender 15. Esri State wide site license for higher education WORKSTATIONS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT 1. Dedicated Instructional Workstation: Dell Optiplex 9020 workstation running Windows 8.1 with 1 TB of hard drive space and 1 Intel i GHz CPU with 16 GB RAM. 2. Student Workstations: Fifteen(15) : Dell Optiplex 9020 workstation running Windows 8.1 with 1 TB of hard drive space and 1 Intel i GHz CPU with 16 GB RAM and dual monitors. These computers support all courses and workshops taught at the GIS TReC. Also part of this system: Xerox Phaser 3350 black and white printer. 3. Research and Development Server: Dell PowerEdge R420 server running Windows Server bit edition with 1 TB hard drive and 2 Xeon 6 core 1.90 GHz CPU with 96 GB SDRAM. Running Windows Hyper-V virtual machines. This sever has been virtualized and

4 acts as the GIS TReC s local cloud server. It is used to support the Information Technology for GIS class and smaller research projects by other faculty at ISU. 4. Hadoop Pseudo-Cluster Head Node: Dell PowerEdge 850 server running Ubuntu with 1 TB hard drive and 1 Pentium D 3.2 GHz CPU with 8 GB RAM 5. Teaching Assistant Workstation: Dell Optiplex 9020 workstation running Windows 8.1 with 1 TB of hard drive space and 1 Intel i GHz CPU with 16 GB RAM and dual monitors. 6. GIS Web Services Workstation: Dell Optiplex 9020 workstation running Windows 8.1 with 1 TB of hard drive space and 1 Intel i GHz CPU with 16 GB RAM and dual monitors. This computer is used for the design and initial testing of GIS web service projects prior to deployment on production servers or advanced testing on the R&D servers. 7. Research Workstations Four (4) Dell Precision T1700 workstations running Windows 8.1 with 1 TB of hard drive space and 1 Intel i GHz CPU with 16 GB RAM and 3 monitors. Three (3) Dell Optiplex 9020 workstation running Windows 8.1 with 1.5 TB of hard drive space and 1 Intel i GHz CPU with 32 GB RAM and dual monitors. 8. Cartographic Workstation One (1) Dell Precision Precision T1700 workstations running Windows 8.1 with 1 TB of hard drive space and 1 Intel i GHz CPU with 16 GB RAM. Also part of this system: Two (2) 20.1 flat panel monitors and a Canon Image PROGRAF ipf8000s 44 wide printer with 1200 dpi printing capabilities and an 80 GB hard drive 9. Other One (1) Dell Precision T5810 running Windows 8.1 with 1 TB of hard drive space and 1 Intel Xeon E core 3.5 GHz CPU with 32 GB RAM. One (1) Dell Precision T3400 running Windows 8.1 with 160GB hard drive and 1 Pentium Core2 Duo 3.16 GHz CPU with 8 GB RAM. One (1) Dell Latitude D630 laptop computer running Windows 7 Enterprise with a 120 GB hard drive and 1 Intel Duo 2.00 GHz CPU with 2 GB RAM. One (1) Panasonic Toughbook field laptop computer running Windows 7 Enterprise with 75 GB hard drive and 1 Intel Duo 1.66 GHz CPU with 512 MB RAM. One (1) HP Pavilion dv2 laptop computer running Windows 7 Enterprise with 320GB hard drive and 1 AMD Neo 1.6GHz CPU with 4GB RAM. One (1) HP Pavilion dv5 laptop computer running Windows 7 with 500GB hard drive and 1 Intel Core i GHz CPU with 4GB RAM. One (1) Xerox Phaser 7750DN color laser printer. One (1) Hewlett Packard 8300 ScanJet flatbed scanner. One (1) Hewlett Packard Office Jet 720 capable of scanning, faxing, color copying and printing. One (1) 8 ft. prismatic projection screen and Mitsubishi 1080i LCD projector. One (1) Portable BoxLight LCD projector. Six (6) Trimble Juno SB hand held GPS receivers. Five (5) Trimble GeoXT hand held GPS receivers. Three (3) Trimble GeoXH hand held GPS receivers

5 One (1) Trimble ProXR Pathfinder Community Base Station phase corrected GPS receiver. This receiver has been permanently mounted and is continuously running as the GIS Center s Community Base Station. One (1) Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station including soil moisture and solar radiation sensors. REMOTE SENSING CAPABILITIES The remote sensing capabilities at ISU include the GIS TReC. The GIS TReC uses Idrisi software. Investigators have experience processing remote sensing data acquired by the following platforms: MODIS, Landsat, SPOT, IKONOS, Quickbird, WorldView, and airborne LiDAR.