Geographic Information Systems

Support and Research Facility

Site Licensed GIS, GPS, and Remote Sensing Software

Software use policies

The various site licenses administered by the ISU GIS Facility are available ONLY to ISU faculty, staff, and students, and are intended ONLY for academic research or instructional use on university owned machines (not personal machines). You are responsible for upholding the license agreement while the software is being used at your location. Note that no other copies of this software should be made or installed without notifying the ISU license administrator Kevin Kane (kkane@iastate.edu).

Software requests

Site licensed software is available from the GIS Facility through network access or disk checkout.
If you'd like to install any of the listed software please email Robin McNeely (mobes@iastate.edu) with a request including the following information:

- Your name, and university email, address, and phone
- Name of the software and version you are requesting
- Number of licenses you require
- Building and room number where the computer(s) resides.

- If you are a student using the license on a university-owned computer, please include the name of your major professor or staff supervisor. (Students can install the software on their personal machines using the "Student Edition" described here)

If you need ArcGIS to run outside of the ISU network please indicate this in your note describing why you need to be off-network. While our site license allows this for laptops it will require a specialized authorization process.

Faculty, Staff, and Student Education Edition
As an ESRI Site License Campus, you may be eligible for the academic version of the license. This is a one year license that can be registered on personal machines for academic use of the software. Individual copies can be requested with an email to Robin McNeely, (mobes@iastate.edu) providing the following information:

- name and department, university netid and phone

Faculty can request large numbers of licenses for their classes at http://www.esri.com/industries/apps/education/offers/promo/index.cfm. You do not need to fill in the customer number on the form. DVDs are usually delivered within a week. There is also a dowloadable option.

Anyone is eligible for the free 60 day trial
http://www.esri.com/apps/products/arcgis/eval10/evalhelp/index.cfm

ESRI GIS Software

Iowa State has an unlimited-use site license for most of the products sold by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). Support for this license comes from the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS), and other departments on campus. The site license is limited to use by faculty, staff, and students running the software on university owned hardware.

Windows Desktop GIS Products and Extensions: ArcGIS 10.x Desktop and Workstation; ArcView 3.3 (Generally compatible with Windows 7); Business Analyst for Desktop and Business Analyst Online; Community Analyst Online

Mobile GIS: ArcPad 10; ArcGIS Mobile 10

Server and Development Products: ArcGIS Server and Extensions 10; ArcSDE 10 (Integrated with Server); ArcGIS Engine Dev Kit and Runtime 10

ERDAS IMAGINE

ERDAS IMAGINE is a software suite with photogrammetry, image processing and remote sensing tools. We have a limited number of ERDAS IMAGINE licenses available. The yearly cost for ERDAS IMAGINE 2011 is $333 for an individual seat. In addition, we also have a site license for the Leica Photogrammetry Suite (LPS) 2011 used in conjuction with ERDAS IMAGINE. The cost is $250/seat in addition to the ERDAS IMAGINE license.

This is a floating license restricted to 10 concurrent users on campus. Platform: Windows

Trimble Pathfinder Office,TerraSync and GPSCorrect

Pathfinder Office provides a suite of GPS postprocessing tools. TerraSync software is a flexible data collection and data maintenance tool that can be used with a field computer and supported Trimble GPS. The Trimble GPScorrect extension for ESRI ArcPad software allows you to control the Trimble GeoExplorer through the ArcPad Interface.The ISU GIS Facility administers the campus license for these products. The yearly share for the cost of this license is $100/individual-$300/lab. Platform: Windows

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