Geographic Information Systems

Support and Research Facility

Site Licensed Remote Sensing and GIS Software

Software use policies

The various site licenses administered by the ISU GIS Facility are available ONLY to ISU faculty, staff, and students, and is 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 not be made or installed without notifying the ISU license administrator (mobes@iastate.edu)

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 9.1 is $300 for an individual seat. In addition, we also have a site license for the Leica Photogrammetry Suite (LPS) 9.1 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 15 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

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 9.2 Desktop and Workstation; ArcView 3.3; BusinessMAP 4.5

Mobile GIS: ArcPad 7.1

Server and Development Products: ArcIMS 9.2 [info|requirements]; ArcSDE 9.2 [info|requirements]; ArcGIS Server 9.2 [info|requirements]; ArcGIS Engine Developer Kit 9.2 [info|requirements]; MapObjects [info|requirements]; NetEngine [info|requirements]; ArcGIS Schematics SDK [info|requirements]