Welcome to the website for the Stupp Geographic Information Systems Laboratory. At the GIS Lab, we support instruction, research and services in the department and seek to further the understanding, utility and application of spatial data.

Our Laboratory is housed in the Department of Public Policy Studies at Saint Louis University. In addition to our web servers, the GIS Laboratory flaunts a smart classroom instructional environment, equipped with eleven networked Pentium IV workstations, each boasting 3 Ghz of processing power. The Lab also has E and A1 photographic quality plotters, compact-disk/digital-video-disc mastery equipment and a common map layout environment. We also make available drafting and meeting facilities for its users.

The GIS Lab offers a wide variety of contemporary spatial and analytical applications for both raster and vector data, tabular attribute data and statistical analysis as well as all standard office productivity tools.

The Stupp GIS Laboratory and its resources represent a unique institution for teaching research and service because they provide the tools context and support for activities and applications to seamlessly fused, bond, and manipulate analyze, process, render and display data and information products and sets with spatial properties. The spatial data, which are the focus of most of the laboratories activities, consists of data on physical, social cultural and virtual issues and topics and are distinguished by having location as the principal organizational focus and widely diverse origins and formats.