CAST Fiscal Year 2004-2005 Annual Report - Center for Advanced ...

security, location-based decision support, and
other identified research areas.
• Center of Excellence in Mapping and
Geo-Sciences by Intergraph
Corporation.
The Intergraph Corporation, a Fortune 500 firm
and one of the world’s leading vendors of
geographic information systems software,
selected CAST as one of only four National
Centers of Excellence in Mapping and
GeoSciences in 1994. As a result, CAST has to
date received more than $5 million in hardware,
software, and support services.
GeoMedia is also being used by the
Environmental and Spatial Technology (EAST)
Program, and CAST and Intergraph cooperate in
assisting this program. CAST staff members
have developed extensive web-mapping
materials focused on Integraph software and
prepared a book called Harnessing Geomedia.
IONIC provided CAST with Red Spider Web
server software and software maintenance and
provided a complete set of hardcopy
documentation. IONIC provides CAST with up
to 60 hours of technical support, via telephone,
of its Red Spider Web software for the hardware
platforms in use at CAST.
• Coorperative Agreement with Leica
Geosystems Geospatial Imaging
(LCCI).
In May of 2005, Leica Geosystems Geospatial
Imaging (LCCI) and the Center for Advanced
Spatial Technologies formed the inaugural Leica
Geosystems Center of Excellence in
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at the
University of Arkansas.
"Leica Geosystems created the Centers of
Excellence program to foster collaboration with a
small group of outstanding academic institutions,
bound together by a commitment to advance the
technology and expertise that will foster the
development of image-based spatial data," said
Bob Morris, president of Leica Geosystems GIS
& Mapping. "As the charter Leica Geosystems
Center of Excellence in Photogrammetry and
Remote Sensing, CAST will work with us in
several important capacities."
The EAST Geospatial Virtual Camp provides self-paced
training in Intergraph’s GeoMedia Professional .
A press conference was held on May 2 to announce the
agreement with Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging.
• Center of Excellence in Interoperable
Geospatial Data Distribution by IONIC
Enterprise Inc.
In October of 2003, IONIC Enterprise Inc.
designated CAST as a Center of Excellence in
Interoperable Geospatial Data Distribution.
CAST will integrate Leica Geosystems'
photogrammetric and remote-sensing software
into an array of graduate and undergraduate
courses in environmental dynamics,
geosciences and geography. All subsequent
centers of excellence will also integrate the
CENTER FOR ADVANCED SPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES 13