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- CARTOGRAPHY AND COMPUTER LABS - 

For more than twenty-five years, the department has supported one of the strongest
cartographic programs in the western United States. Its students and its faculty and
staff are well known for their professional accomplishments in the areas of atlas
production and thematic mapping. A cartographic lab complex equipped with two
process cameras, darkrooms, a two-color Hamada press, and a wide variety of other
traditional devices supports all aspects of conventional map compilation, scribing,
photo-reproduction, and printing. The facility is dedicated to the instructional program,
is available to all interested students, and is capable of assisting students to produce
maps of the highest professional standards. Equally important, it is staffed by two of
California's most talented cartographers.

Although the department has long prided itself as being a leading exponent of traditional
cartography, it has used a wide variety of computational resources for more than two
decades. At present, more than thirty computers are dedicated exclusively for student
use. These include both Macintosh and IBM-compatible computers equipped with an
extensive library of application programs for mapping, data acquisition, statistical analysis,
graphing, graphics, desktop publishing, word processing, and image processing. Most
are networked to the campus mainframe and to other major systems throughout the
California State University System. They are also connected to numerous local peripheral
devices such as digitizers, three pen plotters, and printers.

The Geographic Information System / remote sensing laboratories are equipped with PC
workstations that support the ARC/INFO geographic information system software and
VGA-ERDAS remote sensing software. The principal GIS resource, however, is a fully-
configured ARC/INFO system operating on the university's mainframe. Access to this
especially sophisticated software environment and others may be obtained from any
one of the department's more than twenty Macintosh computers. In addition, the laboratories
contain five Tektronix color terminals equipped with large, table-sized digitizers that
communicate with the university's mainframe computer.

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