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About GIS Centre
Lund University’s GIS Centre was officially established in 1993
to initiate a better collaboration between departments, teachers and researchers
regarding the use of geographical information technology. The Centre’s
main task is therefore to encourage and facilitate the use of GIS within
the university. To this day, our activities have been very successful,
and all Faculties now acknowledge the usefulness of GIS within higher
education and research.
The demand for digital geographic data and mapping services
among Faculties is high and continues to increase. This generates the
need to gather and coordinate the expertise required to handle and integrate
these data in computer-based environments. Lund University is renowned
for its experience and competence in GIS, but also in closely related
fields such as cartography, geodesy, image analysis and positioning systems.
The GIS Centre acts mainly as a consulting organisation
for educational purposes and development of courses, but the courses themselves
remain the responsibilities of the different departments. The creation
of an effective and operational collaboration requires the following basic
resources:
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· Creation and management
of a common geo-database for digital spatial data (mainly
maps), |
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· Distribution of available
GIS software packages, |
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· Consulting within
the field of GIS, |
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· Coordination
and initialization of research projects involving the use of GIS, |
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· Collaboration
with external organizations outside the university, and |
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· Development of courses
relating to GIS. |
The GIS Centre is formally part of the Faculty of Science
and the GIS Centre Board
of Administration plans its activities.
Director for GIS Centre is Petter
Pilesjö.
For teaching GIS-centre has at its disposal a fully equipped GIS-lab. This lab was established with help from its main sponsor Sparbanksstiftelsen Skåne.
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