GAINS

The Geospatial Applications in Natural Sciences (GAINS) Lab is New Mexico Highlands University's geospatial technology resource center. It was developed through funding from the USDA Hispanic Serving Institutions Education Grants Program It is managed by the Director of Geospatial Technology, under the supervision of the Natural Resource Management Department Chair. The GAINS Lab has a full suite of geographic information systems (GIS) hardware and software. It maintains a broad variety of geospatial applications including cartography, geospatial analysis, remote sensing, and Global Position System data acquisition and processing. It has emerging capabilities in photogrammetric feature extraction and terrain modeling, stereo/3-D visualization, Object-Oriented Image Classification, and LiDAR processing and analysis. In addition, the GAINS Lab provides support to a 20 seat GIS and Remote Sensing classroom outfitted with ESRI ArcGIS Advanced, Erdas Imagine Professional, and other..

Also known as: GAINS Lab