GIS teaching and research laboratories at the University of Idaho are clustered in four university colleges:

Agriculture

• Global positioning equipment (DGPS navigation quality). PC desktops and portables (CD-writer, plotters, digitizer, large format scanner, and inkjet printer. Software includes programs from ESRI, Trimble, Garmin, Idrisi, and Evolution Computing as well as other general software). LiCor 1800, quantum sensors, and photorespiration measuring devices.

• GIS Lab, Biological and Agricultural Engineering: Gateway PC 166MHZ running GRASS in Linux/UNIX environment. 64 MB RAM, 4.0 GB disk space, 17" Trinitron Monitor. Pentium PC 233MHZ running Windows NT 4.0 with ArcInfo, ArcView 3.0, 128 MB RAM, 9 GB disk space (SCSI hard drives), CDROM read/write, IOmega Zip drive, 17" monitor, HP-722C color printer.

• PC/UNIX lab with 15 networked Pentium computers, 17" high res. monitors, one HP 700 series workstation, penplotters, laser printers. Software includes: ArcInfo 7.1.2 UNIX and NT version, GIX, AutoCAD and LandCAD.

• Landscape Dynamics Lab: Unix network for 5 SUN Sparcstations and 3 NT 4.0 Pentium PCs. Software includes: Arc/Info 7.1, ArcView 3, Erdas Imagine 8.3, ENVI.
  
  
• RS/GIS Teaching and Research Lab: 2 HP Unix workstations with 30 GB of disk Space, 5 Xterms, NetApp F520 file server to serve up both the NT and Unix environments with 140GB of disk space, 12 NT Pentium computers, 19" high res monitors, High resolution digital data projector, Calcomp Techjet Color GT plotter (36"), laser printer, 8 Trimble GeoExplorer II GPS receivers, 2 Trimble ProXR GPS receivers, Software includes: Arc/Info 7.1, ArcView 3, Erdas Imagine 8.3, ENVI, Pathfinder, Office.
  
  
• Remote Sensing Research Lab: 4 pentium II computers, 21" inch high res monitors, color laser printer, 3 Bausch & Lomb Zoom Transfer Scopes, Airphoto interpretation and measurement equipment, Impulse 200 ranging laser, airphoto and map collection. Software includes: Arc/Info 7.1, ArcView 3, Erdas Imagine 8.3, ENVI, Pathfinder, Office, Splus.

Mines and Earth Resources

• PC lab with 24 networked Pentium computers, 17" high res. monitors, software includes: PC ArcInfo 3.5, ArcView 3.0 with extensions, Atlas*GIS, programming language compilers.
  
  
• UNIX workstation lab with 7 HP 700 series workstations and 16 X terminals, two HP high-end color penplotters (D size), one Calcomp color printer (C size), two laser printers, four Pentium computers for digital image processing. Software includes: ArcInfo 7.1.2, Erdas-Imagine 8.3.
  
  
• Global positioning equipment (DGPS navigation quality).

• Besides these specialized college labs, two GIS packages: PC ArcInfo 3.5 and ArcView 3.0 are widely available on 670 computers in general-use computer labs on the University of Idaho campus. The University of Idaho has a license agreement with ESRI for the university-wide use of ESRI's software products.