UC Santa Barbara Geography / Computing / Labs

Jeffrey L. Star Lab (Ellison Hall 2610)

Open Monday through Friday, 8-5pm     Lab Rules

Do you need access to the Star Lab? See the keycard access page.

The Jeffrey L. Star lab is named after an Assistant Professor of Geography who helped to establish the core curriculum in remote sensing in the early 90s, and who, along with Jack Estes, identified the need to integrate remote sensing and GIS. Jeff had a PhD in Oceanography from Scripps and was a brilliant computer scientist; his career was cut short by cancer.

The Star Lab is maintained by the Department of Geography. The lab is an undergraduate computing facility with 30 PCs used primarily for instruction. Only Geography students and students enrolled in Geography courses are authorized to use the lab.

To streamline processes and minimize interruption to users in the lab, each quarter the Star Lab Manager will query the faculty and graduate students on software needs one month prior to the beginning of the next quarter. The response time for this query is two weeks. At the end of the two week deadline, the lab manager will disseminate a message to all faculty and graduate student mailing lists with the revised software list of the PC's for the upcoming quarter.

The Star Lab will then be closed the week prior to instruction so that the Star Lab Manager has time to re-image the machines before the quarter begins. The lab will also maintain "no access" periods for two hours each week so that lab manager may address issues that arise after instruction begins.

Please contact the Star Lab Manager at email: d_obf (at) obf.domain: geog.ucsb.edu with any inquiries pertaining to software changes in the lab.

Hardware

• Panasonic PF-1000NTU Wireless WideScreen (16:9) Projector
• Draper Targa 120" x 72" Motorized Projector Screen
• 36 Intel Core 2 Duo HP PC Workstations
• HP 4100dtn network duplexing printer

Software for Summer 2009

• Acrobat Reader 6.0
• Adobe SVG Viewer 3.0
• Adobe Photoshop 6.0
• Adobe Image Ready 3.0
• AQTESOLV
• ArcGIS 9.3 Desktop SP1
• ArcGIS 9.3 Workstation SP1
• ArcView 3.3
• ArcView 3.3 Extension - 3D Analyst
• ArcView 3.3 Extension - Image Analysis
• ArcView 3.3 Extension - Network Analyst
• ArcView 3.3 Extension - Spatial Analyst
• Cortona VRML Client for Internet Explorer
• DBMSCOPY 7
• DNRGarmin 5.2.33
• EdGCM 2.3.5
• ENVI 4.4 (IDL 6.4 Win32 x86)
• Endnote v.7 (Installed on stations labeled 1-5)
• Flowmapper v1.1
• GeoDa 9.5
• Ghec 1
• Google Earth 5.0
• Google SketchUp 6
• GWR 3.0
• Hawth Analysis Tools 3.27 for ArcGIS 9.x
• Hec-Ras
• Hec-Ras 2
• HMS to 2.2.2
• Java 2 SDK
• Macromedia - Flash Player 8
• Macromedia - FreeHand MXa
• Macromedia Studio 8 - Dreamweaver 8
• Macromedia Studio 8 - Extension Manager
• Macromedia Studio 8 - Fireworks 8
• Macromedia Studio 8 - Flash 8
• Macromedia Studio 8 - Flash 8 Video Encoder
• Macromedia Studio 8 - Flash Paper 2
• MATLAB 2007b
• Microsoft - Excel Add-in Solver
• Microsoft - Internet Explorer 6
• Microsoft - Internet Explorer Flash Plugin
• Microsoft - Internet Explorer Shockwave Plugin
• Microsoft - Office 2000 SP3
• Microsoft - Fortran Developer
• Modflow 2.8.2
• Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11
• Norton Antivirus v.10.1 SP2 client
• Python-2.1
• Models (included SBDART and H.I.D.E.S.)
• R Statistical Package 2.9.1
• S-PLUS 6.1
• SSH Secure Shell (includes SFTP)
• Quicktime (latest)
• Q-TIP (add-on for ENVI 4.x)
• VIPER Tools 1.4 (add-on for ENVI 4.x)
• Visual Modflow 2.8.2
• WinRAR 3.30
• WS_FTP LE