The GIS Laboratory

The GIS Lab is part of the Sylviculture and Management Division. It allows students to practice photomapping, remote sensing and geographic information system. The laboratory was created in 1988 and known as the Photo-mapping Laboratory, gradually changed to be the Remote Sensing Laboratory and finally became as the GIS Lab. The practical exercises on the use of materials and software for geographic information exploitation complement the forest training of the students. The GIS, effectively, is a useful tool for:

the completion of their memoir (related to natural resource and terroir management)
the natural resource management,
the environmental impact surveys,
the risk analysis for a given terroir, locality or region in order to set a management or even a development plan.

The GIS laboratory is specialized in the management and analysis of spatial information. Its skills include (i) Photo-mapping, (ii) satellite image processing (iii) GIS (iv) mapdigitizing. Its activities are:

1. Training

training of engineer students
tutoring of engineer, Master memoirs and Thesis,
retraining sessions for professionals and partners

2. Research in

Forestry : forest zoning and mapping, forest and land use dynamics survey, management plan implementation
Ecology : delimitation of threatened faunistic species habitat
Tourism : identification of ecologic investment areas
Water and soil management : watershed management
Environment : environmental impact surveys
Development : vulnerability analyses and risk forecasting