The Stanford Geospatial Center

SGC Mission

To encourage and support the use of geospatial technologies in research and teaching at Stanford University

SGC Services

  • Regular Instruction/Workshops Series
  • Custom Course Support Sessions
  • Hosted Vendor Workshops
  • Lab Space / Collaborative High Perfomance Computing Workspace
  • Small Group Demonstration/Consultation
  • 1:1 Consultation
  • Event Planning and Hosting
  • Materials processing (Cataloging, digitization, Indexing, etc...)

Current SGC Lab

  • 600 Square Feet of dedicated SGC Computing Lab Space
  • 9 High Performance Windows GIS Workstations (Dual Monitors, 6 cores, 16GB RAM, 1GB Graphics)
  • 38" Presentation Monitor
  • Seating Capacity of 20

SGC/Branner Shared Flex  Space

  • ~700 Square Feet
  • Flexible Furnishings
  • Teaching mode = ~30 Capacity
  • Theater Seating = ~50 Capacity
  • 84" 4k Presentation Screen
  • 84" "SmartBoard" presentation and digital whiteboard equipment
  • 12 Dell teaching desktops 

Future SGC Lab Space

  • 10 high-performance, dual monitor workstations with plugin and KVM switching for BYOL

  • 10 Dual Monitor BYOL plug-in Flex stations 

  • Tri-carells or Cabaret seating for 2 at each station 

  • Group/SGC Consultant workstation with seating and connectivity for 4-6 at large dual monitor screens

  • Display Screens 60"+ (Touchscreen) throughout space for ubiquitous viewing

  • Instructors Island with Crestron room controls, document camera, dual monitors, etc...
  • Adjacent Professional Staff Offices
  • Whiteboards and Pin Walls
  • Displays linked to Branner/SGC Flex Space, for using SGC as overflow 'annex' or simulcasting live events. 

The SCALE-UP Project has established a highly collaborative, hands-on, computer-rich, interactive learning environment for large-enrollment courses. Class time is spent primarily on hands-on activities, simulations, and interesting questions as well as hypothesis-driven labs

Technology Enhanced Active Learning Spaces

Active learning classrooms (ALCs) are spaces configured to maximize active, collaborative learning and multimodal teaching, in contrast with traditional lecture-style classrooms.

Carnegie Mellon University’s Collaborative Teaching Cluster

Yale’s Center for Science and Social Science Information

Future SGC/Branner Flex Space

  • Should accommodate events (theater seating), tech-enhanced quiet study space and overflow teaching (Cabaret seating), from the SGC Lab

  • TEAL - Lite space (Functionality to cast events between SGC Lab and Flex) 

  • Reconfigurable furnishings

  • Adjacent to Breakroom/Kitchen (event catering)

  • Adjacent to SGC

  • VLA Screen(s)

  • Speaker/Instructor Podium with Crestron controls

  • Full Teleconferencing/Telecasting capabilities

  • Power & wifi rich

  • https://www.revelr.com/ 

Marx Library @Yale

Librarians' glass-front offices line the back wall of the Study Room East

Geo-Visualization Center

Liquid Galaxy / VLA Screens

VLA Screens

VLA Screens

Liquid Galaxy

Liquid Galaxy

Projection Globe(s)

Projection Globe(s)

Projection Globe(s)

Tactile Landscape / AR & VR / 

Exhibit Spaces & Public/Landscape Art

Huang Engineering Center Innovations Tour

HP Garage Reproduction

Stanford Campus Curiosities

HP Garage Reproduction

Stanford Outdoor Collections

Monument to Change

The Harvey Cushing Center at Yale

SGC 2027 Inspiration Deck

By Stace Maples

SGC 2027 Inspiration Deck

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