Geo-spatial facilities

ITC houses unique geospatial facilities, including laboratories, field sites and software. They support our research, education and institutional development work.

Welcome to our state-of-the-art geospatial laboratories and facilities, where innovation and discovery converge. Our specialised facilities are equipped with cutting-edge technology and staffed by experts in their respective fields. Explore the unique geospatial facilities below.

Laboratories

Design and interactive space for co-creating

State-of-the-art Interactive surfaces and tangible user interfaces to facilitate hands-on education and research.

TheDISC

Drone lab

We use drones and autonomous robots for geoscience applications, research and capacity-building projects

Drone lab UAV Centre

Field laboratories

Field laboratories for atmosphere, surface water, and solid earth, including booking of field equipment

Water laboratory Geophysics laboratory General laboratory

Field sites

ITC maintains several Earth observation sites and unique semi-controlled outdoor settings to support research and education.

Earth Observation sites UT Fieldlab

Geochemical laboratories

The Geochemical laboratories use different analytical instruments to determine Earth's chemical elements, such as rock, soil, leaves and water.

Chemical wet lab | eDNA lab | Preparation lab | Soil lab

Geospatial Computing Platform

The Geospatial Computing Platform enables the efficient addressing of large-scale geospatial challenges by providing a state-of-the-art geocomputing infrastructure.

Geospatial Computing Platform

Remote Sensing and GIS lab

At the Remote Sensing and GIS (RSG) lab you will receive support to obtain remote sensing images or Geographic Information Science (GIS) data.

Remote Sensing and GIS lab Satellite & sensor database GeonetCast

Spectroscopy lab

In the spectroscopy laboratory, we identify and map materials through spectroscopic remote sensing.

Spectroscopy Plant physical parameter determinations

Visualisation and usability analysis facility

A fully equipped spatial data visualization and usability analysis facility.

Geospatial data visualization and cartography Usability analysis

Resources

Library and research information

University Library (login)Research Information

Living text book

A novel way to display content digitally. Combine the versatility of a wiki with the visual representation of concepts and their relationships.

Living textbook

Open source software and tools

Developed and/or co-developed software, models and demos to retrieve and handle information from spatial data.

Overview