Environmental Visualization Laboratory

The new and improved Environmental Visualization Laboratory (EVL), located in room 630 on the 6th floor of the Bank of America center (137 E. Franklin Street), offers to the UNC environmental community a unique facility for the computerized modeling and visualization of environmental data. The EVL is equipped with five top-of-the-line Mac Pro (Quad-Core Intel Xeon multiprocessors) running Mac OSX (Unix). Each computer has two cinema-size (30") display screens.

The EVL includes convenient conference space with a 77" smart board system to facilitate interactive presentations. Visualization and analysis software packages such as ArcGIS, Matlab and Mathematica are available in all machines, as well as specialized visualization software such as EVA and Panoply. Users may also install other visualization or research-oriented software packages upon request.

The facility is available to faculty and students of the IE and affiliated departments as a research tool. To schedule the use of the facility, please send a brief email with your research project description and visualization needs to Dr. Jose A. Rial (jar@email.unc.edu), EVL director, or to EVL's IT specialist, Brian Naess (naess@unc.edu).