Geospatial Software
Geospatial Software
Geospatial software available to students, staff, and faculty on CSUMB teaching lab workstations and for use on their own personal computers.
CSUMB subscribes to the CSU GIS Specialty Center's Esri Site License, securing access to Esri's entire ArcGIS Platform of desktop, server, and online GIS software for academic, research, and administrative use.
Vendor description:
ArcGIS is your first step toward better, smarter decision making and a more efficient organization. Just about every problem and situation has a location aspect. Unlock the power of location with ArcGIS.
ArcGIS Pro
ArcGIS for Desktop: ArcGIS Pro is installed in all teaching and common-use Windows computer labs at CSUMB.
CSUMB students, staff, and faculty can download ArcGIS Pro from profile section of their CSUMB Education and Research AGOL Organization account.
The licensing for ArcGIS Pro is administered via the user's ArcGIS Online (AGOL) and Esri accounts ("Named User" licensing). CSUMB community members can obtain a license for ArcGIS Pro via their CSUMB Education and Research AGOL Organization account (see below), or contact gis@csumb.edu for other options.
ArcGIS Online (AGOL)
All CSUMB students, staff, and faculty have access to ArcGIS Online and are members of CSUMB's Education and Research ArcGIS Online organization.
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ArcGIS delivered as software as a service (SaaS)
Get started quickly with the most trusted mapping and analytics platform used by Fortune 500 companies. It is enterprise-ready and scalable for small teams and large organizations.
CSUMB Geospatial Teaching Labs have Pix4Dmapper Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry software for creating orthomosaic images, point clouds, digital terrain models, and solid models from collections of aerial and other images.
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Pix4Dmapper: Professional photogrammetry software
Pix4Dmapper turns your images into highly precise, georeferenced 2D maps and 3D models. They’re customizable, timely, and complement a wide range of applications and software.
CSUMB Geospatial Teaching Labs have Agisoft Metashape Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry software for creating orthomosaic images, point clouds, digital terrain models, and solid models from collections of aerial and other images.
Vendor description:
Agisoft Metashape is a stand-alone software product that performs photogrammetric processing of digital images and generates 3D spatial data to be used in GIS applications, cultural heritage documentation, and visual effects production as well as for indirect measurements of objects of various scales.
CSUMB Geospatial Teaching Labs have GPS Pathfinder Office installed for use with our stable of Trimble Juno 3B and GeoXM data collectors.
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Powerful and easy to use GNSS data processing software
Trimble® GPS Pathfinder® Office software is a powerful and easy-to-use software package of GNSS postprocessing tools. Incorporating Trimble® DeltaPhase™ differential correction technology the software is designed to develop GIS information that is consistent, reliable, and accurate from GNSS data collected in the field.
Under CSUMB's academic agreement with QPS, CSUMB Geospatial Teaching Labs have the Fledermaus software suite installed for visualization and processing of 3D and 4D point clouds, surfaces, and other data sets.
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Fledermaus is the industry leading interactive 4D geo-spatial processing and analysis tool
With the release of Version 7.0 we have moved this to the next dimension: the addition of a fully integrated time reference allowing users to work in a true space and time environment.
While not expressly geospatial software, R is a statistical computing environment that can be used for geospatial applications, and is featured in many CSUMB courses. R is installed in all Science Teaching Labs in the Chapman Science Academic Center (SAC, Building 53) and the Science Instructional Lab Annex (Building 50).
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R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. To download R, please choose your preferred CRAN mirror.