GIS-Laboratory

The institute has a computer pool which used for practical exercises. The students are allowed to used the GIS-laboratory 24 hours a day.

The entrance is controlled by an personal ID-Card and an electronic access device.

April 1998 - the Universities of Berlin signed a contract with the company ESRI. Within the frame of the contract convenants the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Technology is supplied with free packages from the ESRI Virtual Campus. The Virtual Campus is a web based training offering expertise about GIS-basics, -technology and -application. Detailed information you can find on http://campus.esri.com. [3]
Furthermore students of the institute are supported with an free one-year-valid license of ArcGIS Desktop. Interested Parties can contact the administrator of the GIS-laboratory.

Visual Paradigm [5] offers Technical University Berlin VP-UML [6], SDE-EC [7], SDE-VS [8] for educational use through the VP Academic Partner Program [9].

The FME Grant Program of the company Safe Software Inc. [11] gives the opportunity to use licenses for processing of spatial data.
One example is FME which allows to import more than 200 different data formats for GIS- and CAD-appplications, Web-services, spatial databases and 3D data formats.

A free network license from Vectorworks 2011 has been installed on the computers of the GIS-LAB for educational purpose. Furthermore students and lecturers are allowed to order a free version from ComputerWorks [13].

The Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance (MSDN AA [15]) is a speacial license program from the company Microsoft [16], which offers legal and free licenses for multiple Microsoft software products. More information you can find here [17].