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History
Geographic Information Systems have been a part of the Columbia campus since the mid-1980s. We were an early user of various
software and systems from a number of different vendors and Federal agencies. The continuity with GIS was solidified
in 1989 when the campus signed a license agreement with Environmental Systems Research Institute for a software site
license. From that license, which has distributed software to hundereds of users in the past 20 years, arose the
Campus GIS Support program.
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Participation
Support for GIS software, instruction, and research has evolved into participant-based funding model shared among a number of departments, institutional units and research groups. These committments allow all participants to receive ESRI software (that covered under our license agreement) and assistance in installation. A full support participation level also gives access to the support staff for: 1) GIS software and methodological consultation on desktop and client-server applications, 2) USC led campus-based and ESRI on-line training, and 3) use of equipment acquired through the support funds.
Staff are also available, and have a lengthy track record, for providing GIS-based lectures and exercises for classes when the instructor requests.
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