INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Lab Facilities at IGISPosts FYDP Lab

Lab staff 

Introduction

The Final Year Design Project lab at IGIS, is available to all Final Year students for research and their project related work. The lab is equipped with dedicated i5 computers and run OSGeoLive, where students develop their own code for GIS based processing. It houses various high end computers, storage clusters, a Clinostat, microcontrollers and electronics items that students can use for creating their IoT components for the projects they do.

Available resources

Microcontroller boards and sensors for IoT

A dedicated set of IoT devices ae available for student to use in their project. These devices serve as the backend for many GIS applications and allow for real-time data collection and display.

3D Printing

For printing student project, related material, a 3D printer with sufficient supply of printing material always remain accessible. With a recommendation from their project supervisors, the students can print their ideas into designs and project components.

Augmented Reality setup for Tangible Landscapes

Here students can be seen working on an assembly that is meant for Augmented Reality toolset development.

2D clinostat for zero gravity simulation

The lab is also equipped with a clinostat. Which is also a part of the national space program of SUPARCO Pakistan. This equipment can simulate 0 gravity on objects placed on it, and then researchers/students can monitor the possible effect of lack of gravity on different plant species in different provided growth conditions.

Phantom 4 Pro Drone

 

Of the drones the lab houses a DJI Phantom 4 drones, which is used for survey and mapping needs of students, arising out of their projects.

The lab houses 2x computers with installation of Pix4D mapper, licenced by the department for academic use and student projects.