RGIS - Mid-South Site

University of Arkansas Regional Economic Development/Decision Support

FY 2008 Fayetteville High School Commuter Expense Calculator
Fayetteville citizens can utilize this decision support tool to estimate yearly and monthly fuel expenses for commuting to the three proposed Fayetteville High School sites.

Browse and Download 2004 NWA Imagery (mrsids) via Google Earth
Registered uses can download a .kml/kmz file to open within Google Earth for browsing imagery footprints and downloading the datasets!    

View 2004 NWA Imagery Online    
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New sources for NW Arkansas Imagery
New high-resolution Northwest Arkansas aerial imagery is now available in Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth.

RGIS/CAST Rural Community Projects

About RGIS-Mid-South

The mission of the RGIS Consortium is to eliminate the digital divide facing rural America by promoting the transfer of geospatial technologies (i.e., Geographic Information Systems, GIS) to under-served rural areas by:

•  providing geospatial tools, technologies, and training to empower local governments, organizations, and citizens to understand and participate in decisions that affect their environment, economy, and quality of life;

•  educating and training a cadre of people to apply geospatial technologies to rural issues;

•  supporting the development of appropriate local land information systems, as well as linkage to and cooperation with regional, state, and national land information systems.

Our goal at RGIS?Mid-South (RGIS-MS) is to improve the effectiveness of government and the quality of life in rural America by increasing the use, application, and awareness of geospatial technologies for city, county, state, and regional governments. We accomplish these tasks through research, appropriate technology transfer, education (at multiple levels), and distribution of GIS data, supporting users, developing prototype applications, and by offering professional GIS education to a growing audience of new users.

 

** New ** 2004 Northwest Arkansas Imagery

The Northwest Regional Planning Commission organized a collaborative effort by many groups in the region that have acquired high resolution aerial imagery (12 in. resolution, true-color) from a Spring 2004 acquisition by the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department. This data has been loaded into Arkansas' GeoSpatial Data Distribution System, GeoStor (www.gis.state.ar.us), as of January 31, 2005. Recent publicity by local newspapers and television media has spurred interest in this data by many non-GIS users.

The RGIS-Mid-South office and other members of the NWA Imagery Task Force have been flooded with requests for these new imagery products. In order to provide improved access to this data, the RGIS-Mid-South office has developed an online imagery data viewer that provides access to the 2004 Aerial Photography via most any Internet browser. Data downloads or specialized software are not required! If you do require the actual data it is accessible via GeoStor.

Access to the NWA Imagery Viewer requires a ONE-TIME completion of a brief registration form. User information will not be redistributed (i.e., no SPAM) and RGIS-Mid-South staff will only notify users for website administration purposes.

Go to NWA Imagery Viewer Registration page
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Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST)

 

RGIS, along with the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST), has made many rural community projects possible. These projects include Community Asset and Development Information Systems (CADIS), GeoStor, Land Use Land Cover (LULC), and many others. To find out more about these projects, please visit the RGIS/CAST Rural Community Projects page.

The material on this website is based upon work supported in part by the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service , U.S. Department of Agriculture, under Agreement No. 2002-38813 01909. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

 

RGIS-Mid-South offers scholarships in the amount of $250.00 off the full price of $700.00 for participation in the ArcGIS I short-course.  Those eligible for the scholarship are:

1)       Secondary and higher education within the RGIS-Mid-South service area of Arkansas and surrounding states.

2)       County, city, and local government employees and elected officials.

Scholarships are available for the ArcGIS I short-course taken at RGIS-Mid-South/CAST facilities on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. Off-site classes can be arranged with the cost determined on a case-by-case basis.

For more information on class schedules and registration visit: http://www.cast.uark.edu/cast/info/shortcourse/standard.htm

Contact Information:

Fred Limp, Director
University of Arkansas
CAST
email: fred@cast.uark.edu

Brian Culpepper, Technical Outreach Specialist
University of Arkansas
RGIS/CAST
email: brian@cast.uark.edu

web: www.cast.uark.edu