CENTER FOR ADVANCED SPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES

The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST), established in 1991, is an element of the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences but has a campuswide role with the active involvement of the Fulbright College, the College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, the College of Engineering, the College of Business Administration, and the School of Architecture. CAST focuses on making Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related technologies available to a wide audience through research, undergraduate and graduate education, spatial data distribution, technology transfer, professional education, digital photogrammetry, remote sensing and interoperability.

The more than 30 CAST staff members come from diverse backgrounds such as architecture, archeology, agronomy, geography, forestry, wildlife biology, social sciences, surveying, engineering, geology, computer science, landscape architecture, remote sensing, photo interpretation and historic preservation.

The National Center for Resource Innovations­Southwest (NCRI-SW) is one of six regional centers throughout the U.S. whose mission is to transfer GIS and related technologies to county and local governments. Established at the University of Arkansas in 1990, NCRI -SW became part of CAST in 1991.