Mission Statement

The Center for Earth Observation (CEO) at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is a multi-disciplinary research and training center, established in 1983 on the North Carolina State University campus. The faculty and the staff of CEO are associated with the College of Natural Resources. Our Director, Dr. Siamak Khorram, is also affiliated with the College of Engineering. A large number of faculty and graduate students from many disciplines campus-wide use the facilities of the Center in their research and training programs. Our research facilities are composed of several laboratories specializing in the field of Geoinformatics. Our Associate Director for GIS, Dr. Hugh Devine, is in charge of the Geographic Information Science Research and Teaching Program. CEO is an Affiliate Campus of the International Space University in Strasbourg, France. CEO is located in the west wing of the fifth floor of Jordan Hall on central campus.

Facilities Description

The Center provides extensive computer hardware and software facilities and a large and varied research and teaching agenda. The showpiece of these facilities is a large teaching laboratory with over 20 high-end Windows NT workstations and excellent multimedia instruction capabilities. The Center also maintains a high-end research laboratory with one specialized UNIX workstation, several powerful NT workstations, an advanced multimedia workstation, a softcopy photogrammetry workstation, and a separate instructional technology development facility. These systems are integrated into the University's high-speed network of over 2,000 NT and UNIX seats. Our facilities also include numerous peripheral computer graphics devices including digital cameras, film recorders, digitizers, large and small format plotters, color printers, scanners, air photo interpretation equipment, and GPS units. Cooperative arrangements with other campus units and with various state government agencies provide access to even more specialized equipment.

Message from the Director

The Center for Earth Observation offers state-of-the-art capability for special purpose computing and geoinformatics research and training to any interested faculty, staff, or student on the NCSU campus. Our doors are also open to our neighbor institutions including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, Research Triangle Institute, and the North Carolina Supercomputing Center. We are involved with and enthusiastically welcome joint educational and research efforts with other educational institutions in the U.S. and abroad.

Siamak Khorram, Ph.D.
Professor and Director

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