Membership

BECOME A GIS LAB MEMBER !

NOTE: The information below is geared towards faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and staff who will be making use of the GIS Lab for research purposes. Students enrolled in classes making use of the GIS Lab are NOT expected to pay Lab fees. These fees are covered by the GPS division and should not be a deterrent to taking the class.

Caltech students or faculty engaged in GIS/RS-related learning, teaching and research can apply for a GIS Lab user account.

We offer the following types of user accounts:

Lab Membership Types

Stand-alone Users:
Remote User membership is ideal for those who will only be using the basic functions of ArcMap and would like to run it from their personal machine.

Light Users:
Light User membership is ideal for those who have their own equipment, but sometimes need to come into the lab for other reasons. This option is also good for the professors that want to include GIS in a project for their class, but do not necessarily want to make it the main focus.

Regular Users:
Regular User membership is ideal for those who are working on a short or long term project and for those who already own another computer system that is not supported with the GIS software (i.e. Macintosh). There are a few professors that use the GIS Lab for the weekly labs. The time is reserved and the students generally spend 3-8 hours per week in the GIS Lab.

Lab Membership Privileges

For costs and payment information email me!


	Lab Time	GIS Lab Use	Priority Lab Use	Unlimited Remote Use
Stand-alone User	0 Hours	No	No	Yes
Light User	< 10 Hours/Qtr	Yes	No	Yes
Regular User	> 10 Hours/Qtr	Yes	Yes	Yes

Lab Fee Summary


Stand-alone User	email me!
Light User	email me!
Regular User	email me!
ArcGIS Stand-alone License	$350/computer/yr
Project Preparation	$50/hr
Individual Instruction	$50/hr, 15 min increments
Software Installation/Troubleshooting	$50/hr, 15 min increments
GIS Workshop Tutorial	$35/person

Billing Notes

All fees must be charged to Caltech/JPL POETA account numbers. No double billing! The GIS Lab Membership Fee can be divided if a student is using the lab for both research and class use. This includes teaching assistants.