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CASA Lab
College
of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Social
and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute
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The Center for Applied Spatial Analysis (CASA) at the University of
Arizona is a geographic information system (GIS) research facility
within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS).
CASA's mission is to facilitate the use of geographic information
systems, spatial data, and related techniques (such as cartography,
remote sensing, and spatial analysis) within the college of Social and
Behavioral Sciences. CASA supports and develops research projects
and encourages the wider use of GIS and related techniques in the social
sciences through collaboration on grants, demonstrations, training,
teaching and internships.
CASA operates in the following areas:
Research
 | Form research partnerships with faculty, staff and students within
SBS |
| Perform GIS analysis for faculty and staff on a contract basis |
Education
| Participate in development and implementation of core GIS
curriculum at the University of Arizona |
| Provide formal and informal GIS training within SBS |
| Train research assistants and interns |
Service
| Develop and maintain libraries of social science spatial data and
metadata |
| Develop custom applications to serve common data processing
requirements in SBS, e.g., data subsetting, data normalization, and
data delivery |
| Provide expert GIS assistance to faculty, staff and students
within SBS |
| Provide access to GIS software and hardware (as space permits) |
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