The Arkansas GIS Users Forum is a non-profit organization of GIS professionals and citizens interest in geospatial technology. The Forum leadership provide an email distribution list, bi-annual conference, and Spring and Fall meetings full of useful information related to the geospatial industry. There is no fee to join the Forum.
The Arkansas Geographic Information Office (AGIO) is a State agency which acts as the functional arm of the State’s Geographic Information Systems Board. AGIO’s premier service is GeoStor, the state’s geographic information systems platform. The AGIO also coordinates data acquistion and collection effors for digital ortho photography, road and addressing layers, parcel layers and administrative boundaries.
GeoStor provides access to geographic information system applications, publicly available GIS data, and web services in the state of Arkansas for no-fee. Users need a working knowledge of GIS to utilize the service.
The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST), located at the University of Arkansas, focuses on research, education, outreach, and applications in geomatics, including GIS, geospatial analysis and modeling, high density survey, enterprise spatial databases, remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, geospatial interoperability and other areas. Much of CAST’s research efforts involve new approaches to spatial data and the development of new methodologies for analysis of these data.
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock UALR GIS Application Labratory provides demographic, environmental, marketing and socioeconomic data through the development of geopolitical databases and applications. This facility assists businesses, governmental agencies and educational institutions in Arkansas with training, database resources and problem resolution. The UALR GIS Lab also serves as the Arkansas Census Data Center.
The Spatial Information Systems (SIS) program at the University of Arkansas at Monticello School of Forest Resources will provide graduates (the drivers) to meet the growing demand for a geo-technology workforce. The Spatial Information Systems program leads to a Bachelor of Science in SIS or an Associate of Science in Land Surveying Technology. The curriculum incorporates Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) as well as other geospatial tehcnologies.