Welcome to the Geographic Information Systems Unit  of the Department of City and Regional Planning, King Fahd University of  Petroleum and Minerals. Please go through the following links.

Introduction

This GIS Unit  was established in 1998 under the management of City and Regional Planning Department with the purpose of serving as a teaching, training, and research center for graduate students and department faculty. It equips the students with technical GIS knowledge for careers in a variety of planning fields and help the local organizations hire the personnel with hands on GIS experience. It also helps faculty in their research activities. The Unit has been utilized to offer regular GIS courses. Also many short courses in GIS have been conducted during the last four years using this GIS Unit. Thus, the Unit introduces the use of GIS technology to people working in both public and private sector in this area. The unit also aims in future to provide consultancy for GIS users in the area.

The unit is well equipped with sophisticated state-of-the-art hardware and software, enabling students and researchers to use them in their respective projects. It currently uses ArcView, ArcInfo and ArcIMS as its main GIS software in addition to other general-purpose software. The GIS Unit provides space for 18 students simultaneously with access to GIS software, GPS technology, digitizing pads and state of the art equipment and peripherals such as Large format Digitizer, Scanner, Printer and heavy duty color and laser printers.

Hardware 
 

The unit is equipped with 18 networked Pentium IV PCs operating on Windows XP. Each computer has 512 MB of RAM, 40 GB hard drive and  17" Monitors. 

Software
 

The unit is currently using world's leading GIS software from ESRI Inc. such as ArcView 3.2a and its extensions, Arc/Info PC 3.5, ArcGIS 9.0 version, ArcSDE 9.0 and ArcIMS 9.0

Peripherals 
 

The unit is equipped with peripherals such as large  format plotter, large format scanner, flatbed scanner, DeskJet printers and laser printers. 

GPS Receivers
 

The unit is equipped with 6 GPS Receivers.

GIS-Related Semester Based Courses

CRP 514: Introduction to GIS (Semester-based course) 
CRP 515: Advanced Topics in GIS (Semester-based course)
CRP 507 Computer-aided Planning

GIS Short Courses

           - Short Courses in GIS
 

Useful Links

http://www.esri.com/

http://campus.esri.com/

http://www.directionsmag.com/

http://www.gisdevelopment.net/

http://www.esriindia.com/

http://www.gisqatar.org.qa/

http://www.gis.com/

http://www.gisnetwork.com/

http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/584/584_help.htm

http://www.cadmagazine.net

http://www.gismagazine.net

http://www.gpsmagazine.net

 

Contact Persons:

Please contact at the following address for any question about the GIS Unit

                             Dr. Baqer Al-Ramadan, GIS Unit Coordinator
                             Mail Box 5053, KFUPM 
                             Dhahran 31261 Saudi Arabia 
                             Phone: +966 3 860 4974
                             Fax:      +966 3 860 4795

bramadan@kfupm.edu.sa

http://www.kfupm.edu.sa/crp/baqer.html

Please contact at the following address for any software/hardware/users related support.

Mohammed Raziuddin, GIS Unit Administrator and Webmaster
Mail Box 1267, KFUPM

Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia

Phone: +966 3 860 2331
 

razi@kfupm.edu.sa

http://www.kfupm.edu.sa/crp/raziuddin.html