The Geospatial Core Facility is a team of geospatial professionals that span the human and environmental components of geospatial analysis.
The GCF has discipline-specific expertise and leverages state of the art science analysis,
technology, and computing. Our purpose is to advance geospatial research while also
supporting MSU’s Grand Challenge Research Goals. We welcome the opportunity to bolster
the university’s status as a regional and national leader in its Grand Challenge areas.
The GCF team using a drone to map snowfall on the roof of MSU's SUB
The Geospatial Core Facility is committed to four interrelated and complementary components.
- Expanding and facilitating interdisciplinary research through geospatial data collection, analysis, and visualization.
- Supporting external funding along the continuum of the grant process from proposal conceptualization to data collection, analysis, geo-visualization, & dissemination.
- Developing new educational opportunities focused on geospatial technologies and analysis for students at MSU and MUS campuses, and through outreach across Montana and beyond.
- Growing mutually beneficial partnerships that support informed public policy and governance and help financially sustain the longer-term viability of the GCF.
