Laurence Rohter P.E.'s Home Page
Email Address: rohter@iit.edu
teaching Surveying, GIS and Transportation at the Illinois
Institute of
Technology.
office hours by appointment:
Laurence Rohter:
Licensed Professional Engineer in Illinois, working in the
Transportation field since 1971.
Currently an Adjunct Professor for the Department of Civil,
Architectural & Environmental Engineering at the Illinois
Institute of
Technology(IIT)
and a Senior Engineering Advisor for MiJack Products.
GIS On-Campus: rev 2007oct12
There are various GIS application resources available to
students and faculty.
Available through the OTS Labs (AM & E1) is:
Autodesk's Map3d which is a companion to their AutoCad.
Also available are several free-ware programs that are increasingly
powerful.
These include Accuglobe 2007 (available at www.ddti.net) and Quantum
GIS (QGIS)
There is also a limited set of ESRI's ArcGis available.
Accuglobe is highly recommended for its powerful capabilities in
creating and working with "shape" type files, the industry standard.
It can do many of the important functions that Arcview3.x was able to
perform, such as editing and manipulation.
There is of course, free viewers like Google Earth and ESRI's
ArcExplorer.
Current projects:
Kansas Agricultural
Colonies (2004_2006)
a project in geographical fidelity
Video survey of the I&M Canal.
Includes an ancillary task
collecting long/lat's for the
installed mile markers.
Contact directly via email for data values.
Samples for GIS are available at (the jpg is
approx 4meg; the tifs are approx 40meg each)
http://torrents.aelitis.com:88/torrents/IM_Canal_mp31tif.zip.torrent
http://torrents.aelitis.com:88/torrents/IM_Canal_mp32tif.zip.torrent
http://torrents.aelitis.com:88/torrents/IM_Canal_mp32jpg.zip.torrent
Shape
files of Illinois Trails.
Sample "data bundle" sets for several scenic sections are available
using bit torrent technology.
These will work with free gis software (accuglobe from
www.ddti.net) ( arcexplorer
from www.esri.com)
http://torrents.aelitis.com:88/torrents/Fox_River_US52_Wedron_utm_v1.zip.torrent
http://torrents.aelitis.com:88/torrents/Mazon_River_Illinois_long_lat_v1.zip.torrent
Contact directly via email for additonal catalog items.
Bit Torrent.
Bit Torrent for GIS is explained at http://www.iit.edu/~rohter/j_torrent.html
Samples of the newest NAIP imagery (2005) for the IIT campus are
available as bit torrent samples.
http://torrents.aelitis.com:88/torrents/2005naip16TDM470305iit_s.zip.torrent
http://torrents.aelitis.com:88/torrents/2005naip16TDM470320iit_n.zip.torrent
Tracker hosting courtesy by Alon of Aelitis.
The "Azureus" software for free bit torrent download can be obtained from
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php
As with any download, be aware, and know your sources.
Downloads.
Skytech -- Ghost City Chicago -- ESRI(r)
3d Markers are available at www.animagraph.com
Recent Publications and Presentations:
UK
Rail Network Achieves Geospatial Integration: L. Rohter,
Illinois Institute of Technology; S. Kimkeran, Omnicom Engineering
Ltd., England aJune
29, 2005 Proceedings, Institute
Of
Navigation 61st Annual Meeting Cambridge, Mass.
Education:
Georgia Institute of Technology, MSCE, Transportation
Illlinois Institute of Technology, BS, Civil Engineering
Experience:
includes 22 years with the IIT Research Institute (IITRI),
rising from Research Engineer to their highest professional position --
Senior Science Advisor.
Original member of RALES Railroad Simulator
construction team; honored with the IITRI Committment to Excellence
Award.
Operational leader, and main technical and marketing
support, for IITRI’s
world-wide railroad simulator sales with direct responsibility for
database application layers, and forward view technologies including
35mm Film, Active Video, and Computer Generated Imagery.
Laurence Rohter & Add Whattam / RALES Control Room / IITRI
last update 2007 oct 11 this is (www...) index.html
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