GeoTREE Center
Who We Are
The Geoinformatics Training, Research, Education, and Extension (GeoTREE) Center, located within the Department of Geography at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI), is a applied and research geospatial technology Center. The Center regularly relies on talented and experienced undergraduate and graduate student research assistants as well as GIS and Remote Sensing scientists/analysts to address real-world challenges. The GeoTREE Center has continually supported the use of geospatial technologies at UNI, in Iowa, and beyond since its creation in 2006. The Center has always attempted to meet the goals in its name - training of faculty/staff/students at UNI and K-12 students and professionals in Iowa, supporting and conducting research, providing real-world hands-on learning to our undergraduate and graduate students, and developing and delivering unique and valuable spatial data and tools. The GeoTREE Center has collaborated with students, faculty, and staff across the UNI campus while also working with many clients and collaborators from federal, state, and local government agencies in addition to non-profit agencies and private industry.
Our Mission
Our mission is to expand and promote the effective use and understanding of geospatial technologies by applying them to research, education, and real-world applications while also training next-generation professionals studying at UNI. These technologies include, but are not limited to, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Remote Sensing, Web Mapping, and more. Through collaborative research applied use of technologies for real-world problems the Center provides valuable service to clients and collaborators while providing practical work experience for students.
By encouraging the adoption of these technologies, the Center helps deepen understanding of spatial data and its immense potential to address real-world problems across diverse sectors. This allows the Center to help communities by tackling environmental challenges, social disparities, economic development, and governmental issues.