Formed in 1998, the GIS Center has grown into a well respected research center focusing on land cover change in the semiarid savannas of the intermountain west. While identifying change may be relatively simple, understanding the effect of land cover change --as well as the proximate and ultimate drivers of change-- is far more challenging.

The mission of the GIS TReC is to facilitate sound decision making through the use and application of geospatial technologies.