About Us

The Geospatial Centroid is housed in the Department of Geography at Sacramento State University. The primary purposes of the Centroid are to:

Facilitate geospatial research support on-campus for CSUS faculty and student projects
Provide real-world work experience opportunities for CSUS students, developing critical workplace competencies
Encourage collaboration among faculty, students, and groups in the Sacramento-area community who benefit can from using geospatial technologies
Empower communities through geospatial research, maps, and geographic techniques
Develop spatial literacy and geospatial research on campus and in the community
Make geographic skills and expertise available to community-based non-profit organizations

Clients and Projects

Current Projects/Clients:

Community Engagement Center (2020-); GIS-based maps; Hornet Bus Tour
Mildly Scenic, a guidebook to the American River by Ashley Langdon (2023-2024); GIS-based maps

Past Projects/Clients:

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (2020-2022) data management, synthesis, analysis, documentation, QA/QC; map analysis; internal AGOL Dashboards