CSA is a multidisciplinary research center housed on OU-Norman's research campus. As a division of OU’s College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, CSA specializes in applied research and development using geospatial technologies such as Enterprise GIS solutions, relational database management systems, web mapping, and custom geospatial web and mobile applications.
With full-time research, professional, and administrative staff, CSA maintains a secure computing infrastructure to support research, development, and data dissemination.
CSA has nearly 30 years of applied geospatial research experience. CSA's research areas currently include global environmental change monitoring and detection and geospatial data science and urban analytics. Some areas of focus include remotely sensed and geospatial big data, time series analysis, remote sensing algorithm development, data fusion, and geovisualization.
Point of Contact: Dr. Chengbin Deng, Director
Email: cdeng@ou.edu
CSA has expertise in geospatial web application development, with a primary focus in Enterprise GIS solutions, web mapping, data creation, editing and maintenance, custom applications, and geospatial data analysis.
We provide consulting services to various federal, state, tribal, county, and municipal government agencies and hold long term projects in support of various state agencies and councils of government.
Point of Contact: Dr. Todd Fagin, Executive Associate Director
Email: tfagin@ou.edu
CSA contributes to a variety of educational programs and events to support the use of geospatial technologies in schools, communities, and businesses. This includes hosting GIS Day at OU annually and developing custom workshops on a variety of GIS workflows.
Point of Contact: Dr. Daniela Spade, GIS Application and Outreach Coordinator
Email: dspade@ou.edu
The GIS Data Warehouse is your one stop shop for open access maps and geospatial data downloads developed and maintained by CSA. Viewers can explore interactive web mapping applications illustrating various demographic, legislative, municipal, educational and other geospatial data.
Visit the GIS Data Warehouse
CSA has launched a New Data Warehouse Site. If you need assistance navigating the new site please contact Zak Gipson by email at zakarygipson@ou.edu
If you are having trouble being redirected to the new site please clear your browser cache.
Use the links below to access school district and school transportation district mapping apps & maps.
NOTICE: These links are accessing pages of the new CSA GIS Data Warehouse. If you have trouble accessing the data or maps you need, please contact Zak Gipson by email at zakarygipson@ou.edu.