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Kansas State University Modernizes Geospatial Research with Geocat on AWS

When Kansas State University’s GIS Spatial Analysis Lab needed to overcome the limits of aging infrastructure, they envisioned a cloud-native platform that could scale with cutting-edge research. The result, Geocat, a powerful ArcGIS Enterprise environment built on AWS and supported by ROK Technologies.

With Geocat, students and researchers can now run advanced 3D modeling, GeoAI, and high-resolution environmental analysis at scale. By leveraging Amazon Web Services and ROK Technologies’ Managed Cloud expertise, K-State has created a future-ready GIS platform that empowers discovery, collaboration, and reproducibility across disciplines.

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AWS introduced the team to ROK Technologies, an AWS Partner with expertise in ArcGIS cloud deployments. “ROK specializes in the setup of ArcGIS software in the cloud,” said Dr. Shawn Hutchinson, professor and director of the GIS Spatial Analysis Lab. “Having a team of people who are thoroughly fluent in ArcGIS is a huge asset. They handle the maintenance, the updates, the optimization of the system so that we get every ounce of performance possible out of it.”

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