The Earth and Planetary Image Facility (EPIF) is an interdisciplinary research facility hosting students with backgrounds in several academic disciplines including Geography, Electro-optics, Geology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Sciences, and Agriculture. The facility is located in the Department of Geography and Environmental Development in the main campus of BGU.

The facility is a NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility with an active archive of maps and remotely sensed images from the Solar System;

The facility has Image processing hardware and software packages based on Linux and Windows workstations fully equipped with licenses of ERDAS IMAGINE, ENVI IDL, PCI and Arc/GIS and eCognition.

A variety of Field equipment that operate as mobile laboratories.