GEOG 4/575 Group Project

 

Guidelines

 

Students will work as groups for their term projects. These projects should involve the design and implementation of a GIS database for existing or potential GIS applications. Each group is required to submit a typed project outline to my mailbox in 424 CH or email address (jduh@pdx.edu) by 4 pm on Oct 28. Your final term project will be carried out following the project outline. The outline should include the following information.

 

  1. Background: A short paragraph describing the applications associated with the GIS database and the significance and contribution of these applications to a broader context.
  2. Design objectives: Describe the specific objectives that you will accomplish in your project.
  3. Data layer specifications and geographic extents: Describe your study area, the GIS data layers, and the topological characteristics of these data layers.
  4. Methods and techniques: Describe the method and specific GIS techniques you will use to compile and manipulate your data.
  5. Intended applications: Describe the intended applications of your GIS database and how your specific database design will facilitate such applications.
  6. Demonstration application: State a hypothetical or real scenario of using the database for geographical inquiry. This demonstration will be a part of your final project result.
  7. Limitations and quality statements: State what could be the limitations of your project and database and why.
  8. Literature cited.

 

The quality of your project outline is decided by the cohesiveness and logic of your arguments, the clarity of your objectives, and the appropriateness of the methods and techniques. The complexity and comprehensiveness of your project will not be criteria in judging the quality of your project. Please attach the metadata of your GIS database layers as an appendix to your final report.

 

Tentative groups and members

 

Community Development DB

Kuhn, Thomas              (thomask@pdx.edu)

Wood, Susan               (skw33@comcast.net)

Zike, Dara                    (dara@gofairtrade.net)

 

PNW Forest DB

Brewster, Erik              (brewster@pdx.edu)

Crouse, David              (crouse.david@gmail.com)

Rosen, David                (rosendm62@yahoo.com)

 

Resource Management DB

Brown, Donald (donbrown44@hotmail.com)

Cavazos, Michael         (michaelangelo1978@hotmail.com)

Cornett, Celia               (mccorn@pdx.edu)

McLain, Christopher     (witness_tree@lycos.com)

 

Riparian Ecosystems DB

Boeder, Michael           (mboeder@pdx.edu)

Hollis, Michelle (mhollis@pdx.edu)

Moeller, Devin  (devinm@pdx.edu)

Warren, Carl                (carlw@pdx.edu)

 

Urban Forest DB

Bunton, Delvin  (dbunton@fs.fed.us)

Kuhn, David                 (dkuhn@pdx.edu)

Martin, Nathan (nmart@pdx.edu)

Smith, Mark                 (mdsmith@pdx.edu)

 

Watershed DB

Koloszar, James           (jkoloszar01@yahoo.com)

Sobieszczyk, Steven     (ssobie@usgs.gov)

Vinson, Eric                  (evinson@pdx.edu)