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424/524 GIS for the Natural Sciences
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Week |
Lecture |
Reading |
Assignment concepts |
Assignment Status |
1 |
Intro lecture, details of class, types of data, etc |
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online ESRI
course (on your own, just FIRST module. )
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2 |
Basics: Intro to GIS, finding basemap layers, posting your own data, different projections, DEMs |
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Posting data, joining attribute tables, choosing projection |
Asgn 1 HO |
3 |
Intro to Spatial Analysis;
"Significant
vs Interesting"; beyond "points on maps";
modeling;
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Introductory Analysis |
Asgn 2 HO |
4 |
Data Management; Relational vs Flat File; Spatial data transformations; MetaData!!!; data transfer standards;
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Johnston
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Asgn 3 HOAsgn 1/2 DueQuiz 1 |
5 |
Raster analysis and operations; combining vector and raster; clipping |
Rasmussen
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Finding data, reprojecting data performing queries, reclassification |
Review Paper due |
6 |
Cross-sections; buffers, temporal analysis and display, digitizing... |
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Raster Analysis and modelling |
Midterm - Wednesday
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7 |
analysis of distribution; complete spatial randomness (CSR), poisson distribution; circular distribution; chi-square analysis |
Davis,
DeLongley |
Earthquake analysis, spatial and temporal testing of statistical models |
Project Proposal Due!Asgn 4 DueAsgn 5 HO |
8 |
Web-GIS, simple and complex solutions to delivering web content |
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Work on Project; individual meetings |
Quiz 2 - Wednesday
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9 |
3D GIS, above and below ground |
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Work on Project; individual meetings |
ASGN 5 DUE |
10 |
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Work on Project; individual meetingsProject Due! |
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11
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Finals Week |
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In class presentations
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Final Projects Due |