G 410/510 GIS for the Natural
Sciences
D. Percy
e-mail: percyd@pdx.edu
Winter Term 2000
Tu, Th: 12:45 – 13:50 NH 439
Tentative Syllabus
| Week | Lecture | Assignment |
| 1-2 | Tutorial and Testing | |
| 3 | Basics: Intro to GIS, finding basemaps, posting data | Posting data |
| 4 | Data Management; Relational vs Flat File; Spatial data transformations; | Linking tables, performing queries, reclassification |
| 5 | Intro to Spatial Analysis; "Significant vs Interesting"; beyond "points on maps"; modelling | Introductory Analysis |
| 6 | Analysis of directional data; faults, dune orientation; Von Mises circular distribution | Analysis of directional data Project Proposal Due! |
| 7 | Analysis of distance to object type; buffers, temporal analysis and display | Time slices |
| 8 | Trend surface analysis; regional trends; | Regionalized variables |
| 9 | Work on Project; individual meetings | |
| 10 | Work on Project; individual meetings | |
| 11 | Project Due! |
Comments or Problems? Contact percyd@pdx.edu
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