G 410/510 GIS for the Natural
Sciences
D. Percy
e-mail: percyd@pdx.edu
Winter Term 2000
M, W, F: 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, different projections... | 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"; modeling; analysis of distribution; complete spatial randomness, etc; circular distribution | Introductory Analysis |
| 6 | Raster analysis and operations; combining vector and raster | Raster project Project Proposal Due! |
| 7 | Analysis of distance to object type; buffers, temporal analysis and display, digitizing... | Earthquake analysis |
| 8 | Work on Project; individual meetings | |
| 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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