G 424/524 GIS for the Natural Sciences
D. Percy
e-mail: percyd@pdx.edu

Week

Lecture

Reading

Assignment concepts

Assignment Status

1

Jan 9

Intro lecture, details of class, types of data, etc

GIS for Geoscientists, Bonham-Carter
pp 1-23

, online ESRI course

2

Basics: Intro to GIS, finding basemap layers, posting your own data, different projections, DEMs

GIS in Ecology, Johnston
pp 18 - 48

Posting data, joining attribute tables, choosing projection

Asgn 1 HO

3

Intro to Spatial Analysis; "Significant vs Interesting"; beyond "points on maps"; modeling; analysis of distribution; complete spatial randomness (CSR), poisson distribution; circular distribution; chi-square analysis

Introductory Analysis

Asgn 2 HO

4

Data Management; Relational vs Flat File; Spatial data transformations; MetaData!!!; data transfer standards;

Geological Data Management, Rasmussen, pp 5-11,

5

Feb 6

Raster analysis and operations; combining vector and raster; clipping

Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology, Davis, pp 293 - 312

Finding data, reprojecting data performing queries, reclassification

Asgn 3 HO

Ass 1/2 Due

6

Cross-sections; buffers, temporal analysis and display, digitizing...

Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology, Davis, pp 313 - 330

Raster Analysis and modelling

7

3D GIS, above and below ground

GIS and Environmental Modeling, Couclelis
pp 36 - 50

Earthquake analysis, spatial and temporal testing of statistical models

Asgn 3 Due

Asgn 4 HO

8

Web-GIS, simple and complex solutions to delivering web content

Work on Project; individual meetings

Asgn 4 Due

Asgn 5 HO

9

Work on Project; individual meetings

ASGN 5 DUE

10

Work on Project; individual meetings

Project Due!

11

Finals Week

In class presentations

Final Projects Due