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

Week

Lecture

Reading

Assignment concepts

Assignment Status

1

Jan 4

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

Asgn 1 HO (in lab), online ESRI course (on your own)

2

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

Posting data, joining attribute tables, choosing projection

Asgn 2 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

4

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

Asgn 3 HO

Asgn 1/2 Due

5

Feb 1

Raster analysis and operations; combining vector and raster; clipping

Finding data, reprojecting data performing queries, reclassification

 Review Paper due

Asgn 3 Due

Asgn 4 HO

6

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

Raster Analysis and modelling

7

3D GIS, above and below ground

Earthquake analysis, spatial and temporal testing of statistical models

Asgn 4 Due

Asgn 5 HO

8

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

Work on Project; individual meetings

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