G 424/524 GIS for the Natural Sciences

D. Percy
e-mail: percyd@pdx.edu

Course Objectives - Or, What you should (have) learn (ed)

• Make a basic map with cartographic elements: North arrow, Scale bar, Legend, Multiple views (overview and detail).

• Import your own data from a spreadsheet

• Select elements in one theme based on elements in another theme

• Filter themes based on table attributes

• Create your own subsets of data, by selecting or clipping

• Basic querying of table attributes

• Basic analysis of vector data, ie Point-in-Polygon

• Download data from public websites

• Convert from E00 files (ArcInfo Interchange)

• Convert vector data to and from any projection!

• Organize your data into folders (without spaces in the names!)

• Interpolation of point data to surface (raster) data

• Compare point patterns to Complete Spatial Randomness, test statistically

• Simple analysis of raster data, including comparing multiple themes

• Joining tables of data to get attributes from one table to another, based on spatial or attribute data

• Export data to other packages for advanced analysis

• Chloropleth!!!

• Use the GIS as a platform for statistical analysis and modeling

• Extending the GIS with scripts and extensions

• Logistic Regression!