GIS Term Project Guideline
Students registered in GEOG 588
(i.e., graduate level) are required to submit a typed project outline to my
mailbox in 424 CH or email address (jduh@pdx.edu)
by 5 pm on Oct 27. Your final term
project will be carried out following the project outline. The outline should
include the following information.
- Problem statement: A short
paragraph describing the problem to be solved in your project and its
significance and contribution to a broader context.
- Specific aims / objectives:
Describe the questions you will answer using GIS approach.
- Study area and data layers:
Describe your study area, the GIS data layers needed to achieve your
aims/objectives, and the information that will be derived from analyzing
these data layers.
- Methods, techniques, and assumptions:
Describe the method and specific GIS techniques you will use to process
your data. State the assumptions involved in your methods. You don’t have
to spell out any specific GIS commands or operative procedures here, but
you need to point out the relevant GIS techniques you will apply, for example, using overlay analysis to
generate development suitability information based on, say, soil and slope
data.
- Expected results: Describe the
intended products of your project. The results can be maps, findings,
procedures (or algorithms), or a combination of them.
- Limitations and pitfalls: State
what could be the limitations of your project and why.
- Literature cited.
The quality of your project outline
is decided by the cohesiveness and logic of your problem statement, the clarity
of your objectives, and the appropriateness of the methods and techniques. The
complexity and comprehensiveness of your project will not be criteria in
judging the quality of your project.