Introduction
to GIS Geol 4331
Fall 2005
Instructor:
Katya Casey
Office:
Phone:
713-961-8294
Email: katyacasey@gmail.com
Textbook:
Fundamentals of geographic information systems by Michael DeMers
Meeting:
Thursdays 7-10 pm
Every
Thursday:
1 hour 20
min lecture
in room 128
10 min break
1.5 hour lab
in room 230
Frequent
quizzes on definitions and concepts
Office
hours: Best to ask questions during the class. As requested by appointment
every other Friday 11 a.m. till 2 p.m.
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Date |
Tentative
Lecture Topic |
Lab/Lecture |
Source |
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Aug. 24 |
Syllabus,
course outline Digital
Geography and Basic Geographic concepts, Remote sensing Tutorial
1 |
Lecture1 Ex.1 PowerStart
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Handouts DeMers Ch
1,2 |
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Aug 31 |
Projection
systems, resolution, Data representation Exploring
ArcCatalogue (Getting to Know GIS Ch 4) |
Lecture2, Ex. 2on
ArcCatalogue |
Handouts Ch 3,4,5 |
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Sept. 7 |
Projection
changes, units conversion, editing and errors, Introduction to maps, Elementary
spatial analysis. Map critique Symbolysing
the map (Getting to Know GIS Ch 5) |
Lecture3 Ex 3 on
ArcMAP |
Handouts DeMers Ch
6, 7 |
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Sept. 14 |
Geographic
data collection, Cartographic and GIS data structures and data base concepts,
GIS data input, Digitizing, Scanning Tutorial
6 |
Lecture 4,
Ex4 on Digitizing |
Ch5 |
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Sept. 21 |
Guest
Speaker on SDE and Database concepts Geodatabase
and topology. Google Earth, Virtual Earth, ArcExplorer Tutorial
4 |
Lecture 5,
Group 1 presentation on Feature Sets Ex: 5 Build
a Geodatabase |
Handouts ESRI web
site |
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Sept. 28 |
Working
with Grids. Assignment
of final project. Definition of the final project and discussion on the data collection
and resources for the final project |
Lecture 6,
Group 2 presentation on grids Ex: 6 Grid
exercise -custom |
Handouts |
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Oct. 5 |
Georeferencing, Importing Spatial and attribute data Tutorial
5 Review
before exam |
Lecture 7 Ex 7 on Georeferencing Ex 8 -
tutorial 5 |
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Oct. 12 |
Map
design, GIS data manipulation, spatial data processing- Model Builder
Tutorial 2; Spatial Analysis- Tutorial 8 |
Lecture 8,
Exercises 9 and 10 on spatial data
processing |
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Oct. 19 |
Spatial
Analysis Tutorial
9 |
Lecture 9 Ex 11 on
spatial analysis |
Ch 13 |
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Oct. 26 |
Exam Lecture:
Database tools- editing, joining, linking, query and summarization |
Exam 1.5
hours Lecture
10 |
Ch 6, 7 Handouts |
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Nov. 2 |
Spatial
analysis and GIS outputs. Tutorial
3 Project
work in class |
Lecture 11
Presentation Group3 –Layouts, templates |
Ch 7, 12 |
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Nov. 9 |
Metadata
in ArcGIS and definition of the projections for the data GIS
examples in real life, Reviews |
Lecture
12, Presentation Group4 -metadata |
Ch 5;
handouts |
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Nov. 16 |
Enterprise
GIS, Industry examples Homework
due on training project |
Lecture
13, Group 5 Presentation: workflow using arc editor, Project work |
Ch 6, 7,
8 |
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Nov. 23 |
Thanksgiving |
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Nov 39 |
What is
coming in ArcGIS 9.2 Building
a map, Reviews, work on final project |
Lecture
14 Project
Work in class |
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Dec 7 |
Final Project is due |
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Grading:
Mid-term Exam 35%, Final Project 35%, Homework/quizzes 30%. Homework should be submitted on time, at
the next meeting after the assignment the latest. 50% will be deducted from the
grade if turned in later than 1 week from the assignment date.
All exam
definition questions are from the assigned chapters of the book or handouts.