GIS Data
Bases, Winter 2007
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Location: AH 16, 2:00-3:50, Tuesday and Thursday
Instructor:
Michael Medler
Office: AH 210, 650-3173
Email: michael.medler@wwu.edu
Office Hours: Wed. 1:00-3:00 (though in office or lab much of the
day Monday and Wednesday)
TA: Jay Bolthouse
Office: AH 213
Office Hours: TBA, and by appointment
Email: jebbolt@hotmail.com
GIS Specialist: Stefan Freelan, AH 201, Email: stefan@wwu.edu. 650-2949
Course
Objective:
This course is the middle stage in the year long EGEO 450, 451, 452 series. This course is intended for students with computer and cartographic skills and at least one quarter of GIS background and EGEO 450. We will advance our skills with many, but certainly not even most, of the techniques for acquiring, creating, manipulating, producing, assessing, and disseminating spatial data. Each student will create and maintain a personal web page for turning in assignments and disseminating data. Most assignments and readings will be posted on this class web pages.
Lectures will tend to occur during the first hour of each day. On the first day of each week we will have an introduction to the weekly lab. Labs are worth 10 points each. Most labs will be assigned in class on Tuesdays and be due by 2:00 PM the following Tuesday, unless stated otherwise. If the TA is notified before hand, late labs lose only 20% each day late, otherwise worth they are worth 0 points.
During the course, students will also be responsible for developing a teaching session that will educate their peers in some application of a specific GIS technique. The course will then culminate with a final poster as well as a written and presented GIS project proposal for a spring EGEO 452 project.
Link to EGEO 451 web pages from 2006
Very Preliminary Schedule
| Labs\Lab7.html Week 1 Jan. 9, 11 | |
| Week 2 Jan. 16, 18 |
Lab 1 Read Bolstad Chapter 14 Downloading and extracting data sets |
| Week 3 Jan. 23, 25 |
Lab 2
17th, 3D Visualization and Multivariate Data Link to the Viz-o-matic video |
| Week 4 Jan. 30, Feb. 1 |
Lab 3 GPS, Creating and merging data sets Introduction to GIS proposal and project |
| Week 5 Feb. 6, 8 |
Lab 4 Remote Sensing Lecture, TM Band Page, Read Bolstad Chapter 6
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| Week 6 Feb. 13, 15 |
Lab 5
2/13 Topic: Jay , 2/15 Brian |
| Week 7 Feb. 20, 22 |
Lab 6
Accuracy and
Accuracy Assessment Reading on Accuracy Bolstad Chapter 1 2/20: Colin and Jenn, Robert 2/22: , Peter and Nick |
| Week 8 Feb. 27 , Mar 1 |
Lab 7 Access, Access data in GIS 2/27: Jessica and Art, Tim 3/1: Katie and Sarah, Doug, Stacy and Cody, Kevin |
| Week 9 Mar. 6, 8 |
Lab 8
GIS Projects ppt Prepare Proposal Presentations 3/6: Kellee, Nick and Ethan, Teresa 3/8: Jenna and Kara, Will, Justin and Byron, Dave |
| Week 10 Mar. 13, 15 |
Proposal Presentations (Thursday) Thursday, Peter Katie Sarah and Tim Doug and Kellee Art and Jessica Jenna Michael Robert Kevin Brian Dave |
Project ideas and inspirations...
Some examples from the archive
Grading:
Labs, Topic Assignments, Proposal Etc.: 90%
Attendance and participation: 10%
*NO FINAL DURING FINALS WEEK