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Geography
476
Environmental
Applications of GIS
Instructor: Dr. Tom Frank
Department of Geography
Director, Spatial Data Analysis Lab
Phone: 244-9028
Office: 216
This is an introductory
course for students without previous GIS experience. The objective of this
course is to emphasize the structure of the geo-database model, and
applications software to build, analyze and map spatial patterns of an environmental
nature. You will be led through approximately 9 weeks of prepared lab
assignments to teach you how to create and analyze environmental spatial data.
These assignments will cover both environmental and physical geography
applications. You will create a PowerPoint presentation for each of these lab
assignments. The remainder of the course will be devoted to individual student
projects. The projects require you to identify an environmental problem
addressable within a GIS framework, to build the spatial and relational
database, and to perform spatial analysis and create maps of the projects
results. The project is to be presented as either a PowerPoint presentation or
a web-based design. Again, no previous experience with the software is
required. Environmental Applications of GIS has an Inquiry Learning
format, focused on student-centered exploration, building on your natural
interests. Inquiry Learning allows students to discover course goals and
objectives through their own exploration of environmental problems with lab
assignments rather than exams.
Lectures and Lab Assignments
NO CLASS on
Thursday October 8th and Tuesday October 13th.
What is Geographic Information
the National Atlas data server
Introduction to ArcGIS software family
Catastrophic Events
Import ArcInfo
Export Coverages into ArcGIS
(ArcToolBox)
Relational Database Query
Spatial Selection Query
Expressions
Dissolving hierarchical
features
Geocoding
Best route through a network
Network Service Areas
Map Projections and Coordinate
Systems
Spherical Coordinate Systems
Map Projections
Projected coordinate Systems
UTM coordinate system
Spheroids and Datums
Projection definition and
re-projecting in ArcGIS
Watershed hydrology and
Analysis
The
Buffers
Map Overlays
Raster Data Structures
Digital Elevation Models
Digital Terrain Analysis -
slope and aspect mapping
ArcScene for 3 dimensional mapping
Individual Student Project Requirements
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