Week

Date

Topic

Readings / Downloads

1

Mon Aug 22

Class syllabus

Wed Aug 24

Intro to GIS: Location matters

Bolstad, Chapter 1 (PDF, or on reserve)
ESRI:  Geography Matters (PDF)

Goodchild (2000) Current status… (PDF)
Mitchell, Chapter 1 (on reserve)

Thur/Fri Aug 25-26

Exercise 1. Introduction to ArcGIS 9

2

Mon Aug 29

Spatial data formats, storing data

Bolstad, Chapter 2 (on reserve)

Wed Aug 31

Map scale, map projections

USGS (2002) Map Scales fact sheet (PDF)
USGS (2000) Projections poster - skim this (PDF)

Bolstad, Chapter 3 (PDF, on reserve)
USGS UTM fact sheet (PDF)

Thur/Fri Sept 1-2

Exercise 2.  Using spatial datasets, projections

Exercise 1 (part B) due at start of lab

3

Mon Sept 5

NO CLASS

LABOR DAY

Wed Sept 7

Mapping accuracy, errors, documentation

Goodchild (1998) Uncertainty… (PDF)
FGDC (2005) Geospatial Metadata fact sheet (PDF)

FGDC (2006) Geospatial metadata (online)
USGS (2007) Metadata in plain language (online)

Thur/Fri Sept 8-9

Exercise 3.  Map queries, attribute tables

Exercise 2 (part B) due at start of lab

Please click to save & download required data file (Data_Exercise3.exe), then run to extract data for exercise 3.

NOTE: If exe will not work, download zip file instead, save in /gisdata/ folder and unzip.

4

Mon Sept 12

Spatial data resources, Internet data sources

Homer et al. (2007) Completion of the NLCD (PDF)
USGS (2002) National Map – Hydrography (PDF)
USGS (2002) National Map – Elevation (PDF)
Bolstad, Chapter 7 (on reserve)

Wed Sept 13

Cartographic design

Brewer (2006) Basic mapping principles… (PDF)

Kraak (2002) Current trends… (PDF)
MacEachren (1995) How Maps Work (book)
MacEachren (1994) Some Truth with Maps (book)
Monmonier (1996) How to Lie with Maps (book)
Harvard GSD (n.d.) Elements of Cartographic Style (online)

Thur/Fri Sept 15-16

Exercise 4.  Cartography, presenting data

Exercise 3 (part B) due at start of lab

5

Mon Sept 19

Vector spatial analysis (1)

Bolstad, Chapter 9 (on reserve)
Mitchell, Chapter 5 (on reserve)
Mitchell, Chapter 6 (on reserve)
Geospatial Analysis: Comprehensive guide (online)

Wed Sept 21

Vector spatial analysis (2)

Thur/Fri Sept 22-23

Exercise 5.  Spatial analysis, geoprocessing

Exercise 4 (part B) due at start of lab

Required file for lab: NationalAtlasLandslide.zip

6

Mon Sept 26

TEST REVIEW

Wed Sept 28

Imagery and its use in GIS

USGS (2007) National Map – Orthoimagery (PDF)
Green (1992) Spatial imagery and GIS (PDF)

Bolstad, Chapter 6 (on reserve)

Thur/Fri Sept 29-30

TEST 1

7

Mon Oct 3

Creating and editing spatial data

Bolstad, Chapter 4 (on reserve)

Wed Oct 5

Introduction to raster data

Thur/Fri Oct 6-7

Exercise 6.  Using imagery, digitizing, Internet data resources

File required for today's lab (right click on file and save to your computer):

MorgantownPointLocations.txt

Exercise 5 (part B) due at start of lab

8

Mon Oct 10

Raster spatial analysis

Bolstad, Chapter 10 (on reserve)

Wed Oct 12

Terrain analysis

(Continued from Monday)

Bolstad, Chapter 11 (on reserve)

Thur/Fri Oct 13-14

Exercise 7. Raster analysis

Exercise 6 (part B) due at start of lab

Final exercise handed out

9

Mon Oct 17

Models in GIS

Goodchild (2005) GIS and modeling overview (PDF)

Bolstad, Chapter 12 (on reserve)
Bolstad, Chapter 13 (on reserve)

Wed Oct 19

Suitability modeling

Collins et al (2001) Land use suitability … (PDF)

Thur/Fri Oct 20-21

Review: Work on your final project

Exercise 7 (part B) due at start of lab

10

Mon Oct 24

Visualization, 3D analysis, review for test

Test review slides

Sample GIS questions for Final

(Movies)

Bolstad, Chapter 15 (on reserve)

Wed Oct 26

Internet mapping, GIS frontiers, class summary and evaluations

Thur/Fri Oct 27-28

FINAL EXAM

Final project report due Monday Oct 31st in Room 2010 Ag Science (J Strager's office)