Week

Topic

Reading/Lab Assigned

Week 1

Jan 12

Intro to class, Overview of spatial analysis concepts, model building

(Longley and Batty, 2003) foreword and ch 1

Lab 1 Geoprocessing and model builder

Data for lab 1

ESRI on-line training course assignment

Week 2

Jan 19

MLK no classes

Week 3

Jan 26

Advanced suitability modeling with fuzzy membership functions

(Eastman, et. al. 1995), (Yoon, 1989), (Veregin, 1995)

Data for lab 2 , equations for raster calculator

Week 4

Feb 2

Preference weighting techniques for suitability studies

(Ascough et al. 2001), (Strager and Rosenberger, 2006)

Lab 3 Criteria weighting, class group results for question 3

Data for lab 3

Week 5

Feb 9

Spatial compromise programming

(Strager and Rosenberger, 2007), (Vitalis and Manoliadis, 2002),  (Prodanovic and  Simonovic, 2003)

Lab 4 Compromise programming , Ranking toolbar for ArcGIS ext

Data for lab 4
 

Week 6

Feb 16

Weights of evidence, Bayes theorem posterior probability modeling

(Agterberg, et al. 1993), (Boleneus, et al. 2001), (Bonham-Carter papers 1, 2, 3), (Arc-WofE.pdf ), (Aspinall, 1992)

review help for Lab4

Week 7

Feb 23

Weights of evidence - continued

Lab 5 Weights of Evidence, ArcSDM AV3 files

Data for lab 5

Week 8 Mar 2 (Mon)

(Anselin, et al. 1993), (ch 13 Spatial Analysis)

Lab 6 Spatial statistics I

Week 8

Mar 4 (Wed 4-6pm in 317 Percival)

Spatial statistics II - analyzing patterns and III - geographic relationships

(Field data stats manual)

Hawth's Tools for ArcGIS
Lab 7 Spatial statistics II

data for lab7, excel template, K-S critical values

(Ganio, et al. 2005), notes for student papers

Week 9

Mar 9

No class

Week 10

Mar 16

SPRING BREAK WEEK

Week 11

Mar 23

Spatial statistics IV - Geostatistics

(Sheehan and Welsch, 2009), (Zawadzki, 2005), (Reed and Burkhart, 1985) , website of papers

Lab 8 Spatial statistics IV

Data for lab 8

Week 12 Mar 30 - Class Cancelled

(class rescheduled for Wed April 1st in 317 Percival at 3 to 5pm)

Review and summary of spatial statistics, regression with spatial stats - Quiz

Advanced water quality analysis with GIS

(Allan, 2004), (Tarboton, 1, 2)

Lab 9 Watershed basics - Data for basics lab (updated)

hydro toolbar

Lab 10 Adv watershed analysis - Data for advanced lab (updated)

WCMS

watershed data for lab

Week 13

Apr 6

Landscape metrics and analysis methods, Animal movement analysis , Bird community index, Ecological Land units

(McGarigal, 2002), (Animal tracking GPS), (Moorcroft, 1999), (Stricker, 2004), (Wade, et al. 2003) (Kie, et al. 2005)

Data for lab 11

Week 14

Apr 13

(Phillips et al, 2006), (Pearson), (Elith et al, 2006), (Dudik et al, 2007), ArcMap tips Lab 13 Maxent tutorial data, Development model data

Week 15

Apr 20

Classification and regression trees with GIS, Class summary and paper format info

(Guisan and Zimmerman, 2000), (Barker, 2006), (Detmers, 1999), (Etten, 1998), (Martens, 2001), (Graef, 2001), (Vayssieres, 2000)

StatMod avx file

Week 16

Apr 27

Final paper notes and class summary info

 Short paper presentations to class

Week 17

Finals Week

FINAL PAPER DUE email pdf to mstrager@wvu.edu by 5pm Wed May 6th