Advanced Geographic Information Systems

Course Syllabus

Fall 2006

 

Instructor: Professor  J. Hasse

e-mail:                     hasse@rowan.edu (preferred method of communication)

phone:                    856.256.4500 ext. 3977

office:                     Geography & Anthropology Department
3rd floor Robinson Hall

office hours:          Mondays 12:30-1:30 p.m. & Wednesday 5-6 p.m. or by arrangement

course web page  http://users.rowan.edu/~hasse/GIS2_f06/

 

 

MIDTERM EXAM click here for an electronic version of the midterm exam

 

Course Objectives: 

 

  • Data, data, and more stuff about data.
    • What is geospatial data?
    • Where does data come from?
    • How does one create data?
    • How to organize, manage and manipulate data?
    • How to document data?
  • Get familiar with data commonly used in New Jersey.
  • Geoprocessing – how to manipulated data to achieve new information
  • Advance Analysis with ArcMap
  • Learn how to propose, develop, organize, research, operationalize, analyze and present a GIS-based project.
  • Develop public presentation skills/ confidence in presenting spatial information
  • YOUR OBJECTIVES HERE

 

Required Text: Geographic Information Systems and Science, Paul Longley, Michael Goodchild, David Maguire, David Rhind,  2001 John Wiley & Sons, New York

 

 

Grading:

10 exercises / labs

30%

 

Data Source Presentation

5%

 

Midterm Exam

25%

 

Final Project

30%

 

Participation

10%

 

Semester Schedule

WK

DATE

TOPIC/DISSCUSSION

READING

Assignment

DUE

1

9/6

Course Intro

 

Exercise #1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

9/13

Overview and discussion of GI Systems and Science

Ch 1 & 2

lecture2

Exercise #2

Ex2_data

Exercise #1

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 9/20

Representing Geography, Geo-referencing, Mapping, Spatial data

Ch 3 & 4

lecture3

Exercise #3

 

Exercise #2

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

9/27

Geographic Data, Uncertainty, Generalization, Metadata

Ch 5, 6 & 7

lecture4

Exercise #4

 

Exercise #3

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

10/4

Digital Models for Geographic Data: Raster, Vector, Object-oriented, Geodataset, Topology

Ch 9 and lecture5

 

Exercise #5

Ex5_data

Exercise #4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

10/11

Data Input: Remote Sensing, GPS, CAD-coversion, Data transformations, 

Ch 10

lecture6

Exercise #6

data on O drive

Exercise #5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

10/18

Data Capture: Tablet & Heads-up digitizing,

Database structure

Ch 10 & 11

lecture7

Exercise #7

Ex7_data[7Meg]

Exercise #6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

10/25

NO CLASS - CONFERENCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

11/1

Data Manipulation & Analysis: Geoprocessing, and Data Analysis

Ch 13, 14

lecture8

Exercise #8

data on O drive

Exercise #7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

11/8

EXAM (includes chapters 1-10 and class notes)

 

 Exercise #9

data on O drive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

11/15

NO CLASS - CONFERENCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12

11/22

Developing a Project: GIS in action

Exercise #10

 Exercise #9

 

 

 

 

 

 

13

11/29

Selected discussion

 

 

Exercise #10

 

 

 

 

 

 

14

12/6

Selected discussion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15

12/13

Selected discussion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FINAL

EXAM

PERIOD

TBA

Project Presentation & Report Due