CS 128/ES 228 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

An index page for various class resources

last modified 06/06/2003

Syllabus

Quizzes

• Quiz #4, Apr. 24
• Quiz #3, Apr. 3
• Quiz #2 Reprise, Mar. 13
• Quiz #2, Feb. 20
• Quiz #1, Jan. 30

Readings

•   2/27  A Case Study to view over break
•   2/18  Heywood, pp. 66-81
•   2/11  Heywood, pp. 50-55
•   2/6    Heywood, pp. 46-50
•   2/4    Heywood, pp. 42-46
•   1/21  Heywood, pp. 19-40
•   1/14  Heywood, pp. 3-18, 163-176

Labs

• Lab 12 - Surveying and Leveling: Mapping the Old Fashioned Way
• Lab 11 - GPS: Adding Features to the Campus GIS
• Lab 10 - GPS and Error Analysis
• Lab 9 - A HodgePodge
• Lab 8 - Beginning Spatial Analysis
• Lab 7 - Map Layout and Publishing
• Lab 6 - Attribute data
• Lab 5 - Database Systems
• Lab 4 - Vectors
• Lab 3b - Raster Format
• Lab 3a - Coordinate Systems
• Lab 2 - Layers  
• Lab 1 - Getting Started 

Homework

• Assignment #2 - A Route Planning GIS, now linked!
• Assignment #1 - Pfeiffer Nature Center, due 2/28/03

Lecture Presentations

• WebMaps (PowerPoint presentation given in class 4/24/03)
• Spatial Analysis Case Study (PowerPoint presentation given in class 4/15/03)
• Errors (PowerPoint presentation given in class 4/10/03)
• Surface Analysis (PowerPoint presentation given in class 4/8/03)
• 3D Spatial Analysis (PowerPoint presentation given in class 4/3/03)
• 2D Spatial Analysis (PowerPoint presentation given in class 4/1/03)
• GPS (PowerPoint presentation  given in class 3/27/03)
• Surveying (PowerPoint presentation given in class 3/25/03)
• Photogrammetry (PowerPoint presentation given in class 3/20/03)
• Remote Sensing (PowerPoint presentation given in class on 3/18/03)
• File Formats (PowerPoint presentation given in class on 2/27/03)
• More Digital Data Sources (PowerPoint presentation given in class on 2/25/03)
• Digital Data Sources (PowerPoint presentation given in class on 2/20/03)
• Attribute Data (PowerPoint presentation given in class on 2/18/03)
• Vector Formats (A post-facto approximation of a PowerPoint presentation given in class on 2/13/03)  
• Raster Formats II (PowerPoint presentation given in class on 2/11/03)
• Raster Formats (PowerPoint presentation given in class on 2/6/03)
• Spatial Models (PowerPoint presentation given in class on 2/4/03)
• Map Interpretation (PowerPoint presentation given in class on 1/30/03)
• Map Types (PowerPoint presentation given in class on 1/28/02)
• Projections (PowerPoint presentation given in class on 1/23/02)
• What Is A Map? (PowerPoint presentation given in class on 1/21/03)
• Design With Nature (PowerPoint presentation given in class on 1/16/03)

Useful Links (as discussed in class or lab)

• Community GIS (links to web-based GIS systems in Cattaraugus County - shown in class on 1/14/03)
• New York State GIS resources
• Magnetic North Pole info (mentioned in class 1/30/03)

            Government pages

• National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
• U.S. Bureau of Census, Geography home page
• U.S.G.S. National Mapping Information page
• Summary of map products available from U.S.G.S.
• U.S.G.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

            Remote Sensing Data Sources

• NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) program
• Earth Resources Observatory Systems (EROS) Data Center (U.S.G.S.)
• Satellite Probatoire pour L’Observation de la Terre (SPOT)

            Academic pages

• National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis
• University of Minnesota’s Environmental Resources Spatial Analysis Center

            Commercial pages

• ESRI
• The GIS Portal! (Harvard Design and Mapping Company)
• GIS World (Adams Business Media)