CS 128/ES 228 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

Spring 2007

An index page for various class resources

last modified 04/25/2007

Syllabus

Quizzes

• Quiz #1, Thursday, February 1
• Quiz #2, Thursday, February 22
• Quiz #3, Tuesday, April 10
• Quiz #4, Thursday, April 26

Readings

• 1/17  Heywood, pp. 3-13

Labs

• Lab 14 - GPS - Error Analysis
• Lab 13 - Beginning Spatial Analysis
• Collected Data from Labs 11 and 12
• Lab 12 - Surveying the Old Fashioned Way
• Lab 11 - Surveying with GPS
• Lab 10 - Reports
• Lab 9 - Geocoding (and Poor Man's Routing)
• Lab 8 - Map Layout and Publishing
• Lab 7 - No write-up; teams work on their projects
• Lab 6 - Attribute Data
• Lab 5 - Vectors
• Lab 4 - Rasters
• Lab 3 - Projections and Coordinate Systems
• Lab 2 - Layers
• Lab 1 - Getting Started 

Project

• General Project Description
• Team Rosters

Lecture Presentations

• 4/26/07, Maps and GIS's on the Net
• 4/24/07, Errors and Data Quality Managment
• 4/19/07, Case Study: Landslides  (Note: this presentation is in draft form and may change by tomorrow morning)
• 4/17/07, Surface Analysis
• 4/12/07, Spatial Analysis II
• 4/10/07, Spatial Analysis I
• 4/3/07, The Global Positioning System
• 3/29/07, Geospatial Attribute Data
• 3/27/07, Remote Sensing
• 3/22/07, Paper Maps and Aerial Photos
• 3/20/07, Geocoding and Routing
• 3/15/07, Vector Data Sources
• 3/13/07, Map Formats
• 2/22/07, Data Storage
• 2/20/07, Attribute Data (and topology)
• 2/15/07, Vector Format
• 2/13/07, Working With Rasters
• 2/8/07, BONUS - What Is a Map's Dimension
• 2/8/07, Spatial Data Formats
• 2/6/07, BONUS - Garmin Ad
• 2/6/07, Spatial Models
• 2/1/07, Coordinate Systems
• 1/30/07, Projections
• 1/25/07, Map Types (and Attribute Data)
• 1/23/07, What is a Map?
• 1/18/07, Early GIS
• 1/16/07, What is GIS?

Useful Links (OLD - These are in the process of being rechecked)

• Community GIS (links to web-based GIS systems in Cattaraugus County - shown in class)
• New York State GIS resources
• Magnetic North Pole info (mentioned in class 2/1/07)
• Coordinate Systems Page (mentioned in class 2/1/07)

            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)