CS 128/ES 228 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

Spring 2009

An index page for various class resources

last modified 08/29/2009

Syllabus

Announcements

• 1/23/2009    After securing permission from the powers that be, our time for lab has officially been moved to Th 2:30-5:20; the room remains PL 103.  Dr. Levine's Thursday office hours are now 1:30-2:30 instead of 4-5.

Quizzes

• Quiz #1, Thursday, February 5
• Quiz #2, Thursday, February 26
• Quiz #3, Tuesday, April 7
• Quiz #4, Thursday, April 30

Readings

• 2/5    Heywood, pp. 46-51
• 2/3    Heywood, pp. 44-46
• 1/29  Heywood, Box 8.1 (pp. 258-260)
• 1/27  Heywood, pp. 32-43
• 1/22  Heywood, pp. 19-28, 377-385
• 1/20  Heywood, pp. 3-19

Labs

• Labs 11 & 12 - Data Set
• Lab 10 - Project Prep
• Lab 9 - Geocoding & Poor Man's Routing
• Lab 8 - Report Generation
• Lab 7 - Attribute Data
• Lab 6 - Map Layout and Publishing
• Lab 5 - Exploring Vector Data
• Lab 4 - Exploring Raster Data
• Lab 3 - You Are Now Free to Move About the Country (and CountrySide)
• Lab 2 - Layers
• Lab 1 - Getting Started 

Project

• General Project Description 

Lecture Presentations

• 5/5/09,   Maps & GIS's on the Net (2.5 MB)
• 4/28/09, Errors, (5 MB)
• 4/23/09, Landslide Analysis in West Virginia, (1 MB)
• 4/21/09, Surface Generation and Analysis, (3 MB)
• 4/16/09, Spatial Analysis II, (1 MB)
• 4/14/09, Spatial Analysis I, (1 MB)
• 4/7/09,   GPS (5 MB)
• 4/2/09,   Remote Sensing (9 MB)
• 3/31/09, Paper Maps and Aerial Photos, (8 MB)
• 3/26/09, Geocoding and Routing, (1 MB)
• 3/24/09, Vector Data Sources, (4 MB)
• 3/19/09, Displaying Geospatial Attribute Data, (2.5 MB)
• 3/12/09, Wind Cave Info (1 MB)
• 3/10/09, Data Storage, (1.3 MB - but with a "kicker")
• 2/26/09, Map Formats, (18 MB)
• 2/24/09, Attribute Data and Databases, (0.5 MB)
• 2/19/09, Vector Formats (2.5 MB)
• 2/17/09, Raster Formats (9 MB)
• 2/12/09, Spatial Data Formats (7 MB)
• 2/10/09, Spatial Models (19MB)
• 2/5/09, Coordinate Systems (6 MB)
• 2/3/09, Projections (8 MB)
• 1/29/09, Map Types, (4 MB)
• 1/27/09, What is a map? (4 MB)
• 1/22/09, Early GIS (6 MB)
• 1/20/09, What is GIS?  (2 MB)

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
• 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)  (link problem?)
• GIS World (Adams Business Media)