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Geographic Information Systems GEO506, Fall 2013 Tu Th 5:00-6:20pm, 145H Wilkeson

Geographic Information Systems GEO506, Fall 2013 Tu Th 5:00-6:20pm, 145H Wilkeson The course is offered three times a year. Instructor Ling Bian , 120 Wilkeson Office Hours Tu Th 4-5pm or by appts. Lab Wilkeson 145 LabA Thur : 3:30-4:50pm LabB Tue: 12:30-1:50pm TA: Tong Sun

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Geographic Information Systems GEO506, Fall 2013 Tu Th 5:00-6:20pm, 145H Wilkeson

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  1. Geographic Information Systems GEO506, Fall 2013 TuTh 5:00-6:20pm, 145H Wilkeson The course is offered three times a year

  2. Instructor Ling Bian, 120 Wilkeson Office Hours TuTh 4-5pm or by appts

  3. Lab Wilkeson 145 LabAThur: 3:30-4:50pm LabB Tue: 12:30-1:50pm TA: Tong Sun No lab in the first week No lab in the first week No lab in the first week

  4. Access to Wilkeson GIAL computer account printing account See Joe if there are still problems

  5. Purpose There is a spatial component to all activities on the planet. Everything happens somewhere and knowing why and how these things happen at where and how these things are related to each other are important for us to fully understand the spatial phenomena. This course provides a general introduction to geographic information systems that help study these spatial phenomena. The goal of the course is to help students understand principles,application, and techniques of geographic information systems (GIS).

  6. This is the introductory course of a series of GIS courses offered in the Geography Department. The lecture is divided in four sections. The first section introduces basics of a GIS system. The second section discusses GIS Data and their sources. The third section focuses on GIS functions in order to extract spatial information from geographic data. The fourth section covers GIS applications. GIS is useful to virtually any discipline that uses geographic information. The course should benefit students from a wide range of background.

  7. Labs A series of laboratory exercises are designed to help students familiarize with basic GIS operations. ArcGIS will be used as the primary software. Digital data of various themes will be used for the lab exercises. Students will gain experience with the following techniques: manipulating GIS data, querying spatial and attribute data, spatial join, projection, GPS, geocoding, 3D view, analysis, and online mapping applications.

  8. Text Lo, C.P. and Yeung, A. K.W. 2002, 2007 Concepts and Techniques of Geographic Information Systems. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

  9. Project Proposal Graduate students are expected to develop a proposal for a project that uses GIS and present the proposed idea at the end of semester.

  10. Grading System      Graduate Mid-term exam 30% Final exam           30%           Lab exercises 30% Project Proposal 10% Total 100% You will earn two identical grades for the lecture and the lab. The exams will be mostly based on lectures

  11. Grad cut-off A 93.33-100.0 A- 90.00-93.32   B+ 86.67-89.99 B 83.33-86.66 B- 80.00-83.32 C+ 76.67-79.99 C 73.33-76.66 C- 70.00-73.32 D+ 66.67-69.99 D 60.00-66.66 F <60

  12. Tentative Schedule I. GIS System Aug 27 Course introduction        29   Definition of GIS Sep 3   Coordinate systems                  10   Data models and data structures         12   Databases

  13. Tentative Schedule (2) II. GIS Data Sep 17  Remote Sensing         19  GPS          24  Digital elevation models         26  American Community Survey        Oct  1  Natural resources data 3 Data Quality         8   Visualization 10MidTerm Exam

  14. Tentative Schedule (3) III. GIS Analysis Oct 15 GIS analysis and modeling 17 GIS analysis and modeling 22 GIS analysis and modeling 24 GIS software 29 GIS programming 31 Web GIS Nov 5 Cloud GIS 7 Open source GIS

  15. Tentative Schedule (4) IV. GIS Applications Nov 12 GIS applications 14 GIS applications 19 “ 21 “ 26 “ Dec 3 “ 5 Conclusions Final Exam: Dec 10 (Tue) 7:15-10:15pm, 170 Fillmore (not a comprehensive exam, no multiple choices)

  16. Plagiarism What is plagiarism and how to avoid it: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/guides/plagiarism.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/01/german-defence-minister-resigns-plagiarism

  17. Expectation After this course, you should be comfortable to be a good GIS intern.

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