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GTECH 361

GTECH 361. Introduction to GIScience. Contact Information. Instructor: Jochen Albrecht Office: Hunter N1030 Office hours: We, Th 2-3 PM E-Mail: jochen@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: (212) 772-5221 TA: Pyung Ho Kim E-Mail: phkim@hunter.cuny.edu. Course Overview.

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GTECH 361

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  1. GTECH 361 Introduction toGIScience

  2. Contact Information Instructor: Jochen Albrecht Office: Hunter N1030 Office hours: We, Th 2-3 PM E-Mail: jochen@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: (212) 772-5221 TA: Pyung Ho Kim E-Mail: phkim@hunter.cuny.edu

  3. Course Overview • GIScience is a lofty goal for this course • Principles/fundamentals of GIS is a more realistic goal • Theory and practice • GIS as a process • Becoming a well-versed user of any GIS

  4. Relationship to GTECH 201 • Revision of course contents of undergraduate offerings • One-time slight overlap with Fall 04 GTECH 201 • New software (ArcGIS 9)

  5. Texts • Required: none • Recommended (choice of) • Burke et al 2004. Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop (updated for ArcGIS 9). ESRI Press (but a lot cheaper from Amazon). • Burrough, P and R McDonnell 1998. Principles of GIS. Oxford: Oxford University Press . • deMers, Michael 2004. Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems. New York: Wiley. • Worboys, M and M Duckham 2004. GIS: a computing perspective. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

  6. Policies • Attendance • Plagiarism • Special accommodations • Lab policies • Assignments

  7. Criteria for Evaluation • 10 Quizzes 20% • 14 Lab exercises 50% • Midterm exam 15% • Final exam 15% • Hunter undergraduate grading scheme according to percentage of points accumulated over the semester.

  8. Schedule Class # Date Topic 1 01/28 GIScience and GIStudies 2 02/01 Storing geographic information L1 02/04 Lab 1: Getting started with ArcGIS 3 02/08 Geographic data sources L2 02/15 Lab 2: Creating map symbology 4 02/18 Cartographic communication and geospatial visualization L3 02/22 Lab 3: Referencing data to real locations 5 02/25 Datums, projections, and coordinate systems L4 03/01 Lab 4: Organizing geographic data 6 03/04 Basic spatial queries L5 03/08 Lab 5: Creating and editing data 7 03/11 Secondary data L6 03/15 Lab 6: Exploring the geodatabases model 8 03/18 Midterm Exam

  9. Schedule Class # Date Topic L7 03/22 Lab 7: Creating a geodatabases 9 03/24 Advanced spatial queries L8 04/01 Lab 8: Creating and editing features in a geodatabases 10 04/05 The third dimension L9 04/08 Lab 9: Adding behavior to a geodatabase 11 04/12 Raster GIS and map algeba L10 04/15 Lab 10: Getting started with GIS analysis 12 04/19 Spatial statistics and data quality L11 04/22 Lab 11: Geoprocessing and Modeling 13 05/03 GIS and society: social, legal, economic and organizational aspects L12 05/06 Lab 12: Designing maps with ArcGIS 14 05/10 Review and final exam preparation L13 05/13 Lab 13: Working with Labels L14 05/17 Lab 14: Working with Annotation 05/19 - 05/22 Final (online) Exam

  10. Course Web Site • www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/~jochen/GTECH361 • Lecture PowerPoint slides • Lab exercise instructions • Lab exercise datasets

  11. GIScience vs. GIStudies • GISystems (GIS) • Emphasis on technology and tools • GIScience (GISci) • Fundamental issues raised by the use of GIS and related technologies (e.g.) • Spatial analysis • Map projections • GIStudies (GISt) • Systematic study of the use of geographic information • Accuracy • Scientific visualization

  12. GIS as an Approach to Science • Geographic Information Science is research both on and with GIS. “the generic issues that surround the use of GIS technology, impede its successful implementation, or emerge from an understanding of its potential capabilities.” (Goodchild, 1992)

  13. The Science Behind • In the U.S.: geography, UCGIS • to GIS as statistics is to the statistical packages • The science behind the systems • Fundamental issues arising from use • The science that is done with the technology • Systematic study of geographic information using scientific methods

  14. A New Discipline • Symptoms of a science • journals, terms, books, conferences, departments, heroes, cultural artifacts • grand challenges • What would we say to Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking? • “As young man, my fondest dream was to become a geographer. However, while working in the customs office I thought deeply about the matter and concluded that it was far too difficult a subject. With some reluctance, I then turned to physics as a substitute.”

  15. Contributing Disciplines • Geography • Remote Sensing • Surveying • Statistics • Computer Science • Information Science • Cartography • Photogrammetry • Geodesy • Operations Research • Mathematics • Management Science

  16. Major Journals/Magazines • International Journal of Geographical Information Science • Cartography and Geographic Information Science • Geographical Systems • Transactions in GIS • Geo Info Systems • GEOWorld (formerly GISWorld)

  17. Specialty Journals • Business Geographics • GIS Law • Mapping Awareness • GrassClippings • Arc User • Intergraph News • GIS Asia/Pacific • GIS World Report/CANADA • GIS Europe

  18. Regular GISci Scholarly Papers • Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing • Annals of the Association of American Geographers • Cartographica • Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems • Computers and Geosciences • IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Applications

  19. Occasional GISci Scholarly Papers • International Journal of Remote Sensing • Landscape Ecology • Cartographic Perspectives • Cartographica • Journal of Cartography • Geocarto International • IEEE Geosciences • Remote Sensing Review • Mapping Science and Remote Sensing • Infoworld

  20. Professional Organizations • AAG: The Association of American Geographers. • GITA: Geospatial Information & Technology Assoc. (formerly AM/FM) • URISA: Urban and Regional InformationSystems Association. • ACSM: American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. • ASPRS: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. • UCGIS: University Consortium for Geographic Information Science

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