Introductory GIS

Required Readings, Fall 2009

If the paper cannot be found in your photocopied packet, they can be found online (title search usually required) at:

• Measure and Map: direct link to the Middle Earth paper.
• GeoSpatial Solutions
• ArcUser
• Elevation Magazine article re Hydrologically enhanced DEMs
• Geo User Magazine. Papers found in either the archives (under "News" of all things) or Digital Issues (newer articles). Best way is to simply goto the issue rather than search for an article. Note, this site also contains Geo World articles.

If possible, please read online and don't print - one of my objectives is to save photocopying/printing costs - AND let you view the images in color!

1. Intro to GIS application (due 2 October, 2009)

• The World on your desktop. The Economist. 6 Sept, 2007. In readings subdirectory.
• Mapping Opportunities. Nature. Jan 2004. In readings subdirectory.
• Global Change – Revealing Humanity’s Impact on Earth. Earth Imaging Journal. May/June 2006: http://www.eijournal.com/Global_Change.asp
• GIS and the Deadliest catch. May 2009. GeoWorld

2. Environmental GIS (due 9 October, 2009)

• There's Gold in them Hills. June 2009. GeoWorld.

• GIS and the Deadliest catch. May 2009. GeoWorld

• GIS for the New West. Arc User. Oct-dec, 2005

• Ancient Impact: GPS and seismic profiling map hidden crater. Geo User. April 2007

3. Social GIS (due 16 October 2009)

• The Surveilance Society: Returning the Gaze. Geo User. July 2007
• A Model of cooperation. Earth Imaging Journal. July-Aug, 2007. pdf file found in J:\303_403\papers\ subdirectory.
• A Year-Round Job: Elections, geography, and GIS. ArcUser. Oct-Dec 2007. http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/1207/umbrella_41.htm
• Mapping your votes. November 2008. GeoWorld

4. Data (due 23 October 2009)

• Unlock world resources with ArcGIS. ArcUser, April-June 2001.
• Datums: Who needs 'em anyway? ArcUser, April-June 2001.
• Hydrologically enhanced, high-resolution DEMs. Elevation Magazine. April 2002 (direct link at top of page)
• The "G" in GIS. GeoWorld. December 2008

5. Environmental modelling (due 30 October 2009)

• LIDAR for Mapping and GIS. Earth Imaging Journal. Jan/Feb 2006: http://www.eijournal.com/LiDar_Mapping.asp
• GIS Estimates Composite Home Ranges for Loggerhead Sea Turtles. ArcUser. Jan-Mar 2006. http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0206/seaturtles.html
• We built this 3-d city GIS. May 2009. GeoWorld
• A Coastal Campus prepares for growth. GeoWorld. April 2009

6. GIS/GPS/RS integration (due 6 November, 2009)

• The catch of the day: DGPS goes fishing for Australian crays. GPS World, July 1996
• GPS-equipped dogs go to the rescue. GIS World, March 1997.
• Remote sensing and archaeology.. Earth Imaging Journal. march-april, 2007. pdf file found in J:\303_403\papers\ subdirectory.
• The Surveilance Society: Returning the Gaze. Geo User. July 2007

7. Dealing with questionable software/data (due 13 November, 2009)

• Assessing the impacts of sea-level rise in Vietnam. Geo Info Systems. January 1997.
• The effect of slope algorithms on slope estimates within a GIS. Cartography. June 1998.
• The long and short of slope. Geo User. July 2007
• Oregon erosion modelling paper. In readings subdirectory.

8. Natural Resources/Misc (due 20 November, 2009)

• Surveying in Middle Earth. Measure and Map, May/June 2002.
• Reaching back through time. May 2007. Geo User
• Boosting Fieldwork Productivity with Photomaps. ArcUser. July-Sept 2007
• The integration of GIS, remote sensing, expert systems and adaptive co-kriging for environmental habitat modeling of the Highland Haggis using object-oriented, Fuzzy-Logic and neural-Network techniques. Computers and Geosciences, v. 22, no. 5. 1996.

9. More Misc. (Due 4 December, 2009)

• Online Maps: Everyman Offers New Directions: NY Times. 16 November, 2009. In readings subdirectory on J drive.
• Shifting Shorelines: Modeling the 20,000-year history of the Great Lakes. Arc User, summer 2009. Either online or in the readings subdirectory on the J drive.
• Navigating Canada's Largest Cemetary. ArcUser. Summer 2009. Either online or in the reading subdirectory on the J drive.
• The digital deluge: flood map..... GeoWorld. November 2009.

Writeup format

For EACH paper, do the following:
1. Outline the paper (in outline format)
2. Summarise the main points of the article (at least one paragraph, depending on the complexity of the paper) and how the info in the article might relate to other papers, lectures, other readings, your own experience, etc… In other words, show that you have thought about the article, not just rehashed the last paragraph or two.

When grading outlines, I ask the question 'did the student read the paper.'

When grading summaries, I ask the question 'did the student think about the paper.' In short, if all the information in the summary is in the paper, I cannot give full credit.

Note: to be accepted, the writeups MUST be typed. They are due by 5:00 on the due date (in my mailbox). Late writeups will NOT be accepted.

Grading: Each set of readings will be worth 1% of your final grade.

Also note: information pulled from the readings will be on the midterm and final exams