Advanced GIS

Required Readings, Spring 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. Just head off to the archives. Under "news" Must register first, I think.

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!

Also note, there are occasional font issues for some articles. In short, you see gibberish. This is because the font the website uses is not loaded on your computer. Simple solution - select the text, copy, paste into Word, change the font to something 'regular' [I like Times New Roman], and then read the puppy.

1. Intro to GIS application (due 10 April)

• Google sparks search wars. Geospatial Solutions. October 2005
• The World on your desktop. The Economist. 6 Sept, 2007. In readings subdirectory.
• Remote sensing, GIS, and a Taxing Dilemma. Geospatial Solutions. April 2003.
• Mapping Opportunities. Nature. Jan 2004. In readings subdirectory.

2. Environmental GIS (due 17 April)

• Mapping Shuttle Launch Clouds at KSC. Geospatial Solutions. November, 2002
• Soil, Water, and Manure: a conservation district wades into GIS. Geospatial Solutions, May 2002.
• Protecting Elk Country. Geospatial Solutions. October 2004
• California Burning. Geospatial Solutions. March 2004.
• GIS Estimates Composite Home Ranges for Loggerhead Sea Turtles. ArcUser. Jan-Mar 2006. http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0206/seaturtles.html

3. Social GIS (due 24 April)

• Spatial Intelligence and Iraqi Freedom. Geospatial Solutions. May 2003
• GIS for the New West. Arc User. Oct-dec, 2005
• Remote Sensing and archaeology. Earth Imaging Journal. March/April, 2007. In readings subdirectory.
• Coordinates of a Killer. Geospatial Solutions, November 2001.

4. Data (due 1 May)

• A clear vision of the NSDI. Geospatial Solutions. April 2004.
• Datums: Who needs 'em anyway? ArcUser, April-June 2001.
• Hydrologically enhanced, high-resolution DEMs. Elevation Magazine. April 2002 (direct link at top of page)
• Good Metadata is Key. Geospatial Solutions. September 2002
• Boosting Fieldwork Productivity with Photomaps. ArcUser. July-Sept 2007

5. Environmental modelling (due 8 May)

• Reclaiming Kaho'olaue. Geospatial Solutions. September 2004
• Maps, Mud, and Birds. Geospatial Solutions. July 2003
• Spatial Elephant Memories. Geospatial Solutions. October, 2002
• Nondestructive archaeology. Geospatial Solutions. March 2005
• Global Change – Revealing Humanity’s Impact on Earth. Earth Imaging Journal. May/June 2006: http://www.eijournal.com/Global_Change.asp

6. GIS/GPS integration (due 15 May)

• 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.
• Monitoring Mount St. Helens. Geospatial Solutions. February 2005
• Ancient Impact -- GPS and Seismic Profiling Map Hidden Crater. GeoWorld. April 2007. In readings subdirectory
• LIDAR for Mapping and GIS. Earth Imaging Journal. Jan/Feb 2006: http://www.eijournal.com/LiDar_Mapping.asp

7. Dealing with questionable software/data (due 22 May)

• 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
• From parchment to ether. Fusing historical maps with web GIS. Geospatial Solutions. April 2002.
• Oregon erosion modelling paper. In readings subdirectory.

8. Natural Resources/Misc (due 29 May)

• Surveying in Middle Earth. Measure and Map, May/June 2002.
• Reaching back through time. May 2007. Geo User
• A Spatial exploration of Lewis and Clark. Geospatial Solutions. September 2003.
• 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.
• Tales from the Warfront -- Warfighters Receive Onsite Geospatial Training. GeoWorld. October 2007. In readings subdirectory

9. More Misc. (Due 5 June)

• Unlock world resources with ArcGIS. ArcUser, April-June 2001.
• 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
• Professor Oleg McNoleg's guide to the successful use of Geographical Information Systems. IJGIS, 1998.

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. They will be discussed in class, so make sure you keep up.

Grading: Each set of readings will be worth 2% of your final grade.