GEOG 417

Advanced GIS

Syllabus

Rough lecture outlines

• Week 1:
  • 29 March
    • Went over syllabus and projects. Introduced CS for GIS. (be sure you're familiar with this)
    • Y'all need to know about significant figures. Watch this (all 5 parts). Seriously, your labs, etc will be graded assuming you know about significant figures.
    • lecture on Projections
  • 31 March : Data quality lecture (no ppt, sorry). Taken from GIS core curriculum.. D'oh - made a ppt during covid
• Week 2:
  • 5 April:
    • DTMs
  • 7 April .
    • Lab time
• Week 3:
  • 12 April. Modeling
  • 14 April . Amanda Moody presenting
• Week 4:
  • 19 April. MCA
  • 21 April. Dale Purcell presenting!
• Week 5:
  • 26 April: jobs
  • 28 April : Time to work on labs, assignments, etc.
• Week 6:
  • 3 May : GPS
  • 5 May: Qatar video
• Week 7
  • 10 May: Ben Sainsbury presenting
  • 12 May: Richard Diaz presenting
• Week 8:
  • 17 May: Interpolation
  • 19 May. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
• Week 9
  • 24 May. Advanced Cartography. Let's head into the lab and do this more or less at the same time. Goto https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxleHCzc6YynGbzJMWx6C7w/videos and pick three topics (which must be about cartography). Browse around a bit, there's some cool stuff there - and topics that should interest anyone. All are presentations given at NACIS 2021[the 2020 stuff is fair game, too] (North American Cartographic Info Society - https://nacis.org/ ). Take a few notes about them - sort of what was good/interesting/crummy/etc. Maybe a half page per talk. Turn those in to me by the end of the class period - just to verify that you did it.
  • 26 May. Jamie Cannon presenting.
• Week 10:
  • 31 May: Sterling talking about enterprise GIS.
    • Be sure you read the first 22 pages of https://www.esri.com/content/dam/esrisites/en-us/media/technical-papers/architecting-the-arcgis-system.pdf before class.
  • 2 June: Poster presentations/competition.
• Week 11
  • Thursday, 9 June. 10-12AM. This will be VERY comprehensive.

Required readings (also known as "in the news") (due fridays)

Labs:

• Lab 1: (lab O'Evil) Due the next monday. 4 points.
• Lab 2: DEM (4 pts)
• Lab 3: data management - trails (4 pts)
• Lab 4: Well moratoriums (4 pts)
• Lab 5: Site selection. With weights (4 pts)
• Lab 6: GPS accuracy. (4 pts)

The Big Research Project

Your Resume and StoryMap Portfolio

• A resume template you might want to use.

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