Schedule for FOR357/557, PRACTICAL VECTOR GIS
Fall 2007 Schedule - for 2008 the schedule will be similar
but NOT exactly the same

UpdatedDecember 4, 2007 11:54 AM

NOTE: CHANGE IS SCHEDULE DUE TO NEED TO REVIEW OVERLAY FUNCTIONS
useful links to OVERLAY functions from ESRI on-line help

Examples of Grad Student Final Projects from '06

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1
8/28

Introduction to course 1 and 2

 

  Mental Maps (done in class)    

Sec 1 Lab in 315 Bray this Today

Intro to maps

2
8/30      

Maps

Data management note


Friday lab in 324 Bray
Sec 2 "mental Maps" done in this lab.

Intro to maps

3
9/4

The GeoDatabase

Important parts of Mod1: discussion points

Change! Mod 1 up to the topic: Understanding map scale   Quiz 1 Exercise 2, GDBs due 9/11 in class LABS FOR THIS COURSE CHANGED TO 309 BAKER starting this week.
4
9/6

Review of submitting stuff
PP
Demo of making quick maps

Rest of Mod 1 Transcript to be sent to mod557@
rousmail.esf .edu
      Transcript mailing
5
9/11

Symbology1
Classification demo

      Ex3v1.1, due 9/20 (reformatted so clearer)

selection files
StateHiway.doc


6
9/13 Symbology 2 (draft) All of Mod 2, symbology       Note: Mod 2 has 4 30min exercises. You should be able to complete in 3 hrs.
7
9/18 Intro to projections, etc. Mod 3, part 1     Ex4v1.0
due 9/25
 
8
9/20 Details of projections, etc Mod 3, part 2 Transcript mod3 due Quiz2    
9
9/25

Review of 9/20 fiasco
Overview of New GeoDatabases

Mod 4. part 1     Ex5v1.0
due 10/4
 
10
9/27 DEMO, MOSTLY GRIDS Mod 4 part 2 Transcript mod 4 due Quiz 3    
11
10/2 Using GIS to find places to grow/harvest wood for biofuel production          
12 10/4

GeoDatabases & Editing

Mod5 thru Ex 1 and 2    

Ex6a
due 10/11

Ex6a has been tested and it works!!!!!
13 10/9 Creating new features Rest of mod5 Transcript of 5 due Quiz3 repeat    
14 10/11 Mapping      

Ex6b Due 10/18

 
15 10/16 Intro to GIS Anaysis
Selection
Mod 6 through first two exercises     Ex7a Due 10/23  
16 10/18 Overlay x    



 
17 10/23 GeoProcessing Rest of Mod6 Transcript of 6 due Trial Quiz 4 --> Ex7b Due 10/30 Answers to Quiz 4
18 10/25

Environments
GeoProcessing 2

    2nd Trial quiz 4

Answers  
19 10/30 Exercise 8 stuff Mod 7 Transcript of 7 due Quiz 4
Answers
Ex8 Due 11/6  
20 11/1 Mapping tricks and Join          
21 11/6 Review of OVERLAY (.doc) (htm) Mod 8 Transcript of 8 due buffer and overlay (ppt) (doc)    
22 11/8 Mapping     QUIZ 4    
23 11/13 Grids & Surface analysis Demo - prep for Ex9 Mod 1 of SA, Exercises 1,2,&3   new--> Ex9v1.1 /Due 11/20  
24 11/15 Joining trick again
Reclassification
         
25 11/20 Ex10 intoduction       Ex10 Due12/4  
11/21 - 11/25 Thanksgiving break.
26 11/27 Viewshed          
27 11/29 Getting Data          
28 12/4 Pathway & Evaluation          
29 12/6 Summary/hydro          

  You will have several choices for the final project. One of the canned final projects listed in the Syllabus, A Final project of your own design (approved by me) or one or more of the ESRI online courses listed here.

NOTES
Module = ESRI ON-LINE COURSE -- Learning ArcGis 9, Module quiz results DUE electronically at
Mod557@rousmail.esf.edu on the date in which the assignment appears.
Check your
esf assigned SU e-mail address (unless you are a CE student in which case I will use the address you gave Outreach) for password for this course! Date Due is the date the that the module exam must be submitted.

Quiz = Date of Quizzes. They cover the past assignments cumulatively but with emphases on readings and module work assigned for the lecture and exercises Lab Exercises. If the quiz is linked (blue underline) then there is a study guide available

Require Text. Theobald, David M. 2005 GIS Concepts and ARCGIS Methods. Conservation Planning Technologies, Fort Collins, CO. 443 pp. ISBN 0-9679208-3-3 paper

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