Syllabus

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Assignments

• On-line Readings (first handout)
• On-line Readings, part 2 (second handout)
  

• GIS Bibliography
• GIS Web Sites
• Mapping Opportunities (Nature)
• Turning a Map Into a Layer Cake of Information (NY Times)
  
• USGS Map Scales Fact Sheet
• USGS UTM Fact Sheet
• USGS Map Accuracy Fact Sheet
  
• USGS Guide to Map Projections

• Course Introduction
• Maps and Mapping
• Introduction to GIS
• ArcGIS - An Overview
• Georeferencing and Coordinate Systems
• Base maps and DOQs
• Data Structures - Raster
• Data Structures - Vector
• Sources of Geospatial Data I
• Sources of Geospatial Data II
• Sources of Geopspatial Data III
  
• Data Conversion (digitizing)
• Thematic Mapping
• Spatial Analysis I
• Spatial Analysis II - analysis of surfaces
  
• Spatial Analysis III - overlay analsyis
• Spatial Analysis IV - network analysis
• Spatial Modeling