Intro to GIS Course Outline

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Tentative Course Outline for Intro to GIS

Spring 2004

All lectures and labs meet in AS-003 unless otherwise specified

Date	Lecture	Readings (in Longley)
1/22	What is GIS?	Ch. 1 & 2
1/27	History of GIS
1/29	Lab 1--Using ArcView (due 2/12)
2/3	Geodesy and spherical coordinate systems	Ch. 3
2/5	Map projection, Planar coordinate systems	Ch. 4
2/10	Map projection (cont.)
2/12	Lab 2--Projection problems (due 2/26)
2/17	NO CLASS
2/19	Intro to computer hardware and operating systems
2/24	Scanning and digitizing	Ch. 5, 6 & 10
2/26	Lab 3—Building queries (due 3/16)
3/2	Spatial data structures	Ch. 8 & 9
3/4	Visualization and User Interaction
3/9	Measurement
3/11	Classification	Ch. 7, 13
3/16	Lab 4--Polygon Overlay(due 3/30)
3/18	MIDTERM EXAM
3/23	Digital elevation models	Ch. 10
3/25	Terrain representation and analysis
3/30	Database Management Systems	Ch. 11
4/1	Address matching
4/6	NO CLASS
4/8	NO CLASS
4/13	Lab 5--Address Matching (due 4/27)
4/15	Overlay analysis	Ch. 13
4/20	Overlay analysis (cont.)
4/22	Network analysis
4/27	Network analysis (cont.)
4/29	Error
5/4	Cartographic Modeling