Intro to GIS Course Outline

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Tentative Course Outline for Intro to GIS

Spring 2006

All labs meet in AS-003 unless otherwise specified

Date	Lecture	Readings (in Longley)
1/24	What is GIS?	Ch. 1 & 2
1/26	History of GIS
1/31	Lab 1--Using ArcGIS (due 2/14)
2/2	Geodesy and spherical coordinate systems	Ch. 3
2/7	Map projection, Planar coordinate systems	Ch. 4
2/9	Map projection (cont.)
2/14	Lab 2--Where's My House? (due 3/2)
2/16	Intro to computer hardware and operating systems
2/21	NO CLASS
2/23	NO CLASS
2/28	Scanning and digitizing	Ch. 5, 6 & 10
3/2	Lab 3—Building a Shopping Mall (or maybe not): Getting the data : (due 3/21)
3/7	Spatial data structures	Ch. 8 & 9
3/9	Visualization and User Interaction
3/14	Measurement	Ch. 14
3/16	Classification	Ch. 7, 13
3/21	Lab 4--Building a Shopping Mall: Performing the Analysis (due 4/18)
3/23	MIDTERM EXAM
3/28	Digital elevation models	Ch. 10
3/30	Terrain representation and analysis
4/4	Database Management Systems	Ch. 11
4/6	Address matching
4/11	NO CLASS
4/13	NO CLASS
4/18	Lab 5—Building a Shopping Mall: Buying Property  (due 5/4)
4/20	Overlay analysis	Ch. 13
4/25	Overlay analysis (cont.)
4/27	Network analysis
5/2	Network analysis (cont.)
5/4	Error
5/9	Cartographic Modeling