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Title: GEO 580 Advanced Applications of GIS in the Geosciences


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GEO 580AdvancedApplications of GIS in the
Geosciences
  • Monday/Wednesday
  • 600 - 730 p.m.
  • Cordley 3003
  • 4 credits

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Dawn Wright
dawn_at_dusk.geo.orst.edu 737-1229
Office Hours Mondays/Wednesdays 114 Wilkinson
Hall 200- 300 p.m.
TA
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What Will You Learn?
  • Theoretical
  • broaden base of GIS theory established in GEO
    465/565
  • build entry points into GIS research literature
  • cover sets of topics in GIS research practice,
    with a focus on the geosciences / coastal
    marine sciences

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What Will You Learn?
  • Theoretical
  • consider expanded capabilities of GIS in more
    detail and relate them to YOUR current work
  • rethink the characteristics of spatial data, of
    data analysis procedures
  • all about putting technology to work EFFECTIVELY

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What Will You Learn?
  • Technical
  • Practice w/ WindowsXP as a working environment
    for GIS
  • build a base of knowledge in ArcGIS 8
  • apply GIS methods to problem-solving / project
    completion
  • work toward professional level GIS skills

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Textbooks
  • Required
  • Geographic Information
  • Systems and Science
  • by Longley, Goodchild,
  • Maguire, Rhind, 2001

Modeling Our World by Zeiler, 2001
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Optional Textbook
Spatial Reasoning for Effective GIS by Joseph
Berry, 1995
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Required Project - 2 options
  • Option 1
  • Tuesday labs in ArcGIS
  • ArcGIS data models, spatial analysis, networks,
    surfaces, digitizing, metadata
  • Take FINAL exam
  • Option 2
  • apply course concepts to your own project (thesis
    or dissertation)
  • poster or web presentation during Dead Week
  • No FINAL

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Project Options (cont.)
  • dusk.geo.orst.edu/buffgis/project.html
  • Select option by end of Add-Drop period
  • Friday, April 12th
  • Classroom Access Code
  • 0573563

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Milestones
  • Required intro. exercise in ArcGIS - April 19th
  • Mid-Term exam - April 29th
  • Final exam - June 10th, 800-1000 p.m.

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Grading
  • ArcGIS exercise (lab 1) - 10
  • Mid-Term - 25
  • Project Option 1 / Final - 45 / 20
  • Project Option 2 / Presentation - 45 / 20

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Survival Skills
  • Follow lecture material
  • Keep up with reading in BOTH textbooks
  • Proficiency in Windows, ArcGIS, ArcView 3 and
    HTML
  • Build self-help capability
  • Share resources

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Resources
  • Yourself

Web site http//dusk.geo.orst.edu/buffgis
Online documentation
Me!
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GEO 580 Discussion Board
  • Please log in and subscribe

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Opportunities
  • ESRI User Conference. Every year in San Diego.
  • regional meetings as well
  • User Conference Student Asst. Program
  • www.esri.com/company/jobs/uc_student_prog.html
  • Applications due by April 12, 2002
  • NE Oregon GIS Conference
  • May 24, Pendleton (abstracts due March 15)

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ESRI Virtual CampusFREE subscriptions to OSU
students
  • campus.esri.com
  • ArcInfo --gt ArcGIS 8
  • ArcView Basics
  • AV Image Analysis
  • AV 3D Analyst
  • AV Model Builder
  • ArcIMS
  • Visual Basic
  • all GIS Technology courses

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What Kind of Jobs Exist in GIS?
  • (1) System developers
  • high level of technical skills
  • programmers in C, Java, Visual Basic
  • 1,000 people
  • (2) System maintainers
  • moderate technical skills
  • programmers in UML, Visio, CASE, Visual Basic
  • 10,000 people

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What Kind of Jobs Exist in GIS?
  • (3) System users
  • modest technical skills
  • know how to use the tools
  • familiar with the technical issues
  • know the application domains
  • work for univ., corp., govts.
  • 100,000 people
  • (4) General public
  • minimal technical skills
  • Know how to use some tools
  • 1,000,000 people

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Success as (3) System User?
  • the basic principles (GIS education)
  • still there when the software changes
  • how to be a demanding skeptic
  • demand better documentation
  • reliable and accurate results
  • fixes for bugs
  • what GIS means
  • what the data mean in the real world
  • what operations mean

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Hands-on practical training?
  • software changes often (every 2 years)
  • hands-on experience
  • reinforces basic principles
  • encourages you to be a demanding skeptic
  • encourages thinking about what GIS means

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ARC/INFO, ArcInfo, ArcGIS
  • the workhorse of GIS
  • the engine behind ArcView
  • command-line interface
  • required syntax
  • difficult to use

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ArcInfo 8
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ArcInfo 8
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ArcInfo 8
  • new easy-to-use version
  • several hundred person-years invested
  • complete rewrite, first since 1980
  • version 7 becomes ArcInfo Workstation, the core
    of ArcGIS
  • ArcInfo Desktop, WIMP, wizards
  • ArcView is now a subset in ArcGIS 8, along with
    ArcSDE, ArcIMS, ArcObjects, etc.
  • expect bugs
  • First labs in ArcGIS
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