G
425/525 Field GIS
D. Percy
e-mail: percyd@pdx.edu
Summer Term 2003
Tentative Syllabus
| Lecture/
Meeting |
Topics | Assignment | Assignment Status |
| 1 |
Introduction/ Class Overview | Tutorial / Extended exercise | Assignment 1 HO |
| 2 |
Basics: Intro to GIS, finding basemaps, posting your own data, different projections, DEMs | Posting data, joining attribute tables, choosing projection | |
| 3 |
Background computer science concepts: bits and bytes; ASCII; serial communications; instrument interfacing; | Assignment 1 Due Assignment 2 HO |
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| 4 |
Data Management; Relational vs Flat File; Spatial data transformations; MetaData!!!; data transfer standards; Clipping/creating subsets; Cross-sections; buffers, temporal analysis and display, digitizing... | Finding data, reprojecting data performing queries, reclassification | |
| 5 |
Preparing for field work | Assignment 2 Due Assignment 3 HO |
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| 6 |
Intro GPS; GPS and GIS | GPS exercise at duniway park | |
| 6 |
Discuss preparation for field work | Assignment 3 Due | |
| 7 |
Preparing databases for fieldwork | ||
| 8 |
Using planning software for optimal satellite coverage. | ||
| 9 |
Presenting results | More fun with layouts, etc | Local Field work |
| 10 |
Downloading data | ||
| 11 |
Verifying overlay on downloaded basemaps | ||
| 12 |
All day field data collection | ||
| 13 |
All day field data collection | ||
| 14 |
Work on final products and report | ||
15 |
Work on final products and report | ||
16 |
In class presentations |
Assignment Status Key (Top)
HO = Handed Out
Due = Due
HB = Handed Back
CB = Corrections Due
Green = My activity
Red = Your activity
Comments or Problems? Contact percyd@pdx.edu
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May 06, 2003 05:23 PM