Class Notes

These notes consist of material prepared for each class meeting or presentation and notes created after each class meeting.  They are organized by date.

Meeting Date(s) Type Subject(s) Text (if applicable)
1 6 March PicTel Introduction to GIS GTKAV Chapters 1-6
   
2-3 13 March Workshop Review of Windows Chapter 7
Software Installation Appendix D
Visualization Chapter 8
Symbolization and Classification Chapter 9
More on Symbolization Chapter 10
   
4 20 March PicTel Measuring Distance and Area of
Georeferenced Data
Chapter 11a-b
Projections and Datums Chapter 11c
Managing Scale Chapter 12
Selecting Things Chapters 13-14a
   
5 20-26 March Lab Hands-on practice with managing themes and selecting features Chapters 10-14a
   
6 27 March PicTel Editing Tables Chapter 15a
The Field Calculator Chapter 15b
Summarizing Information Chapters 14b-c, 15c
Joins and Links Chapter 16
Spatial analysis (vector data) Chapters 17 - 20
   
7 27 March - 2 April Lab Hands-on practice with the Field Calculator, joins and links, summaries, and spatial analysis Chapters 14b-20
   
8-9 3 April Workshop Layouts Chapter 22
Creating and editing shapes Chapters 23-24
Introduction to raster data analysis Chapter 29
   
10 3-9 April Lab Hands-on practice with layouts, shape editing, and managing raster data Chapters 22-24; 29
   
11 10 April PicTel Computing distance grids
    Using distance and proximity grids
    Working with DEMs
   
12 17 April PicTel Map Algebra: Resampling
    Map Algebra: Operations (Incomplete)
    Viewshed calculations
    Density calculations (Incomplete)
    Reprojecting grids (See Working With DEMs)
    Building spatial models (Incomplete)
   
13-14 24 April Workshop Student presentations