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 |