GIS at UMass-Lowell

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Week - Date - Topic (Readings) - Lab topic

1. Wednesday 9/9 - Open House: Virtual worlds - Introduction to GIS software today
2. Monday 9/14 - Class 1: Introduction to GIS software and data; raster, vector data structures (Chapter 1) - Surveying, geodesy, datums, coordinate systems, map projections (Chapter 3, Understanding Map Projections (ESRI)) - Lab: Projections -- what you will and won't need to remember
3. Monday 9/21 - Data models, data structures (Chapters 2), GIS software systems. Homework: install software. Assignment 1: Report about uses of GIS and mapping in your field or area of interest
4. Monday 9/28 - Lab: Getting started with ArcGIS; Assignment 2: MassGIS exploration; Final Projects discussion.
5. Monday 10/5 - GPS (Chapter 5); aerial photos and satellite images (Chapter 6) - Lab: Image interpretation, photogrammetry, digital elevation model (DEM) data, 3D GIS views. Assignment 1 due. Assignment 3: (TBA)
6. Wednesday 10/14 - Data sources; data entry and editing; map transformations; metadata (Chapter 4); Digital data sources and access methods (Chapter 7) - Lab: Data sources; Digitizing, map transformations; data editing, clipping, collection of data layers. Assignment 2 due.
7. Monday 10/19 - Final Projects discussion, first proposal due. Take-home midterm examination via courseware, due Wednesday 10/21.
8. Monday 10/26 - Infrastructure; the built environment. Demographic and health applications. Relational databases, table manipulation. (Chapter 8). - Lab: basic table operations
9. Monday 11/2 - Basic ArcGIS operations and spatial analyses (Chapter 9) - Lab: Vector data management, demographic data analysis and mapping
10. Monday 11/9 - Applications of spatial analysis 1: Costs, paths, and routing on linear networks and on surfaces. Transportation applications. Geocoding. Terrain analysis part 1 (Chapter 11)
11. Monday 11/16 - Applications of spatial analysis 2: Raster analysis and modeling (Chapter 10) - Terrain analysis part 2 (Chapter 11). Lab: Raster Analysis - DEM, NHD data
12. Monday 11/23 - Interpolation, deterministic and statistical modeling, prediction (Chapter 12). Cartographic modeling, dynamic spatial models (Chapter 13) - Lab: Buffering, overlay. Decision support application.
13. Monday 11/30 - Data quality, future trends (Chapters 14, 15) - Lab: Mapservers, network GIS
14. Monday 12/7 - Final projects
15. Monday 12/14 - Final projects

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