Program - Curriculum - Seminar

JOURNAL CLUB WINTER 2009
(CFR 521E) - Geospatial Analysis for Bioenergy Feasibility Assessment

Instructors:
Dr. L. Monika Moskal (lmmoskal@uw.edu)

Co-participants:
UW Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory

DAY and TIME:
Monday from 1:30 - 3:00

PLACE:
Bloedel 292

Grading:

  • Discussion Lead Participation [25%]

  • Class Participation [25%]

  • Data Acquisition\Analysis Participation [50%]

 

Course Discussion Board (Project Work)

Course ShareSpace
COURSE RESOURCES

 

Readings & Software:

Access reading list on the bioenergy IGERT shared space (UW Net ID required): Shared Space

Students will be provided with a student version (1 year licence) of ArcGIS 9.2 (see Dr. Moskal to receive the dvd)

Purpose of the course:

Think of the class as a crash course in geospatial tools, the class aims at introducing the fundamental concepts to help you think critically and evaluate geospatial research and application in the context of interdisciplinary research. You will learn how to communicate your data needs to geospatial scientist.  You will learn where to locate geospatial data and how to evaluate the quality and usability of such data.

This is not a 'hands on' course in GIS or remote sensing analysis, however, there will be data acquisition component to the course where you will work alongside geospatial scientists, collating a geospatial database for the Salish Kootenai (CSKT) Cohort 2 Project.

Date

Topic

Discussion Lead

Readings
Lab Work

Oct  5

Introductions: purpose of the IGERT, of the journal club, and student introductions.

Moskal

Visit the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Dynamic Maps, GIS Data & Analysis Tools website

Oct 12

Theme: Resolution and Scale

Moskal

Sections from Quattrochi and Goodchild (1997)

Oct 19

Geospatial databases; an example: Natural Resource Planner (aka Wind Planer) for Kansas

Mike Houts, Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program

Visit and explore the website: link

Oct 26

Theme: Data Quality

Moskal

Key paper: Cohen et al. 2003
Sections from Foody and Atkinson (2002); Sections from Lunetta and Lyon (2004)

Nov 2

Theme: Vegetation Mapping from Remote Sensing (NDVI)

IGERT Group 1: Tim Geary, Keala Hagmann, Steve Rigdon

Key paper:  Xie et al. 2008, Ramachandra 2007, Cingolani et al. 2004 and Kokaly et al. 2003

Project Outline and Organization

Nov 9

Theme: Transportation Network Analysis (GIS)

IGERT Group 2: Tyler House, Ezra Kahn, Lisa Lai

Key paper:  Zhan et al. 2005
+ 2 additional papers from the group (papers will be provided to the class one week ahead of discussion)

Data Acquisition Sprint Part 1: Identify the data sources for the Salish Kootenai (CSKT) Project. All participants will be involved in identifying datasets.

Nov 16

Theme: Geospatial Biomass Assessment

IGERT Group 3: Rohan Theobald, Maura Shelton, Kenneth Faires

Key paper(s):  Blackard et al. 2008, Voivontas et al. 2001 and Hood River Biomass Energy Study Initial Feasibility Assessment Report (2007)

Jeff Richardson (Cohort 1) will presnet the Cohort 1 group project.

Data Acquisition Sprint Part 2: Compile the data sources for the Salish Kootenai (CSKT) Project. All participants will be involved in identifying datasets.

Homework : work through the ESRI ArcGIS Network Analyst Tutorial

Nov 23

Theme: Other BioResource Applications

IGERT Group 4: Stephanie Candelaria, Amanda Lee, J.D. Tovey

Key paper(s):  3 papers from the group (papers will be provided to the class one week ahead of discussion)

Jeff Richardson (Cohort 1) will presnet the Cohort 1 group project.

Data Formatting and Prep. All participants will be involved in identifying datasets.

 

Nov 30

Data Analysis Sprint Part 1 - IGERT Group Lead: Laurel James

Dec 7

Data Analysis Sprint Part 2 - IGERT Group Lead: Laurel James

 


 

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