Geography 461 Urban GIS: A Decision Support Perspective

Required Deliverables for Final Project

There are five parts to the final project. The parts description, point value and respective due dates are presented below. All students in the group will receive the same score resulting from the assessment of each part.

1. Status Report 1: Problem Statement and Database Design (10 points) – due February 20 (AC, AD) and February 21 (AA, AB)

Problem statement

A reasonably complete project description includes:

o a. A background problem statement of 1/2 to 1 page describing the scope and content of the project.

o b. An annotated  bibliography of at least five literature references related to background issues connected to the project.

o c. A well-formed research question with connection to the background problem statement.

o d. A list of feature data classes to be used in the project. Remember that “nouns within the research question” tend to be feature classes.

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Database design (Overview of geodatabase development process)

This report will consist of two items:

o a. Table that contains three columns: feature class names, definitions, and data source references (WAGDA is not a direct reference, use actual organization name).

o b. Class diagram in the same style as the data(base) models at the GISDS URL links or the ESRI data model website.

2. Status Report 2: Operations Design (5 points) – due February 27 (AC, AD) and February 28 (AA, AB)

o a. Refined class diagram, with a table of attributes for each of the feature classes.

o b. Class-Operations diagram, similar to the Model Builder capability.

- Ovals are feature classes and rectangles are operations.

- See the workflow diagrams in the textbook.

3. Final Project Presentation (10 points)

– Presentations to be delivered in section in last week of classes.

– A schedule will be posted on Sherman Lab door.

4. Final Project Report (25 points) - due at the final exam on Wednesday March 19

5. Student Peer Evaluation (required for course grade separate from final project report) – due at the final exam on Wednesday March 19