Geog 461 Urban GIS Lab Summary and Schedule
Updated January 16, 2007
Lab Summary
Creating a Wastewater Recycling Functional Plan
Lab 1 Geodatabase
Development - 25 points
Students scope a problem, complete a database design and implement that
database design for a functional planning decision situation associated
wastewater recycling facilities.
Lab 2 Preliminary Analysis - 25 points
Students perform a preliminary analysis for a wastewater recycling facilities
plan.
Lab 3 Final Analysis - 25 points
Students perform final analysis for a wastewater recycling facility plan.
Formulating a Natural Capital Improvement Program
Lab 4 Natural Capital Improvement Programming
- 25 points
Students perform tradeoff analysis as part of a natural capital improvement
programming decision situation as a way of prioritizing anticipated
expenditures for the community.
Moving Forward with Natural Capital Project Implementation
Lab 5 Database Development for Capital Project
Implementation - 25 points
Students extend the planning database to address capital project implementation.
More data details are needed to characterize various impacts such as those
related to traffic and wetlands.
Lab 6 Assessing Traffic and Environmental Impacts
- 25 points
Students perform traffic and wetlands impact analysis for a wastewater
recycling facility site.
Final Project - 50 points
Students (in three-person groups - mandatory) will choose an Urban GIS topic of interest to them and execute the project in multiple phases.
Lab Schedule
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Lab days M/T |
Lab days W/Th |
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1 - starting Jan 7 |
Lab 1 assigned |
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2 - starting Jan 14 |
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Lab 1 due |
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3 - starting Jan 21 |
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Lab 2 due |
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4 - starting Jan 28 |
Final Project Status Report 1 assigned |
Lab 3 due |
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5 - starting Feb 04 |
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Lab 4 due |
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6 - starting Feb 11 |
Final Project Status Report 2 assigned |
Lab 5 due |
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7 - starting Feb 18 |
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Status Report 1 due |
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8 - starting Feb 25 |
Lab 6 due |
Status Report 2 due |
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9 - starting Mar 03 |
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10 - starting Mar 10 |
Presentations |
Presentations |
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11 - Finals week |
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Final Project report and Peer Evaluations due Wed Mar 19 at exam |