| Timeline |
Starting Date |
Exercise |
Lecture/Discussion |
Reading |
| Week 1 |
Oct 6 |
Working
with vector, raster, and CAD data in a personal geodatabase |
Orientation& GIS
Overview – hardware and software components, spatial data types, and
other considerations.
|
Additional/optional Readings provided |
| Week 2 |
Oct 13 |
Tabular
joins, spatial selections, and link to data in RDBMS |
Introduction
to database fundamentals and ESRI/GIS data types |
Additional/optional Readings provided |
| Week 3 |
Oct 20 |
Virtual Campus Course work |
Geodatabase Design
Considerations |
Harmon, Anderson
Chapter 8: “… Selecting Hardware and Software” Chapter 2:
“Before Design: Needs Assessment and Requirements Analysis”
Understanding Coordinate Management in the Geodatabase, ESRI White
paper (PDF) |
| Week 4 |
Oct 27 |
Creating a
Geodatabase and Loading datasets
|
Creating the Geodatabase
Part 1 |
Harmon,
Anderson text… Chapter 4
(pages 69-111): “Designing Spatial Data” and
Chapter 5: “Design Issues for Attribute Data”
Additional/optional
Readings provided |
| Week 5 |
Nov 3 |
Very Personal
Geodatabase |
Inital Project Ideas
|
Harmon,
Anderson text… Read
Chapter 3: “Designing the GIS Database Schema” |
| Week 6 |
Nov 17 |
Site Selection |
GIS Data
and Analysis |
Harmon, Anderson text…
Read Chapter 7: “Implementation: Data Development and Conversion”
|
| Week 7 |
Nov 24 |
Bad Maps! Map1,
Map2,
Map3,
Map4 |
No Lecture
Tonight’s focus is
on identifying project interests
Project Team Matrix |
Harmon,
Anderson text… Read
Chapter 6: “Remotely Sensed Data as Background Layers and Data
Sources”
|
| Week 8 |
Dec 1 |
Georeferencing
Imagery and Raster Data Prepare for Presentations |
Review: GeoDatabase design,
feature datasets and subclasses Bad Maps! Presentations |
Remote sensing
Data Model examples
|
| Week 9 |
Dec 8 |
Bad Maps! Presentations Topology Exercise |
Topology Lecture
Editing Demo |
Harmon,
Anderson text… Read
Chapter 6: “Remotely Sensed Data as Background Layers and Data
Sources”
Additional/optional
Readings provided
|
| Week 10 |
Dec 15 |
Fall Quarter Wrap-up 10 - 15 Minute Project
Presentations |
none |