ES 551 Spring schedule for 2008

ES 551 XA/ZA
Spring Schedule
2008
James S. Aber

The spring 2008 course schedule is given below for weekly activities in ES 551 XA/ZA. On-campus students meet on Wednesday afternoons (1:00 to 2:50) in the GeoSpatial Analysis (GSA) Lab (SH 16). Dates below are for each Wednesday. For updates and "last-minute" information, check the weekly announcements.

Block I Schedule

Week	Web Lecture	Textbook	Lab Exercise	Special
Jan. 16	Introduction to GIS		Review Idrisi	Send email
Jan. 23	History of maps Maps as representations	Chap. 1	Idrisi 1-3 Idrisi 1-4
Jan. 30	Map projections Coordinate systems	Chap. 2	Idrisi 1-5
Feb. 6	GPS overview gps.pdf & chicken.pdf	Chap. 2	Idrisi 1-6
Feb. 13	GIS databases Raster data structure GIS networks	Chap. 3	Idrisi 1-7
Feb. 20	GIS data sources	Chap. 4	Idrisi 1-8
Feb. 27	Data storage Error in GIS	Chap. 4	Idrisi 2-2	Mid-term exam Feb. 29-Mar.4
Mar. 5	Data quality in GIS	Chap. 5	Idrisi 2-3

Block II Schedule

Week	Web Lecture	Textbook	Lab Exercise	Special
Mar. 12	Digital elevation data	Chap. 6	DEM exercise
Mar. 19	Spring Break
Mar. 26	Digital orthophotos		Map projections
April 2	Project proposals		Project work
Apr. 9	Web-based GIS	Chap. 8	Project work
Apr. 16	Cartographic design	Chap. 7	Project work
Apr. 23	Process modeling	Chap. 9	Project work
Apr. 30	Public access to GIS	Chap. 10	Project work
May 7	Present projects			Final exam May 9-13

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