LPTC TRESTE REPORT Year 2

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LPTC / TRESTE REPORT -- Year 2

• 2006-2007 ACADEMIC YEAR

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GIS / GPS Who, What, Where, Why?

• My List
• Land Management
• Fire and Rescue
• City Planning/Management
• Health / Safety
• Transportation
• Forestry
• History
• Homeland Security
• Border Patrol
• Military

• Student List
• Land Management
• Fire
• Hospital/Emergency
• Military
• Automobiles
• Cell phones
• Farming / Agriculture

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Whats the Problem?

• Participants / Students identified and discussed
  their own needs
• Result was that a common skill set would benefit
  all
• Consistent with the skill set identified by the
  instructor

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GIS is

• GIS Market
• Geospatial Technologies
• GIS / GPS / RS
• What is GIS
• How does GIS Work?
• GIS Applications
• Why Should I Use GIS?
• The 3 Views of GIS

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Skill Set / Training

• What is GIS?
• -- PowerPoint
• Latitude Longitude
• PowerPoint Exercises
• Map Reading
• PowerPoint Map exercise
• How GPS Units Work
• PowerPoint
• Hands-on Exercise(s)

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GIS/GPS What Why?

• Latitude and Longitude PowerPoint
• Lines of Latitude
• Lines of Longitude
• Degrees, Minutes, Seconds
• Exercises

Prime Meridian
Equator
Equator
Prime Meridian
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Map Reading

• Omaha Sectional chart
• Reading an Aeronautical Chart
• Aeronautical Symbols
• Airport Data
• Air navigation Lights
• Radio Facilities
• Exercises The Identification Game
• Grid Exercise

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Reading an Aeronautical Chart
Uses of an Aeronautical Chart
Maptech. Inc. (2004). What is an aeronautical
chart? Retrieved from http//www.maptech.com/air/e
ducation/index.cfm
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Reading an Aeronautical Chart
Aeronautical Symbols
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Grid ExerciseInstructions

• Use your grid paper and latitude longitude
  points to locate the following cities on the
  Aeronautical chart.
• Decatur, NE
• Homer, NE
• Macy, NE
• Onawa, IA
• Sioux City, IA
• Walthill, NE
• Winnebago, NE

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GIS is

• The Power of GIS
• Simple Query
• Buffering
• Thematic Mapping
• GIS Software

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ESRI Mapping Software
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Remote Sensing

• Definition
• 3 Types
• Satellite
• Airborne
• Ground-based
• Examples
• Applications of Remote Sensing

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Remote Sensing Multi Spec
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What is GPS

• Definition
• A System
• Satellites
• Current Applications
• (How GPS Work PowerPoint)
• GPS GIS

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Magellen GPS
PWR Button
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RELATED STUDENT PROJECTS

• Indigenous Plant Study
• Satellite Data Inventory
• Water Quality
• Land Use Loess Hills Project
• Tornado Alley
• Has it moved? Enlarged?
• Not changed at all?

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Curricular issues

• Collaborating with Science Department to
• Identify a project / problem that will
  incorporate essential concepts
• Design valid assessment rubric
• What to do about absent student(s)

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FINAL COMMENT

• Its more work to plan and set up
• Love the high level of student engagement
• Ability to apply science concepts in real-life
  situations
• (NOTE slide stolen from Peg)