What is GIS: and why you should care

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An Intro to GIS Your Resources
Tracey Hughes, UCSD GIS Coordinator
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• The application of GIS is limited
• only by the imagination
• of those who use it.
• Jack Dangermond, ESRI President Founder

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Our Plan of Action
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Introduction

• Me
• GIS Coordinator, Librarian
• You
• Name, Year, Hopes for GIS
• GIS
• What is it the true basics

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Introduction to GIS

• Geographic Information System
• Implemented with software tools
• Layers Attributes

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Layers
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Tables

• Behind the map are database tables

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The GIS Process

• Ask a question
• Obtain necessary data
• Determine best method of analysis
• Temporal
• Spatial
• Attribute
• Analyze
• Present results

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GIS Jobs!

• People with the skill to use GIS are in demand
  across a broad range of professions, in
  government, business and nonprofit organizations
  nationwide.
• (University of Texas at Arlington School of Urban
  and Public Affairs website)

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Endless possibilities
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GIS is cool.

• Maps of War (http//www.mapsofwar.com/)
• Social Explorer Quick maps at Census tract level
  race time series of LA (http//www.socialexplore
  r.com) (http//www.socialexplorer.com/pub/maps/map
  3.aspx?g2animationtrue)
• CensusScope Maps, trends , rankings and racial
  segregation based on Census data
  (http//www.censusscope.org) (http//www.censussco
  pe.org/us/map_65plus.html)

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See things anew
Percentage of population below poverty level
viewed as height
Image created by TELESIS with UCSDs Regional
Workbench Consortium
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Oceans

• WRI - Coral Bleaching Events and Sea Surface
  Temperature Anomaly Hot Spots, 1997 - 1998

Image from http//earthtrends.wri.org/maps_spatial
/maps_detail_static.php?map_select207theme1
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Land Life Oceans

• Global population w/in 100km of coast
  

Image from http//earthtrends.wri.org/maps_spatial
/maps_detail_static.php?map_select196theme4
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The Final Reasons

• Communicate.
• Sell your position.
• as the saying goes, a picture is worth a
  thousand words!

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GIS Resources
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Data

• Multidisciplinary multiple information types
• Policy Info
• Municipal websites
• Federal documents
• Scientific Info
• NOAA
• Southwest Fisheries
• SIO

• Economic Information
• Census
• Journals
• Business databases

• Geographic Information
• Many of the same sources

Dont forget to use your librarians!
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GIS Data

• X Drive in Geisel GIS Lab
• GIS Sage Page
• Your Excel files and tables
• Your GPS data

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GIS Data

• Variety of topics geographic areas
• GIS Data Depot (http//data.geocomm.com/catalog/)
  
• United Nations Environment Programme
  (http//geodata.grid.unep.ch/)
• NOAA (http//coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/ge/
  )
• World Resources Institute WRI
  (http//www.wri.org/)
• Imagery
• NOAA for Puerto Rico, Hawaii Virgin Islands
  (http//ccma.nos.noaa.gov/about/biogeography/)
• Institute for Marine Remote Sensing IMARS
  (http//imars.usf.edu/corals/)

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GIS Data (cont.)

• Local San Diego Data
• SANDAG http//www.sandag.org
• Land Use (mid 1980s Present)
• Community Planning Areas
• Transit Routes Stops
• Schools
• SanGIS http//www.sangis.org
• Zoning
• Parks
• Business Enterprise Zones

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Its up to you.

• The application of GIS is limited
• only by the imagination
• of those who use it.
• Jack Dangermond, ESRI President Founder

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You have help!

• Tracey Hughes, GIS Coordinator
• Geisel GIS Lab
• t2hughes_at_ucsd.edu
• [phone]