Geographic Information Systems and its Applications

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Geographic Information Systems and its
Applications
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Session Objectives

• Objective To know 1. what is GIS and 2. how it
  is applied in real world problem solving, and 3.
  About GIS related Careers.
• Intended Learning Outcome Understanding and
  appreciation of scope of GIS application. In
  particular, you will
• Learn about various applications of GIS and
• Search GIS applications in problems solving and
  be able to browse some GIS careers
• practice some hands on experience

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Outline

• Pre-session questionnaire
• What is GIS
• Example of GIS
• Careers in GIS
• Hands on exercises
• Post-session questionnaire

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1. Pre-session

• Simple Yes/ NO/ interested/ Know /Dont know
  answers
• Takes couple of minutes!
• Purpose to know whether the session fulfilled its
  purpose

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2. What is GIS

• Consists of
• Hardware
• Software
• Data
• People and institutions
• Can use library of information
• Research tool
• Links maps and tabular data and characterization
• Uses different maps to produce purposeful maps
• Used in many Scientific fields and disciples
• Uses GPS and Remotely sensed satellite data
• High market

• Geographic information Systems/Science
• Capture
• Store
• Retrieve
• Analysis and
• Display of spatial data

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2. Examples of GIS

• I go to Train station
• Live broadcast uses Global positioning of the
  trains
• I read news paper in train
• The paper on which the newspaper is printed comes
  from forest which uses GIS systems
• I grab a sandwich for Lunch
• Price of bread has fallen as people as using GIS
  for precision agriculture
• I teach GIS
• Surf Internet
• Driving Directions for vacation Planning

• GIS in a persons life
• My alarm goes off
• Utility company uses GIS to manage utility
• I jump to shower.
• Hydrologist couple modeling and GIS for water
  resource management
• Leave children to Bus top.
• The bus uses routing based on GIS analysis

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2. GIS Application Examples

• Improving communication of Crime statistics

http//www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/gis/studies.h
tml
(source http//www.wiley.com)
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A tax Assessors Office Produces Land Use amps for
Appraiser and PlannersManaging 'First Nation'
land ownership in Ontario, Canada
http//www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/gis/studies.h
tml
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Driving Directionshttp//www.esri.com/software/bu
smap/busmap_travel/route.html
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Developing a MIS for the city of Kfar-Saba,
Israel
http//www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/gis/studies.h
tml
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Modeling the Environment of the Salton Sea, CA,
with GIS
http//www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/gis/studies.h
tml
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Cutting the levels of work place injuries with
healthcare GIS http//www.wiley.com/legacy/wileych
i/gis/studies.html
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The GIS-based hydrologic model map of
watershed.http//www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/gi
s/studies.html
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More Applications
http//www.esri.com/index.html
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Roosevelt University GIS Program

• Go to http//www.roosevelt.edu/cas/ssm/gis.htm
• Go to http//www.roosevelt.edu/cas/ssm/gis-cert.h
  tm
• http//faculty.roosevelt.edu/achet/index.htm

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Careers in GIS

• Career path Product development, Application
  Development, Information systems, Educational
  Services, Sales and support, Marketing,
• http//www.gjc.org/
• http//www.roosevelt.edu/cas/ssm/gis-jobs.htm
• http//geosearch.com

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Class work Lets Use GIS

• 1. Open internet explorer
• 2. In the internet type http//www.esri.com/index
  .html
• 3.Go to Find a location and get Directions
  http//mapapps.esri.com/routing/index.cfm
• 4. Go to Googgle search www.google.com
• type GIS application Examples in the search
  box
• http//www.google.com/search?hlenieUTF-8oeUTF
  -8qGISapplicationexamplesspell1
• 5. Lets go to Germany
• 6. Lets go to Malawi
• 7. Lets go to Australia
• http//www.ppwcma.vic.gov.au/PDF/CatchmentNews-Dec
  ember2003.pdf

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Examples from Europe
Participatory GIS

• Putting people together with technology
• GIS as an integrative mechanism
• Sense of ownership and involvement in the
  decision-making
• Integration of public issues and management
  concerns
• Checking reality and synthesizing information

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Examples from USA

• Examples from USA
• Chesapeake Research Consortium
• ESSP in California

Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium for precision
agriculture using Geospatial technologies (GPS,
GIS, Image processing and Remote sensing)
Some projects in CA, NJ and CO
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GIS Tasks

• GIS-based Directives Development
• Management
• Policy
• Educational
• GIS-based Observations and Modeling
• Integrated Assessment and Synthesis
• Prediction
• Scenario Generation
• Comparative modeling
• Baseline /Bench Marks
• Outlook
• Monitoring and refinement

• GIS-Application Development
• Thematic Applications
• Map and displays
• Policy analysis
• Management decision making
• Communication and extension
• Matching GIS Knowledge to Focus Group Problem
  solving
• Marketing Research Approach

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GIS Tasks (Contd.)

• Trans-disciplinary GIS-applications
• Integrated tools
• Integration of Qualitative methods
• GIS in Teaching, extension, outreach
• Focus group curriculum
• Policy forums
• Stakeholders dialogues
• Publications

• Use of GIS in Risk and uncertainty analysis
• GIS Implementation
• Action plan
• Networking plan
• GIS-focused Research collaboration and networking
• Agency perspective
• People-centered

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3. Stakeholders Partners/Interest Groups

• Adults
• NGO/ PVO
• Natural resource Managers
• Teachers,
• Students
• Agri-businesses
• Govt. Agencies
• General Public

• Agencies
• Educational Institutions
• Schools
• Colleges
• Universities
• Farmers
• Ranchers
• Youth

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4. Participatory Approaches
Stakeholders interests and relationship
Practice
Knowledge
Attitude
Stakeholders can make a difference
People
GIS applications
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Role Play

• Instructor will demonstrate
• Join two maps
• Make map of steep areas for planting
• Make a population map of USA
• Geocode Customers of Atlanta/ Address matching
• Network Analysis of routes
• You follow the example and prepare a map for the
  meeting
• Join two maps
• Make a map of USA with population
• Geocode Customers of Atlanta

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Interval 10 minutes
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Know your tools

• Can you identify, software, Data, People and
  Institutions?
• Know your tools
• Click StartArcGISArccatalog
• Click StartArcGISArcmap
• Click Start arcGISArctoolbox

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Inputs Images Tables Grids TINS CAD
Drawings Internet servers Data
files Shapefiles, coverages, Geodatabases Metadat
a
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Menubar
Toolbar
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Context menus
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Property tabs
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Contents
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Preview
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Metadata
Create, edit, update, export and import
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Arctools
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Hands On Exercise

• Print a Map of Going from Robin Campus to Chicago
  campus for a visitor
• Join two maps
• Follow the directions to prepare a map of
  Population of United States
• Geocode address of Atlanta customers

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Prepare a Driving Direction

• Print a Map of Going from Robin Campus to Chicago
  campus for a visitor
• Go to http//www.esri.com
• Type http//mapapps.esri.com/routing/index.cfm
• Click driving directions
• From 1400 N Roosevelt Blv, Schaumburg, IL 60173
• 430 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60606

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Join two maps
1. Open arcmap

• 2. Open arccatalog and navigate to
• C\arcgis\ArcTutor\Getting_Started\project\City_sh
  are\land
• 3. Click (select) parcel1.shp, press contol and
  select parcel2.shp
• 4. Drag and drop in arcmap
• 5. In ArcMap Go to tools Geoprocessing wizard
• merge two layers check parcel1 and parcel 2
  Next finish

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Make a Map of Population 1997 and Population 1994

• In arccatalog Go to C\arcgis\SampleMaps\Data\sta
  tes\states.shp
• Open attribute table (right click open
  attribute table
• Follow Instructors guidance to make a map

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Geocode Atlanta Customers

• In arccatalog Go to establish new geocoding
  service
• Follow Instructors guidance to covert address
  into map
• Post-Session Evaluation

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