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Institute for Environmental Spatial
AnalysisGainesville College Spatial Analysis
LaboratoryGCSALhttp//www.gc.peachnet.edu/s
cience/gisLewis Rogers, Director
IESAlrogers_at_gc.peachnet.eduChris Semerjian,
Director GCSALcsemerjian_at_gc.peachent.eduMatt
Miller, Instructor of Physical Geography
GISmmiller_at_gc.peachnet.edu JB Sharma,
Associate Professor of Physics Remote
Sensingjsharma_at_gc.peachnet.edu
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GIS _at_ Gainesville college

• 1997 NSF ATE-PTK Grant to Develop Area D Course
  - Introduction to GIS
• 1998 GIS Certificate
• 2000 NSF ATE Grant State University of West
  Georgia
• 2001 NSF K-12 Grant
• 2001 Institute of Environmental Spatial Analysis
• 2004 GeorgiaView

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Area D GIS CourseGISC 2011/2011L Intro to
Geographic Information Science

• An introduction to the principles and
  applications of Geographic Information Systems
  (GIS). Examines the accuracy and applications of
  geographic information including spatial
  analysis, data management, data visualization,
  and data retrieval. Emphasis is placed on the
  interdisciplinary nature of GIS and its relevance
  to society. The two hour course and the one hour
  lab involve hands-on computer exercises.

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GIS Certificate

• The Certificate in Geographic Information Science
  is designed to complement students who are
  pursuing or who already possess an Associates
  Degree or higher. Students will be prepared for
  entry level positions as GIS technicians and/or
  transfer into competitive four-year degree
  programs.

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GIS Certificate18 hours

• Introduction to Geographic Information Science
• Spatial Analysis in GIS
• Fundamentals of Cartography and Earth
  Measurements
• Data Acquisition and Conversion in GIS
• Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
• Special Topics in GIS, Service Learning in GIS,
  or Internship in GIS.

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GISC2012 / 2012LSpatial Analysis in GIS with
Lab3 hours

• A continuation of GISC 2011, this course is an
  introduction to more complex spatial operations
  in GIS. Emphasis is placed on geographic data
  analysis, including data sampling, statistical
  description, manipulation, presentation, and
  interpretation. Prerequisites GISC 2011, MATH
  1101.
• Lab One lab period consisting of two hours per
  week. Activities are designed to supplement
  lecture materials in GISC 2012. Computer
  exercises are used to integrate statistical
  methods with Geographic Information Systems.
  Corequisite GISC 2012.

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GISC2201Cartography and Earth Measurement3 hours

• An introduction to the fundamentals of
  cartography and earth mapping. Topics covered
  include coordinate systems, map projections, map
  interpretation, thematic map design, and
  cartographic theory. Prerequisites READ 0099,
  MATH 1101.

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GISC2202Data Acquisition and Conversion3 hours

• An introduction to data collection techniques for
  use in a Geographic Information System. Topics
  include field data collection, correction and
  visualization using a compass, range finder,
  survey transit, the Global Positioning System
  (GPS) and desktop GIS. Evaluation, acquisition,
  manipulation, and implementation of existing data
  sources are presented. Prerequisite GISC 2011.

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GISC2203Fundamentals of Remote Sensing3 hours

• Fundamental properties of the electromagnetic
  spectrum and remote sensing devices. Emphasis is
  placed on the use of remotely sensed data to
  evaluate land use and land change for urban and
  environmental GIS applications. Prerequisite
  MATH 1111.

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GISC2901, 2902, 2903Special Topics in GIS1-3
hours

• Special interest course which may not be
  transferable are offered in response to student
  interest and demand. This is an applied course
  that addresses special topics in Geographic
  Information Systems (GIS) technology. The course
  concentrates on a specific GIS project relevant
  to the student's major. Issues covered include
  project planning, management, and evaluation.
  Course proceeds by arrangement with instructor.
  A written proposal for the study filed with the
  supervising instructor is required.
  Prerequisites GISC 2011.

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GISC2961, 2962, 2963 Service Learning in GIS1-3
hours

• An applied course that addresses special topics
  in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  technology. The course consists of real-world
  project design and implementation through
  service-learning partnerships with local
  government and industry. Students are required
  to work as a team with other students and with
  members of the community. Prerequisite GISC
  1011.

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GISC2983Internship in GIS3 hours

• A work-study program where students work
  part-time to full-time with a community partner.
  A committee representing both partners will
  evaluate student's performance. Prerequisite
  GISC 2011.

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The Georgia Geospatial Literacy Project

• NSF ATE sub-grant
• Led by the State University of West Georgia
• Designed to train USG faculty / staff in GIS and
  remote sensing
• Workshop 2001 West Georgia
• Workshop 2002 Gainesville College
• Provided software, data, and exercises
• Succeeded in placing GIS/RS into courses /
  programs across the system

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NSF K-12 Grant

• Partnered with 9 North Georgia High Schools
• Provided laptops, ArcView software, data, and
  course curricula.
• Two-week workshop with follow-up
• Succeeded in placing GIS at some level at all
  schools
• Spin-offs
• dissemination efforts have resulted in
  partnerships with over three times the teachers
  targeted in the original grant
• Gainesville College is currently producing
  curricula examinations for Forsyth County BOE
  across the system
• GC designed final exams will allow high school
  students to exempt the first course in the GIS
  certificate
• First instance of seamless K2 GIS education in
  Georgia
• Forsyth BOE submitted examinations to GC for 9
  students (May 30, 2005)
• Preparing for national dissemination of K12
  materials

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The Institute for Environmental and Spatial
Analysis (IESA)

• a collaborative of Gainesville College, the
  School of Natural and Health Sciences at North
  Georgia College and State University, and the
  Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the
  University of Georgia
• a teaching and public service resource whose
  focus will be the watershed characterization
  and management.

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IESA GOALS

• encourage interdisciplinary scholarship, and
  greater faculty involvement with service
  communities as called for in a recent Kellogg
  Foundation report,
• work collaboratively with local governments,
  school districts, and state and national agencies
  concerned with water quality to develop training
  and provide service that meets local needs,
• Efforts of the Institute will involve heavy
  collaboration with science faculty from
  neighboring colleges and universities.

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Service Education No-fee service projects for
Spring 2005

• K12 Workshop for Forsyth BOE
• Partnered with Smithgall Arboretum and the
  Atlanta Botanical Gardens to set up GPS
  collection and GIS database protocols
• Created water quality sampling maps for the Lake
  Lanier Association
• Categorized Hall County homes for fire risk
  insurance purposes (Hall County Fire Dept)
• Utility infrastructure mapping (entire city) for
  Montreat, North Carolina
• Set up a survey control network for the UGA
  Marine Institute on Sapelo Island for
  survey-grade monitoring of barrier island
  migration.
• Created historic land-use change maps for Elachee
  Nature Center

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Fee-based projects for Spring 2005

• Created 911 map books and database for Madison
  County
• Updated parcel splits and records for Madison
  County
• Updated parcel splits and records for Jackson
  County

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GIS Resources at GCHuman Resources

• 3 teaching faculty in GIS / RS
• 2 half-time GIS staff members
• Coordinator of GIS Outreach Service
• Coordinator of GIS Research Development
• 1 half-time GIS laboratory aid

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Hardware Software

• 24 3.2 ghz Pentium 4 PCs with 1gigabyte RAM DVD
  Burners
• 24 1.8 ghz Pentium 3 PCs with 768 gigabytes RAM
  DVD Burners
• 2 3.2 ghz Pentium 4 GIS laptop computers
• 3 1.8 ghz Pentium 3 GIS laptop computers
• 2 GIS servers with 2 terrabytes storage
• 30 recreational grade GPS units
• 1 Leica GS20 mapping grade GPS unit
• 2 Recon TDS mapping grade GPS units
• 10 mapping ready Pocket PCs with integrated GPS
• 2 high-end Digital Cameras, 5 consumer grade
  cameras
• Large format scanner (24)
• Large format plotter (36)
• Full suite of ESRI GIS Software
• Highlighted student resources
• Students are allowed 1-2 gb storage space on the
  server
• Remote Desktop Access for all campus software 24
  hours / day

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Keys to Success

• Best IT infrastructure and staff in the southeast
  ( and arguably the country)
• Unified support at all levels of the
  administration
• Different approach growing geospatial education
  from the ground up

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Where to now?

• Addition of courses in GIS programming project
  management
• Require all student projects to be prepared for
  presentation at Georgia Academy of Sciences
• Establish web-based GIS resources and services
  for the entire USG
• Increase support for GeorgiaView through our IT
  infrastructure
• Environmental Science Certificate
• Applied Environmental Spatial Analysis Dual-Degree

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Environmental Science Certificate

• Students that complete the Environmental Science
  certificate will be able to conduct watershed
  investigations on small watersheds and assist as
  a team member in watershed characterization on
  larger, more complex systems.
• Those that complete both the Environmental
  Science and the GIS certificate programs will be
  able to play a pivotal role in the entry,
  analysis, and presentation of the data collected
  by the multi-discipline watershed
  characterization and management team.

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Environmental Science Certificate19 hours

• Wetlands Aquatic Ecology
• Environmental Chemistry
• Hydrology
• Soil Science
• Land Use and Conservation

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DUAL BS DEGREE APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL SPATIAL
ANAYSISGAINESVILLE COLLEGE
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Regents Engineering Transfer Program

• 2 years of pre-engineering Core at GC
• Basic engineering courses at GC, Introduction to
  Engineering, Engineering Graphics, Statics
  Dynamics, and Strength of Materials
• Transfer to Georgia Tech to complete Engineering
  BS.

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RETEP Dual Degree at 4 yr College

• 2 years of pre-engineering Core at GC
• Basic engineering courses at GC, Introduction to
  Engineering, Engineering Graphics, Statics
  Dynamics, and Strength of Materials
• Addition courses in physics, chemistry,
  mathematics or computer science to complete the
  third year.
• Transfer to Georgia Tech to complete Engineering
  BS.
• Upon completion of BS in Engineering, transfer
  courses back to NGCSU and receive a BS in
  Physics, chemistry, mathematics or computer
  science.

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Applied Environmental Spatial Analysis/Geology
Dual Degree

• Complete appropriate 2 year geology core at GC.
• Complete GIS and Environmental Science
  certificates, the third year at GC.
• Transfer to State University of West Georgia and
  complete BS in Geology.
• Transfer course work from West Georgia to GC and
  receive a BS in Applied Spatial analysis.

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Question???

• In addition to geology, what are other
  appropriate degrees to couple with environmental
  spatial analysis?
• What other 4 years colleges are interested in
  participating in the GC environmental spatial
  analysis dual degree?

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Institute for Environmental Spatial
AnalysisGainesville College Spatial Analysis
LaboratoryGCSALhttp//www.gc.peachnet.edu/s
cience/gisLewis Rogers, Director
IESAlrogers_at_gc.peachnet.eduChris Semerjian,
Director GCSALcsemerjian_at_gc.peachent.eduMatt
Miller, Instructor of Physical Geography
GISmmiller_at_gc.peachnet.edu JB Sharma,
Associate Professor of Physics Remote
Sensingjsharma_at_gc.peachnet.edu
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ESCI2010 / 2010LWetlands and Aquatic Ecology

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•  Emphasis will be placed on the ecological
  principles associated with aquatic ecosystem
  structure and function, including vegetation,
  hydrology, water chemistry, soils, fauna,
  elemental cycling, and management strategies of
  freshwater ecosystems.  Field experiences will
  include habitat analysis and sampling,
  limnological sampling, wetland delineation, and
  plant and animal identification. This course will
  utilize traditional classroom meetings and
  numerous field exercises.   Geographic
  Information Systems will be used to analyze some
  data. (Prerequisites BIOL 1107/1107 BIOL
  1108/1108L or BIOL 2210/2210L BIOL 2220/2220L
  GISC 2011/2011L or permission of instructor).

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ESCI2020 / 2020LEnvironmental Chemistry

• Studies related to principles associated with
  Environmental Chemistry and field techniques,
  including chemical properties and processes that
  affect transport, degradation and retention of
  organic and metal pollutants in soil, water and
  air. Emphasis is placed upon field sampling and
  monitoring, sample handling, storage,
  instrumentation, data analysis, GLP and quality
  control. (Prerequisites CHEM  1211/1211L
  1212/1212L or permission of instructor).
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ESCI 2030 / 2030LHydrology

• A multidisciplinary examination of the
  fundamentals of hydrology essential for
  environmental and spatial analysis. Topics of
  hydrologic processes and water balances in the
  landscape, saturated and unsaturated flow in
  soils, drainage, basic aquifer mechanics,
  environmental monitoring techniques, stream flow
  and storm flow dynamics in response to rainfall
  and watershed characteristics. (Prerequisites
  GEOL 1250/1250L or GEOG 1111/1111L CHEM
  1211/1211L, PHYS 1111/1111L or permission of
  instructor). 
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ESCI 2002 / 2002 LFundamental of Soil Science

• This course covers the fundamentals of soil
  formation and morphology, physical, biological
  and chemical properties, soil-water interactions,
  wetlands and hydric soils, soil landscapes, field
  methods and protocols of soil sampling. 
  Fundamentals of soils essential to environmental
  science careers will be discussed.
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ESCI2001 / 2001LLand Use and Conservation

• A presentation of methods for the management of
  runoff, erosion and associated water quality
  issues derived by the ecological assessment of
  agricultural, forestry, rural, and urban land use
  patterns. Techniques of mapping and
  classification of  attributes by field survey and
  Geographic Information Systems are included.
  (Prerequisite GIS 2011/2011L or permission of
  instructor).

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Remote Sensing/ GeorgiaView at Gainesville College

• Introductory Remote Sensing (RS) course developed
  at Gainesville College in 2003 with support from
  Georgia View
• RS course has been taught for the past three
  consecutive years in support of the GC GIS
  certificate program
• 50 students have been trained in RS
• Imagery provided by GA View has been essential
  for RS teaching and student projects

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Georgia View at GC

• Laboratory activities designed to teach
  fundamentals of RS and enable student projects,
  based on Erdas Imagine and Multispec
• Many student projects have been supported by GA
  View and delivered to North Georgia county , city
  govts and organizations, and Fort Valley St. U
• Increasingly, students projects are producing
  deliverable products
• These RS based products increase RS literacy
  among both students and the end users

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GA View projects

• Land cover maps have been delivered to users in
  about 18 North Georgia Counties
• Most of these land cover maps are over two
  separate time periods allowing for a change
  analysis
• Remote Sensing summer science camp for middle
  school kids in summer 04 and one planned for
  summer 05
• Training in Introductory RS for N Georgia
  Extension Agents in Summer 05
• Attendance in National AmericaView (AV) meetings
  and membership in the AV Education Committee
• Outreach to Fort Valley State University

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EO-1 Hyperion Tasking for the Lake Lanier Area

• Lake Lanier is the main source of water for the
  Atlanta Metro area
• Hyperion image will be a valuable resource for
  the Lake Lanier Institute work and the RS course
  at GCPlanned research projects with this image
  are
• Chlorophyll measurement in the Lake
• Mapping plant species in the Elachee Nature
  Center
• Impervious surface mapping in the city of
  Gainesville
• Pine beetle infestation detection
• Hall County Stream Restoration project in the
  Little River Watershed
• Lab activities will be developed with this
  imagery

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Future GA View Projects

• Introductory RS workshop for County Extension
  Agents in South Georgia
• Advanced RS workshop for Extension Agents in N
  Georgia
• RS workshop for N Georgia 4H coordinators and to
  connect RS activities with the GLOBE program
• RS workshop at the American Assoc. of Physics
  Teachers (AAPT), South Atlantic Section meeting
• Work to further connect student projects with end
  users in our service area
• Seek synergies/joint projects with other GAView
  partners