GEO 580 Advanced Applications of GIS in the Geosciences

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GEO 580AdvancedApplications of GIS in the
Geosciences

• Monday/Wednesday
• 600 - 730 p.m.
• Cordley 3003
• 4 credits

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Dawn Wright
dawn_at_dusk.geo.orst.edu 737-1229
Office Hours Mondays/Wednesdays 114 Wilkinson
Hall 200- 300 p.m.
TA
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What Will You Learn?

• Theoretical
• broaden base of GIS theory established in GEO
  465/565
• build entry points into GIS research literature
• cover sets of topics in GIS research practice,
  with a focus on the geosciences / coastal
  marine sciences

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What Will You Learn?

• Theoretical
• consider expanded capabilities of GIS in more
  detail and relate them to YOUR current work
• rethink the characteristics of spatial data, of
  data analysis procedures
• all about putting technology to work EFFECTIVELY

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What Will You Learn?

• Technical
• Practice w/ WindowsXP as a working environment
  for GIS
• build a base of knowledge in ArcGIS 8
• apply GIS methods to problem-solving / project
  completion
• work toward professional level GIS skills

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Textbooks

• Required
• Geographic Information
• Systems and Science
• by Longley, Goodchild,
• Maguire, Rhind, 2001

Modeling Our World by Zeiler, 2001
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Optional Textbook
Spatial Reasoning for Effective GIS by Joseph
Berry, 1995
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Required Project - 2 options

• Option 1
• Tuesday labs in ArcGIS
• ArcGIS data models, spatial analysis, networks,
  surfaces, digitizing, metadata
• Take FINAL exam
• Option 2
• apply course concepts to your own project (thesis
  or dissertation)
• poster or web presentation during Dead Week
• No FINAL

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Project Options (cont.)

• dusk.geo.orst.edu/buffgis/project.html
• Select option by end of Add-Drop period
• Friday, April 12th
• Classroom Access Code
• 0573563

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Milestones

• Required intro. exercise in ArcGIS - April 19th
• Mid-Term exam - April 29th
• Final exam - June 10th, 800-1000 p.m.

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Grading

• ArcGIS exercise (lab 1) - 10
• Mid-Term - 25
• Project Option 1 / Final - 45 / 20
• Project Option 2 / Presentation - 45 / 20

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Survival Skills

• Follow lecture material
• Keep up with reading in BOTH textbooks
• Proficiency in Windows, ArcGIS, ArcView 3 and
  HTML
• Build self-help capability
• Share resources

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Resources

• Yourself

Web site http//dusk.geo.orst.edu/buffgis
Online documentation
Me!
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GEO 580 Discussion Board

• Please log in and subscribe

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Opportunities

• ESRI User Conference. Every year in San Diego.
• regional meetings as well
• User Conference Student Asst. Program
• www.esri.com/company/jobs/uc_student_prog.html
• Applications due by April 12, 2002
• NE Oregon GIS Conference
• May 24, Pendleton (abstracts due March 15)

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ESRI Virtual CampusFREE subscriptions to OSU
students

• campus.esri.com
• ArcInfo --gt ArcGIS 8
• ArcView Basics
• AV Image Analysis
• AV 3D Analyst
• AV Model Builder
• ArcIMS
• Visual Basic
• all GIS Technology courses

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What Kind of Jobs Exist in GIS?

• (1) System developers
• high level of technical skills
  
• programmers in C, Java, Visual Basic
  
• 1,000 people
• (2) System maintainers
• moderate technical skills
  
• programmers in UML, Visio, CASE, Visual Basic
  
• 10,000 people

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What Kind of Jobs Exist in GIS?

• (3) System users
• modest technical skills
  
• know how to use the tools
• familiar with the technical issues
• know the application domains
• work for univ., corp., govts.
• 100,000 people
• (4) General public
• minimal technical skills
  
• Know how to use some tools
  
• 1,000,000 people

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Success as (3) System User?

• the basic principles (GIS education)
• still there when the software changes
• how to be a demanding skeptic
• demand better documentation
• reliable and accurate results
• fixes for bugs
• what GIS means
• what the data mean in the real world
• what operations mean

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Hands-on practical training?

• software changes often (every 2 years)
• hands-on experience
• reinforces basic principles
• encourages you to be a demanding skeptic
• encourages thinking about what GIS means

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ARC/INFO, ArcInfo, ArcGIS

• the workhorse of GIS
• the engine behind ArcView
• command-line interface
• required syntax
• difficult to use

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ArcInfo 8
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ArcInfo 8
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ArcInfo 8

• new easy-to-use version
• several hundred person-years invested
• complete rewrite, first since 1980
• version 7 becomes ArcInfo Workstation, the core
  of ArcGIS
• ArcInfo Desktop, WIMP, wizards
• ArcView is now a subset in ArcGIS 8, along with
  ArcSDE, ArcIMS, ArcObjects, etc.
• expect bugs
• First labs in ArcGIS