Schedule and links to material for the Distance Education section
Schedule will be adjusted as needed during the semester. Assignments, which are due at the same date, should be delivered in a single report.
Week | Lecture/Assignment Topic and Project Tasks | Assignment due date | |
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January 7-13 |
Introduction to the Course
(Course instructions, management and resources)
1. Geospatial Data Acquisition, Getting Started with Open Source GIS |
January 16 | |
January 14 - 20 | 2.A Geospatial Data: Models | January 30 | |
January 21-27 | 2.B Geospatial Data: Display and visualization | January 30 | |
January 28 - February 3 |
3.A Geospatial Analysis: Global, zonal and focal operations, map algebra
Read Project proposal instructions, project resources, think about your topic |
February 13 | |
February 4-10 |
3.B Geospatial Analysis: Buffers, cost surfaces, least cost path
Project proposal (2 pages), submit on Moodle in the Project Proposal section (PDF file named LastnameFirstname_Proposal.pdf )
see Proposal instructions, project resources |
February 13 | |
February 11-17 | 4.A Spatial interpolation: methods | February 27 | |
February 18-24 |
4.B Spatial interpolation: splines
Work on the project: acquire data (see data providers), process into a consistent data set |
February 27 | |
February 25 - March 2 |
5.A Geomorphometry: Terrain modeling
Work on the project: analyze and visualize data, start developing workflow |
March 12 | |
March 3-9 |
5.B Geomorphometry: Spatial and temporal terrain analysis
Work on the project: Test preliminary workflow for your analysis/modeling, identify missing data or tools Read information about upcoming midterm exam |
March 12 | |
March 10-17 | Spring Break | ||
March 20-22 | Midterm exam
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March 22 | |
March 24-30 |
6. Viewshed, solar energy potential analysis
Work on the project: post a brief project progress report on the Project Discussion Forum by April 7 |
April 2 | |
March 31 - April 6 |
7.A Flow routing, watershed analysis
Project: Complete preliminary results, evaluate what is missing or causing problems Fall 2024 project titles |
April 16 | |
April 7-13 |
7.B Introduction to GIS-based Modeling of Geospatial Processes, Hydrologic and Erosion modeling
Project: Work on results, visualization, statistical summaries, graphical output |
April 16 | |
April 14-20 | Work on your project | ||
April 21-27 | Project: post presentation recordings, finish project paper
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presentation April 23 paper April 30 |
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April 28 - May 4 | Finish and submit project paper | April 30 |