Schedule and links to the course material
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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| August 19 |
Course Syllabus
1. Geospatial Data Acquisition, Getting Started with Open Source GIS |
August 26 | |
| August 26 | 2.AB Geospatial Data: Models and Visualization | September 2 | |
| September 2 | 3.A Geospatial Analysis: Global, zonal and focal operations, map algebra | September 17 | |
| September 9 |
3.B Geospatial Analysis: Buffers, cost surfaces, least cost path
Read Project proposal instructions, project resources, think about your topic |
September 17 | |
| September 16 | Wellness Break
Explore Project resources |
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| September 23 |
4.A Spatial interpolation: methods
Project proposal (2 pages), submit on Moodle in the Project Proposal section (PDF file named LastnameFirstname_Proposal.pdf)
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Proposal: September 30, Assignment: October 7 |
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| September 30 |
4.B Spatial interpolation: splines
Work on the project: acquire data (see data providers), process into a consistent data set |
October 7 | |
| October 7 |
5.A Geomorphometry: Terrain modeling
Work on the project: analyze and visualize data, start developing workflow |
October 28 | |
| October 13-14 | Fall Break | ||
| October 21 |
5.B Geomorphometry: Spatial and temporal terrain analysis
Work on the project: Test preliminary workflow for your analysis/modeling, identify missing data or tools |
October 28 | |
| October 28 |
6. Viewshed, solar energy potential analysis
Work on the project: post a brief project progress report on the Project Discussion Forum by November 4 |
November 4 |
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| November 4 |
7.A Flow routing, watershed analysis
Project: Complete preliminary results, evaluate what is missing or causing problems Fall 2025 project titles |
November 18 | |
| November 11 |
7.B Introduction to GIS-based Modeling of Geospatial Processes, Hydrologic and Erosion modeling
Project: Work on results, visualization, statistical summaries, graphical output |
November 18 | |
| November 18 | Work on your project, prepare presentation | On campus presentation: November 25 |
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| November 25 | Project presentations, post presentation recordings, work on project paper
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Presentation: December 2 Paper: December 8 |
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| November 26-28 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| December 2 | Project presentations, Finish and submit project paper | Last day to submit a project paper:
December 8 |