NCSU GIS/MEA582:
Geospatial Modeling and Analysis

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
January 12 Course Syllabus
1. Geospatial Data Introduction, Getting Started with Open Source GIS		 January 21
January 19 2 Geospatial Data: Models and Visualization January 28
January 26 3.A Geospatial Analysis: Global, zonal and focal operations, map algebra February 11
February 2 3.B Geospatial Analysis: Buffers, cost surfaces, least cost path
Read Project proposal instructions, project resources, think about your topic 		February 11
February 9 4.A Spatial interpolation: methods
Project proposal (2 pages), submit on Moodle in the Project Proposal section (PDF file named LastnameFirstname_Proposal.pdf.Post project title on Project Forum. 		Proposal:
February 25,
Assignment:
March 4
February 17 Wellness Break
Explore Project resources
February 16 4.B Spatial interpolation: splines
Work on the project: acquire data (see data providers), process into a consistent data set 		March 4
February 23 5.A Geomorphometry: Terrain modeling
Work on the project: analyze and visualize data, start developing workflow 		March 25
March 2 5.B Geomorphometry: Spatial and temporal terrain analysis
Work on the project: Test preliminary workflow for your analysis/modeling, identify missing data or tools 		March 25
March 11-15 Midterm exam
  • Handled by Moodle, no on-campus presence is needed
  • Questions with instructions will be provided through Moodle Announcement on Wednesday, March 11 around 10 am
  • Answers are due on Sunday, March 15 at 11.45 pm, uploaded to Moodle (see Moodle Midterm section) as a PDF file named LastnameFirstname_Exam.pdf
March 15
March 16 Spring Break
March 23 6. Viewshed, solar energy potential analysis
Work on the project: post a brief project progress report on the Project Discussion Forum by March 30 		April 8
March 30 7.A Flow routing, watershed analysis
Project: Complete preliminary results, evaluate what is missing or causing problems
Spring 2026 project titles 		April 22
April 6 7.B Introduction to GIS-based Modeling of Geospatial Processes, Hydrologic and Erosion modeling
Project: Work on results, visualization, statistical summaries, graphical output 		April 22
April 13 TBD.
Work on your project, prepare presentation
April 20 Work on project presentations and paper Presentation: April 29

paper May 3
April 27 Post Project presentations, finish and submit project paper Last day to submit a project paper:
May 3

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