NCSU GIS 714:
Geospatial Computing and Simulations

Schedule

Schedule will be adjusted as needed during the semester.
Week Lecture/Assignment Topic and Project Tasks Assignment due date
January 10 Course logistics and Course Moodle site

1.A Introduction to geocomputation: Foundations
Think about dissertation related project proposal and discuss it with your advisor

February 7
January 17 1.B Dynamic spatial phenomena
Work on dissertation related project proposal, submit it February 7
February 7
January 24,25 CSDMS Roadshow, Wednesday all day, Thursday afternoon
2.B Open source software and version control system
n/a
January 31 NO CLASS,
Work on project proposal and its 3 minute presentation
optional topic: 2.A Data simulation
February 7
February 7 Project proposal 3 minute presentations
3.A Surface water: geometry driven simulations of flow and flooding
February 28
February 14 3.B Surface water: process based simulations
Continue working on the project: perform modeling, analysis, write draft paper section on methods
February 28
February 21 3.C Geostatistical simulations and error propagation
Continue working on the project
February 28
February 28 4. Tangible Landscape as a geosimulation environment,
Work on the project and outline your progress lightning talk
March 20
March 6 4. Tangible Landscape as a geosimulation environment,
Work on the project and outline your progress lightning talk, include TL application
March 20
March 13-17 Spring Break
March 20 Project progress talks: II 10 min., include Title, Introduction with objectives, Study site, Data, Methods, Preliminary and Expected results, Challenges; Tangible Landscape application demonstrations
March 27 5.A Spread simulations
Work on projecti: develop workflows, process data
April 17
April 3 5.B Urban growth simulations
Continue working on the project: analyze, evaluate and visualize results
April 17
April 10 5.C Urban growth simulations on HPC
Continue working on the project: prepare your presentation
April 17
April 17 2023 Project presentations I
Prepare project presentation and write draft of the paper
Paper due April 29
April 24
Finish project paper following the instructions and upload it to Moodle as LastnameFirstname_Paper.pdf
Paper due April 29
na Open topics
Agent based modeling
Modeling with kernel densities in social sciences
na