Grant F. Walton CENTER FOR REMOTE SENSING AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS
RUTGERS • The State University of New Jersey
11:372:362  INTERMEDIATE ENVIRONMENTAL GEOMATICS


2008 CALENDAR  
 

Week of:

Monday (meet in computer classroom)
Wednesday (meet in ENR Room 123)
 
January 21st

Class intro  GIS vs Geomatics vs MPLIS vs Geo-spatial technologies, intro to CRSSA,
FAST changing technologies (AV vs. A/I)
Final Projects

January 28th

Exercise 1a: Intro to accounts, home directories, moving and copying, CRSSA Databank
Exercise 1b: Tour of ArcGIS9, basic mapmaking

Chapters 1 and 2
What is GIS? What can it do?
CRSSA Databank

February 4th

Exercise 2: Plotting Along
Map Layout and Sophisticated Output
CH

Chapters 3 and 4
Maps and Representation

February 11th
Exercise 3: A9 Attributes, Tables, Queries, and Relationships

Chapter 5
GeoReferencing

February 18th

Exercise 4: Clipping, Buffering

Chapters 12 and 13
GeoVisualization and mapmaking
February 25th

Exercise 5:Geocoding

Chapters 7 and 8
GIS Software and Data models
March 3rd
Exercise 6: Overlays and Map Algebra

Chapters 8 and 10
Data Collection and Databases
Pre-Exam Review

March 10th

Mid-Term Exam

Chapter 11
Metadata handouts
Distributed GIS, metadata

Project Group Member List Due

March 17th
 
SPRING
BREAK
 

March 24th

Exercise 7: Spatial Analyst
Project proposals due

Chapters 14 and 15
Analysis
 
March 31st
Exercise 8: Digitizing
GIS History Lesson
Real World Applications
 
April 7th

Exercise 9: Network Analyst

Chapters 6 and 16
Modelling and Uncertainty
 
April 14th

Exercise 10: Other Fancy Applications, 3d, GeoStatistical and Viewshed Analysis

Chapters 17 and 18
Managing GIS, the knowledge economy
and In-class work session

Project Deadline - Data Acquisition

 
April 21st

Exercise 11: TBD

Chapters 19 and 20
GIS Institutions
Project Deadline - Analysis and Metadata

 
April 28th

Exercise 12:TBD

Project Deadline - Printing/Plotting
Chapter 21
The Future of GIS
The Big Picture
May 5th
Last Day:
Final Presentations
(Man, you've got)
No Class

(heh, heh. (very old joke))
FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, May 13th, 12-3pm

REMINDER: THIS IS A DYNAMIC MEDIA. ALL SCHEDULING AND OTHER DETAILS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. VISIT OFTEN.


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David Tulloch (dtulloch@crssa.rutgers.edu)