Wk

Lecture Topics

Readings and Prep for Class

Assignments/Exams 
1

GIS and Remote Sensing Introduced
--Types of data
--Data vs Metadata
--Projections and coordinates
Digital Topgraphy
-- DEMs, tins, DLGs, DTMs

Reading:
ESRI texts located in
Q:\Courses\geolgis\ESRI_Library\ArcGIS_Desktop
What is ArcGIS? (p1-13)
Getting started with ArcGIS (p5-13)
Using ArcMap (p3-11)

Tutorial for Week 1

Lab: Importing Data & Map Scale Analysis

2

Digital Topography (continued)
-- map slope, aspect, curvature
-- profiles and viewsheds
-- perspectives and shaded relief 


Reading: TBA

Tutorials

GIS Case Study and Internet Data Retrieval (instructions here) Due Wed 1/14 for discussion at class time
Lab : Digitizing
Firday: first quiz
3

Spatial Interpretations
-- density slices
-- category reclasses
-- map overlays
-- spatial querying
-- Boolean logic

Reading and
Tutorials


Task: Watershed maps
4 Location Analyses
-- proximity and buffers
-- watersheds
-- friction, least-cost paths
-- raster-vector conversion

Reading: TBA
tutorials

Task: DEM Manipulation; forward modeling debris flow hazard
Quiz Friday.
5

Neighborhood Analyses 
-- weighting, simplifying & smoothing
-- interpolations, splines
-- kriging & directional filters

 .Reading: TBA Task: Inverse Modeling based on digitized geology and actual landslides
6 Error and Probability
-- probability asasessment
-- fuzzy logic
-- predictive modeling 		 Reading: TBA

Task: least cost paths
Quiz Friday

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7

Shape Characterization
--size, shape and connectivity of patches
--shape and lengths of lines
GIS Modeling
--python scripts
Science, Society and Arts on Friday

Read these sites:
fuzzy logic intro
fire hazard fuzzy logic

 Task: Sinkhole Probability
8

Remote Sensing
-- data collection, data types
-- EM Spectrum, radiation & earth absorbance/reflectance
-- simulated and false color images
--LUTs and band correlation

Week 7 tutorials
Reading: TBA

Task: finished probability lab
9 Processing Remotely Sensed Data
--contrast stretches
&haze correction
--ratios
 Reading: TBA

start desgining your Final Project
Lit Review: case studies of sensor types (due Mon 3/16)

Task: image enhancement (instructions)
(notes page)
10 Advanced Image Processing
--decorrelation RGB-HSI
--principal components
--change detection
--rectification
 Reading: TBA

Task: Image Classification Part1
simple discriminants, unsupervised classification & geolocation
Final Project Algorithm is due Friday of this week (not perfect, just in)

11 Image Classification
--filtering
--simple discriminants
--supervised and unsupervised
--verification		 Reading: TBA Task: Image Classification Part2
Supervised Classfication, exporting to ArcGIS.
Final Project Data Sources identified and turnin by Friday. this wek
12 Case Studies & Final Project work  
GPS demonstration lab
 

Final Exam