GIS-245 Applications Geographic Info Systems
Geographic Information Systems are critical to understanding environmental change and restoration. Building on the fundamentals learned in Introduction to GIS, this course teaches data analysis, presentation and data management skills, and field mapping skills. Students will use conservation-based examples to construct and display maps that are useful in environmental decision making.
Prerequisite
CON-241
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Course Outline
Department
Environmental Conservation and Horticulture
Course Description
Geographic Information Systems are critical to understanding environmental change and restoration. Building on the fundamentals learned in Introduction to GIS, this course teaches data analysis, presentation and data management skills, and field mapping skills. Students will use conservation-based examples to construct and display maps that are useful in environmental decision making.
Credit Hours
3Semester(s) Course Will Be Offered
Spring
Course Learning Outcomes
- Analyze spatial and temporal environmental data.
- Create and present maps showing spatial environmental data that clearly communicate results in a way that shows knowledge of industry standards.
- Practice field collection and interpretation of spatial data including project planning; and data collection, management and presentation.
Topic Outline
- 1. Spatial data use and management
- a. Georeferencing images
- b. Coordinate systems and projections revisited
- c. Geodatabases
- d. New data types (DEMs, LiDAR, and orthographic imagery)
- 2. Telling stories with maps
- a. ArcGIS StoryMaps
- b. Online interactive maps
- c. Showing land use change maps over time
- 3. Mapping in the field
- a. ArcGIS Online
- b. ArcGIS Field Maps
- c. ArcGIS Survey123
- 4. Data analysis
- a. Database queries
- b. Interpolation
- c. Importing XY data
- d. Watershed delineation
- e. Image interpretation and analysis