The University of Louisville

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The University of Louisville Center for
GIS Overview
Robert W. Forbes, Associate Director University
of Louisville - Center for GIS
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The mission of the University of Louisville
Center for Geographic Information Systems is to
provide instruction, applications, and research
in geographic information systems technology.
The resources of the Center for GIS are
available to professional staff, students, and
faculty to provide service and products to
individuals and agencies of the University, and
the local and state community.
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GIS in Education

• Part of Commonwealth of Kentucky
• ESRI Site License Program
• Unlimited licensing on most ESRI software
• Complimentary ESRI User Conference registrations
• Total annual cost 125,000 (approx.)
• Each university price based on number of FTEs.
• UofL 2007 cost 16,740.00
• Users on campus share the cost
• ULCGIS provides tech support
• Major users are Civil Engineering, Urban
  Studies
• Institute, Medical School, Biology, Geography

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What We Do

• Primary GIS Point of Contact for UofL Faculty,
  Staff and Students
• Handle software installation and licensing
• Consult and Contract in/out UofL
• Provide Workshops (ESRI other)
• Research incorporation
• Poster printing
• We are self supporting!

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GIS in Education
ESRI Authorized Training Program Introduction
to ArcGIS I 2-Day introductory workshop held 3
times per year http//www.ulcgis.org/arcgisI.html

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GIS in Education
BS in Geography with concentration in
GIS
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New for 2009!!!
Masters Degree in Applied Geography
The Master of Science in Applied Geography is a
36-hour program with a required thesis. It
includes 15 hours of foundation courses, 15
hours of electives, and a six-hour thesis.
Eighteen hours of coursework will be at the 600
level.
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Required Core Courses (Foundations) GEOG 600
History and Philosophy of Geography GEOG 640
Approaches and Methods in Applied Geography GEOG
641 Research Design and Proposal Development
GEOG 656 Advanced Quantitative Methods GEOG
660 Qualitative Methods 15 hours Electives
GEOG 521 Medical Geography GEOG 522 GIS and
Public Health GEOG 528 Urban Geography GEOG
530 Transportation Geography GEOG 531/631
Urban Demography GEOG 535 Retail Site Analysis
GEOG 555 Remote Sensing Image Processing
GEOG 557 Geographic Information Systems GEOG
561 Urban Environment GEOS 565 Hazards GEOS
564 Hydrology GEOG 570 Geography of Gender Up
to 2 outside courses _at_ 500- or 600-level (with
approval) 15 hours Thesis 698 Thesis 6 hours

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GIS Outreach JCPS GIS Program
History and Highlights

• 2001 Program begins via JCPS School-to-Career
  office
• Audwin Helton of SDI
• Participating schools Central, Doss, Eastern,
  Fairdale, Jeffersontown
• Teach the Teachers! Teach the Students! Teachers
  teach the students!
• Articulation Agreement Test out Geog157 and
  Geog357 at UofL
• Annual Professional Development GIS workshops
  for faculty
• Annual Map Showcase for students

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Testing out at UofL

• Earn credit without attending class
• Two exams Geography 157 and Geography 357

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Geography 157 exam

• GUI familiarity buttons, menus, etc.
• ArcMap vs ArcCatalogue
• Adding layers
• Symbology options
• Geoprocessing clip, buffer, dissolve, union
• Data types vector vs raster
• Basic Table operations
• Selecting by attributes
• Map output

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Geography 557 exam

• All of Geography 157
• Advanced data formats
• Advanced Table manipulation
• Digitizing
• GPS
• Scale
• Spatial Referencing
• Downloading GIS data
• GPS
• LOJIC data
• Geocoding
• Using the Spatial Analyst

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2008 JCPS Map Showcase
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JCPS/UofL Annual Map Showcase Win Prizes!
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JCPS/UofL Map Showcase
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Map Showcase Student Maps
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Map Showcase Student Maps
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Map Showcase Student Maps
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Map Showcase Student Maps
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Map Showcase Student Maps
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