GEO 265 Geographic Information Systems GIS Practicum

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GEO 265 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) -
Practicum

• Summer Term 2002
• Section 001 MTWRF 0800-0950, Educ 126
• Goal Get an easy 3-credit A
• Price Think spatially
• This course will provide you with basic
  understanding of spatial information, and
  hands-on experience using the popular ArcView GIS
  package for spatial data input, analysis and
  display.

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• Instructor Ofer Heyman, 223 Wilkinson Hall
• heymano_at_geo.orst.edu
• Instructor Pertinent Background
• From Israel Ph.D. program in GISc/RS Dr. K. and
  R,W,G
• B.Sc. and M.Sc. from TAU
• Instructor for GEO 265 and GEO 301 at OSU
  Geosciences
• TA for GEO 580 ArcGIS labs
• TA for RS, DIP at TAU Geophysics
• GK-12 Fellow
• 8 years at Ofek Aerial Photography and Mapping,
  Ltd.
• RA at NASA ARC
• Examples
• Class list No-show drop

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Syllabus

• Class Site
• Syllabus file
• Tentative Calendar
• Assignments
• Lectures
• Black Board

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Expectations

• Gain
• Feel comfortable with ArcView as a mapping and
  spatial analysis tool
• Understand and solve real-world problems
• Key
• Think spatially and communicate as a professional
• Pay
• Hard work
• Think! Its not merely a button pushing class
• Frustration curve

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Geographic Information Systems
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The Transparencies Analog

• Abstractions of the real world
• Feature Data Point, Line, Polygon

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Why Use GIS?

• To explore relationships between features.
• To seek patterns that may not be apparent without
  using advanced techniques of query, selection,
  analysis, and display.
• To support decision makings.

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ArcView Basics
Project (the foundation. Contains the documents)
Views
display and query spatial data. contains multiple
themes (i.e. layers of data).
compile maps for printing
the actual data. Contains geographical features
of the same kind (points, lines or polygons) and
their attributes
contain the attribute data of a theme