• E-mail Dr. Price with a question or problem

• Syllabus
• Office hours and contact info for lab instructors
• Lab Guidelines
• Assigned lab exercises
• Bringing Excel Data into ArcMap
• Textbook Errata
• Text updates for ArcGIS Version 9
• Proposal evaluation criteria
• Project evaluation criteria
• GIS Code of Ethics (URISA)

LAB SECTION ROSTERS:
 Use these lists to find someone to switch with if you can't make it to your regularly assigned lab.  Notify Dr. Price and the TAs by email to inform them of the change.  If you would like your name removed from this list, please tell Dr. Price.

• Guide to GIS data at SDSMT 
  • Download Word document

   

• Supplemental Lecture Notes (download as PowerPoint 7.0 documents)
• If it says it can't find it, it probably hasn't been posted yet.  Try later.  If it still can't find it, tell Dr. Price!
• 0.  What is GIS?
• 1. How does GIS work?
• 2. How does ArcGIS work?
• 3. Maps and Projections
• 4. Vector Data Structures
• 5. Raster Data Structures
• There is no lecture #6.
• 7. Queries and Data Exploration
• 8.  Map Overlay
• 9.  Data Mangement:  Creating Data
• 10. Topography and Interpolation Analysis
• 11.  Data Management:  Getting Data
 
• Weekly Assignments
• The syllabus lists which chapter we are doing each week.  For each chapter you have the following assignments.
  •     Chapter Review Questions (after Skills section) due at the beginning of lab.
  •     Weekly Quiz on the previous chapter given at the beginning of each lab.
  •     Exercises due at the beginning of the NEXT week's lab.
• For example, if we are doing Chapter 3 this week, then Chapter 3 Review Questions and Chapter 2 Exercises are due at the beginning of your lab this week.  You will also have a quiz on Chapter 2 at the start of lab.  Chapter 3 Exercises would be due the following week.
• A late penalty of 10%  per week is applied to late assignments.
• Quizzes are OVER 15 minutes after lab starts.  If you are late, you miss the quiz.  No make-up quizzes are given.  Everyone gets 1 free missed quiz; after that they count against your grade (slightly).
• All work must be typewritten.  No handwritten work will be accepted.
• You are free to consult with your classmates when doing your exercises and questions; however, all work submitted must be your own.
 

• Rockylink Spatial Data Source Page by J. Kerski
• U.S. Geological Survey GeoData:  online digital data
• U.S.G.S. online Landsat TM data
• GIS online! at the City of Ontario GIS Server
• GIS online!  Ecotourism Interactive GIS at the University of Adelaide, Austrailia
• University of Minnesota GIS/Remote Sensing Home Page

GIS Jobs Clearinghouse

Tuesdays 9:15am - 12 noon   MI-325

Course Project:  To evaluate and revise the U.S.Forest Service wildlife habitat model (HABCAP) and implement a new version using ArcObjects Developer.

• E-mail Dr. Price with a question or problem

• Syllabus
 
• HABCAP information (ftp site)
• Schedules of Participants
• Papers

CLASS MEETING TIME:
Friday 3:00 - 3:30 pm 

Use Office Hours for Help.

Please be sure to meet the deadlines given in RoadMap to Research Success!

• Email Dr. Price

• Syllabus
• Guide to Senior Research (download Word document)
• RoadMap to Research Success:  Checklists