AG1323 GIS for the Built Environment

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2011-01-18: Course schedule updated for 2011

Course Description

This is an advanced GIS course, which aims to provide students with a thorough understanding of the capabilities of GIS, as well as the practical skills to carry out GIS analysis in different contexts.

The course aims to introduce students to how geographic information systems (GIS) store, process, and present geographic, i.e., data pertaining to the surface of the earth, and how this technology helps us analyze spatial phenomena of urban and region scale. On the completion of this course, students should acquire basic theoretical understanding of GIS as well as practical skills of using GIS software in various contexts.

To pass this course, the students are required to: - pass all the exercises, - pass the written exam - pass the project.

Laboratory exercises

All exercises will be held in GISlab computer room, located in the Geoinformatics corridor at DKV 30. Students will get access to this corridor and the computer room when the course starts. Exercises will be conducted using ESRI’s ArcGIS 9.3.

Exercises will be randomly assessed.

Bonus points toward the exam will be given to students who submit all their lab/proejct reports before the deadlines.

Final project

One of the requirements for this course is for students to design and carry out their own GIS project. The students find and formulate a geographic problem, collect relevant data, and solve it using those techniques learned in class and laboratory. The project proposal must be approved by the instructor by March 2. The final report must be submitted to BILDA by March 17, 2011.


Grades A-Fx

___________________________________________________________________________ Lecture schedule   (Subject to change)
Date/Time	Room	Topic	Chapters in course book	Lecturer
110118 10-12	Q26	Introduction	HCC, Ch. 1 (18-19) & Ch. 9	TS
110120 10-12	V35	Spatial Data Modeling	HCC, Ch. 3 (72-87, 97-99)	TS
110124 10-12	L22	Sources of Geographic Data	HCC, Ch. 2	TS
110201 10-12	Q26	Spatial Query on Vector Data	HCC, Ch. 4	TS
110207 10-12	L22	Operations on Raster Data	HCC, Ch. 4	TS
110214 10-12	L22	Cartographic Modeling	HCC, Ch. 7	TS
110221 10-12	V23	Modeling & Visualizing 3D Data	HCC, Ch. 3 (87-94, 99-100) & Ch. 6 (194-213)	TS
110301 10-12	V23	Network Analysis	HCC, Ch. 1 (94-97) & Ch. 6 (214-215)	TS
110308 10-12	Q26	Conclusion		TS
110317 14-18	TBA	EXAM

___________________________________________________________________________ Exercises   (Subject to change)
Date/Time	Place	Exercise	Deadline
110120 13-17	GISLab	(E1) Introduction to ArcMap and ArcCatalog (not obl. if you did this exercise before)	110127
110126 13-17	GISLab	(E2) Geocoding	110202
110202 13-17	GISLab	(E3) Spatial Query	110209
110208 13-17	GISLab	(E4) ArcGIS Spatial Analysis Extension	110215
110215 13-17	GISLab	(E5a) Cartographic Modeling and Suitability Analysis	110301
110222 13-17	GISLab	(E5b) Cartographic Modeling and Suitability Analysis	110301
110301 13-17	GISLab	(E6a) Network Analysis	110309
110302 13-17	GISLab	(E6b) Network Analysis	110309
110308 13-17	GISLab	(E7) ArcGIS Tracking Analyst Extension (+3D Visualization)	110315
110309 13-17	GISLab	Project session

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