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EGEO-350 Readings - Spring 2012

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READING A: Intro to GIS

REQUIRED:

What is GIS? (GIS Lounge)

What is GIS? (ESRI)

The Components of GIS Evolve

ArcGIS Resource Center Essentials Library

    - What is GIS? - all entries

    - What is ArcGIS?/ What is ArcGIS

    - What is ArcGIS?/ What is ArcGIS Desktop?

Users Guide to the Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL)

OPTIONAL:

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Chapter 2, Section f) - Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Michael Pidwirny

 

READING 1: Entities and Attributes, Raster and Vector

REQUIRED:

USGS Overview

An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) (Pages 1-13 only) - Harold Reynolds

Introduction to GIS - Univ. of Melborne, F. Escobar, et. al. - skim over technical parts

OPTIONAL:

Getting Started with ArcGIS - U of Arkansas Tutorial 1

 

READING 2: Symbology and Data Management

REQUIRED:

 Introduction to Map Design - ESRI

ArcGIS Resource Center Essentials Library

    Professional Library/Mapping and Visualization/Working with Layers/Displaying Layers/

                - A quick tour of displaying layers

                - Drawing a layer using a single symbol

                - Drawing a layer using categories

    Professional Library/Mapping and Visualization/Working with Layers/Displaying Layers/Drawing features to show quantities/

                - All entries except  pie charts, bar and column charts, and stacked charts

    Professional Library/Mapping and Visualization/Working with Layers/Interacting with layer contents/

               -  Identifying features

                - Selecting features interactively

                - Using Select by Location

                - Using Select by Attributes

OPTIONAL:

Manipulating Display in ArcMap (symbolization) - U of Arkansas Tutorial 2

Querying Data in ArcMap - U of Arkansas Tutorial 3

Resource:

·         File Mgmt - Freelan

·         Portable Maps & Data - Freelan

·         Data Flow Diagrams - Freelan

·         GIS Cookbook (Section 3 Making a Choropleth Map) - CSISS (UCSB)

 

READING 3-4: Coordinate Systems and Data Models

REQUIRED:

Map Projections - University of Nebraska

ESRI Map Projection course - read the first free module, exercise is voluntary

Map Projections from the Geo-web Guru

About Coordinate Systems (Using ArcMap, Sec. 2, Chap. 4, pp. 123-126) - ESRI
        Note: Using ArcMap was written for ArcGIS 9.2 - very little of the details in this chapter have changed in 10...

ArcGIS Resource Center Essentials Library

    Professional Library/Data Management/Using ArcCatalog/

            - What is ArcCatalog?

            - A quick tour of ArcCatalog

OPTIONAL: 

Mathematics of Map Projections

Coordinate Systems