Geographic Information Systems, Fall 2003

This is the home page for AWER 4930, Geographic Inforamtion Systems, which meets Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 9am, BNR 314.

The course is taught by Paul Box.

The primary goal of this course is technical training in GIS. This will include lecturs on many of the theoretical aspects of GIS, such as data structures, databases, cartography, and spatial analysis, however the greatest amount of learning will come from the hands-on work in lab classes, which will meet once weekly.

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Here is the course syllabus.
Here are the course lectures.
Check here for your class information. If this information is not correct, please contact me immediately-- this is where I will be looking for your assignments and informing you of the results.
The GIS lab page

Midterm Exam

There is no final exam

(unless you want one...)

Announcements

Homework Assignment 1, due Sept. 9
Homework Assignment 2, due Sept. 12
Homework Assignment 3, due Sept. 26
Homework Assignment 4, due Oct. 10
Lab 5, part II
Homework Assignment 5 due Nov. 14
Homework Assignment 6 due Nov 14 (at bottom of Lab 7)
Homework Assignment 7, due Nov. 21
Homework Assignment 8, Due Nov. 29
Homework 9, due Dec. 5
Homework 10, due Dec. 5

General GIS links

If you find other useful GIS-related links, I will add them to this list.

Here is the usenet group dedicated to GIS and spatial data. Lots of good GIS discussions!
- I would also encourage you to sign up for the Utah GIS discussion list, which has discussions of GIS relevant to Utah (including employment opportunities)
Hay también una lista en español qué trata de SIG para la comunidad de habla hispana. Es la lista de mercator, manejado por el organización de rediris.
The Global Gazateer has a list of thousands of cities around the world, with their latitudes and longitudes. They also generate nice little maps!
Here is the NCGIA core curriculum, which is the NSF's "official" site for geographic information science.
Here is the Environmental Systems Research Institute, makers of Arc/INFO and Arcview. They have the virtual GIS campus, which is a great self-teacher in GIS.
Here is an earthquake list from the University of Utah seismic center. We have reformatted the data into a comma-delimited file.

GIS job announcements

government job listings
gisjobs.com has published a survey of GIS wages; you should see where you stand in the scheme of things!

Paul Box