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Required Texts


Amazon logo Ormsby, et al. Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 2001. ISBN: 1879102897.

Amazon logo Worboys, Michael F. GIS: A Computing Perspective. London, UK: Taylor & Francis, 1995. ISBN: 0748400656.

Amazon logo Monmonier, Mark. How to Lie with Maps. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN: 0226534200 (Hardcover). Amazon logo ISBN: 0226534219 (Paperback). (The 1991 first edition, Amazon logo ISBN: 0226534154, is also fine.)

Amazon logo Longley, Goodchild, Maguire, and Rhind. Geographic Information Systems and Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. ISBN: 0471892750.

Amazon logo Peng, and Tsou. Internet GIS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. ISBN: 0471359238.

Amazon logo O'Sullivan, David, and David Unwin. Geographic Information Analysis. Hobokey, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. ISBN: 0471211761.

Readings from required texts will be referred to by the author's last name in the table below.


SES #TOPICSREADINGS
Lec 1Introduction to the Class and GIS

GIS Principles and Methods

WinAthena Introduction (Required for Students who did not do CRN Computing Orientation)
NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIScience - Unit 2: What is GIS?

Worboys. pp. 1-15.
Lab 1ArcGIS Basics (Introduction to ArcGIS, Paper Output)Ormsby, et al. "Introducing ArcGIS Desktop." Chapter 2.

———. "Exploring ArcMap." Chapter 3.
Lec 2GIS Principles and MethodsMonmonier. "Elements of the Map." Chapter 2.

———. "Map Generalization: Little White Lies and Lots of Them." Chapter 3.

Longley, et al. "Georeferencing." Chapter 4.

Ormsby, et al. "Classifying features and rasters." Chapter 6.

———. "Labeling features." Chapter 7.
Lab 2Thematic Mapping in ArcMap (Symbolization, Exploratory Vs. Explanatory Mapping)
Lec 3Database Fundamentals (Relational Basics, Queries, Joins), Coordinate Systems, and ProjectionsWorboys. pp. 45-61.

Longley, et al. "Representing Geography." Chapter 3.

Ferreira, J., Jr. "Database Management Tools for Planning." Journal of the American Planning Association (Winter 1990): 78-84.
Lab 3Database Operations in ArcGIS (Spatial Selection, Query Selection, Tabular Joins, Spatial Joins)Ormsby, et al. "Data Queries." Chapter 8.

———. "Joining and relating tables." Chapter 9.
Lec 4More on Database Management: Introduction to SQL

Geodatabase

Handling One-to-Many Relationships
Worboys. pp. 61-67.

Peng, and Tsou. pp. 230-237.
Lab 4Database Aggregation, SQL, and ChartsOrmsby, et al. "Building Geodatabases." Chapter 14.
Lec 5Creating and Maintaining Geospatial DatabasesLongley, et al. "Geographic data modeling." Chapter 9.

———. "Creating and Maintaining Geospatial Databases." Chapter 11.

Ormsby et al. "Creating features." Chapter 15.

———. "Editing features and attributes." Chapter 16.
Lec 6Making Sense of the CensusMonmonier. "Data Maps: Making Nonsense of the Census." Chapter 10 (Chapter 9 in the first edition).
Lab 5Obtaining and Using U.S. Census Data in ArcGIS
Lec 7Spatial Analysis I (Vector-Based Methods)Ormsby, et al. "Preparing data for analysis." Chapter 11.

———. "Analyzing spatial data." Chapter 12.
Lab 6Vector Spatial Analysis (Buffers, Polygon Overlay, Area Allocation, Using ArcTools)Ormsby, et al. "Preparing data for analysis." Chapter 11.

———. "Analyzing spatial data." Chapter 12.
Lec 8Spatial Data Models and Spatial Analysis II (Raster, Network)
Lab 7Raster Spatial Analysis (Interpolation, Raster Operations, Spatial Analyst)
Lec 9Geocoding and Network Analysis MethodsOrmsby, et al. "Geocoding Addresses." Chapter 17.
Lab 8Address Matching and GeocodingOrmsby, et al. "Geocoding Addresses." Chapter 17.
Lec 10Introduction to Internet GISPeng, and Tsou. "GIS, Internet GIS, and Distributed GIServices." Chapter 1.

———. "Technology Evolutions of Web Mapping." Chapter 4.
Lab 9ArcIMS (Optional)Peng, and Tsou. "ArcIMS from ESRI." Chapter 8.2.
Lec 11Project Work
Lec 12Test (In-class, Open-book)
Lec 13-17Project WorkLecture 14

Notes by Cherie Abbanat, DUSP writing specialist, on "Creating Your 11.188/11.520 Presentation and Report." (PDF)
Lec 18-19Brief Project Presentations

 








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