Lectures
- Lecture 1: Introduction to GIS
- Exercise 1: ArcGIS Online web map
- Lecture 2: Coordinate systems and data types in GIS
- Exercise 2: Creating a new feature class in a state plane projection
- Exercises
- Exercise 3: How to create population maps in ArcMap (pending update to ArcGIS Pro)
- Home exercise 1: 2a–2c symbology, extrude
- Lecture 3: GIS data models
- Exercise 4: 3a–3d definition query, clip, select and export, swipe, add field, field calculation, join, attribute index
- Exercise 5: Global spatial autocorrelation test of obesity global Moran’s $I$, $p$-value
- Homework 1: Global spatial autocorrelation test of the median income
- Exercises
- Exercise 6: Local spatial autocorrelation test of the median income local Moran’s $I$
- Exercise 7: Analyzing the world population growth clean data, join
- Lecture 4: GIS databases
- Exercise 8: 4a–4c feature class, geodatabase, xy events, attribute domains, create/modify features, split, merge
- Exercise 9: How to convert LiDAR data in the LAS file format to surface models in ArcGIS Pro
- Quiz (written)
- Lecture 5: GIS data encoding
- Exercise 10: Data editing vertices, extend or trim, reshape, clip
- Lecture 6: GIS data analysis 1
- Exercise 11: Schools close to major roads buffer
- Exercise 12: Monthly average precipitation of a school Thiessen polygons
- Exercise 13: Fire stations within the urban area intersect
- Exercise 14: Fire stations outside the urban area erase
- Exercise 15: Urban areas or counties union
- Home exercise 2: 8a–8d kernel density, hot spot analysis
- Lecture 7: GIS data analysis 2
- Exercise 16: NLCD reclassification reclassify
- Exercise 17: DEM reclassification reclassify
- Exercise 18: Major NLCD classes within a radius focal statistics
- Exercise 19: Major NLCD classes by census block focal statistics
- Exercise 20: Slope slope
- Exercise 21: Aspect aspect
- Exercise 22: Hillshade aspect
- Exercise 23: Solar radiation area solar radiation
- Exercise 24: Line of sight line of sight
- Exercise 25: Viewshed viewshed
- Project proposal
- Lecture 8: GIS process models
- Exercise 26: House hunting cost distance, raster calculator, multi-criteria evaluation
- Lecture 9: Global positioning systems
- Exercise 27: Line of sight
- Exercise 28: Line of sight model
- Homework 2: Find schools model
- Quiz (written)
- Lecture 10: GIS data quality
- Exercise 29: Flow accumulation
- Exercise 30: Stream network delineation
- Exercises
- Exercise 31: Watershed delineation
- Exercise 32: Floodplain delineation
- Exercise 33: Hydrology model
- Project update
- Quiz (analysis)
- Lecture 11: Introduction to GRASS GIS and QGIS
- Exercise 34: Hydrology in GRASS GIS
- Exercise 35: How to study deforestation in GRASS GIS
- Quiz (analysis)