Geography 176B, Winter 2002

People:

Instructor: Michael F. Goodchild (office hours Tuesday and Thursday 11-12.30 in Ellison 3611A)
TAs:
Matthew Clark
Sean Benison
David Jones

Schedule:

Classes: Tuesday and Thursday, 12.30-1.45, Buchanan 1930
Labs: Ellison 2610 (Star Lab)
Tuesday 2.00-5.00
Wednesday 9.00-12.00
Wednesday 4.00-7.00
Thursday 9.00-12.00
Thursday 3.00-6.00
Lab web pages

Grading:

176B (4 units):

Mid-term exam Thursday February 7: 40%
Final exam Monday March 18, 12.00-2.00: 40%
Labs: 20%
176BL (1 unit):
Labs: 100%

Textbooks:

Michael Zeiler (1999) Modeling Our World: The ESRI guide to Geodatabase design. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.
Paul A. Longley, Michael F. Goodchild, David J. Maguire, and David W. Rhind (2001) Geographic Information Systems and Science. New York: Wiley.

Syllabus:

1,2 Thinking about the Earth's surface, conceptual models of geographic data, objects and fields
3 Structure of ArcInfo8: ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcToolbox, the Geography Network, applications and vertical markets
4 The coverage model: classic ArcInfo
5 Shapefiles, topology, the geodatabase
6 UML, primitive modeling elements
7 Transportation applications of GIS
8 Finding data: metadata, clearinghouses, geolibraries
9 Map servers, location-based services
10 Locator services, gazetteers, indirect spatial referencing
11 Geographic query and analysis (1)
12 Analysis (2)
13 Analysis (3)
14 Surface models, slopes, watersheds
15 Accuracy, error modeling (1)
16 Accuracy (2)

Schedule:

Week	Dates	Lectures	Labs assigned	Labs due	Zeiler chapters	Longley chapters
1	Jan 7-11	1,2	Introduction		2,3	2,3
2	Jan 14-18	3,4	1		1,6	5
3	Jan 21-25	5	2	1	4,5	9
4	Jan 28-Feb 1	6,7	3	2	8
5	Feb 4-8	Review, Midterm
6	Feb 11-15	8,9	4	3		7.5
7	Feb 18-22	10,11			11	13
8	Feb 25-March 1	12,13	5	4		14
9	March 4-8	14,15	6	5	9,10	6, 15
10	March 11-15	16, Review		6

Old exam questions

These are the questions from 2001, 2000, 1999, and 1998
Some questions from earlier years may relate to material not covered in 2002
The further back you go the more such material there will be

Jack and Laura Dangermond Prizes:

These prizes are awarded annually to undergraduates at UCSB based on performance in the Geography 176 sequence. Up to $2,000 may be awarded, and separate prizes may be awarded to graduating seniors, juniors, Geography majors, and non-Geography majors. Awardees are selected by the instructors and TAs of the 176 sequence, and awards are made at the end of Spring Quarter.

CalGIS Conference:

Sacramento, March 6-8, 2002

ESRI Summer Internship program

spend a paid summer at ESRI in Redlands

ESRI User Conference Student Assistantship Program

help at the User Conference in San Diego in July

ESRI Virtual Campus

Turning Data into Information
to access any Virtual Campus course contact Mark Probert (probert@geog.ucsb.edu) or any of the following:
Greg Hajic (MIL)
Mike Colee (Bren)
Aaron Martin (Crustal Studies)
Joan Murdoch (SSCF)
Mark Schildauer (NCEAS)
Jim Frew (Bren)
Sum Huynh (NCGIA)