Geography 176B, Winter 2004

People:

Instructor: Mike Goodchild (office hours Tuesday and Thursday 2-3.30 in Ellison 5707)
work 805 893 8049
home 805 968 0244
email good@geog.ucsb.edu
TAs:
Sean Benison, benison@geog.ucsb.edu

Ting Lei, tinglei@geog.ucsb.edu

QingFeng Guan, guan@geog.ucsb.edu

Schedule:

Classes: Tuesday and Thursday, 5.00-6.30, Buchanan 1930

Labs: Ellison 2610 (Star Lab)

Thursday 9.00-12.00
Tuesday 6.30-9.30
Thursday 12.00-3.00
Tuesday 2.00-5.00
Wednesday 3.00-6.00

Bring a ZIP disk

Lab web pages

Grading:

176B (4 units):
Mid-term exam Tuesday February 3: 35%
Final exam Thursday March 18, 7.30-9.30 pm: 40%
Labs: 25%
176BL (1 unit):
Labs: 100%
Lab overdue policy: 10% off per day
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 Accuracy, uncertainty
 

Schedule:

Week Dates Lectures Labs assigned Labs due Zeiler chapters Longley chapters
1 Jan 5-9 1,2 2,3 2,3
2 Jan 12-16 3,4 1 1,6 5
3 Jan 19-23 No class, 5 2 1 4,5 9
4 Jan 26-30 6, Review 8
5 Feb 2-6 Midterm, 7 3 2
6 Feb 9-13 8,9 7.5
7 Feb 16-20 10,11 3 11
8 Feb 23-27 12,13 4 9,10 13,14
9 March 1-5 14,15 5 4 6, 15
10 March 8-12 16, Review 5

Old mid-term questions

2003
2002

Old exam questions

These are the questions from 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, and 1998
Some questions from earlier years may relate to material not covered in 2004
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.

ESRI Virtual Campus

Turning Data into Information was developed by ESRI to help students through the Longley, Goodchild, Maguire and Rhind textbook. It presents the contents of the book in a series of easy-to-follow online modules.

Other online courses:
Introduction to ArcInfo using ArcMap, ArcCatalog, and ArcToolbox
Introduction to ArcInfo using ArcToolbox
Introduction to ArcView 3D Analyst
Introduction to ArcView Business Analyst
Introduction to ArcView GIS
Introduction to ArcView Network Analyst
Introduction to ArcView Spatial Analyst
Introduction to Visual Basic for ESRI Software
Learning ArcGIS I (for ArcView 8, ArcEditor 8, and ArcInfo 8)
Learning ArcGIS II: Presenting Information
Learning ArcIMS
Programming with Avenue
What's New in ArcInfo 8 (7.x to 8.0.1 or 8.0.2)
What's New in ArcInfo 8 (from 7.x to 8.1)
Working with ArcView Image Analysis