UCSB Spring Quarter 2013 Geography 232

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Cartographic Transformations


Instructor: Keith C. Clarke Office: Phone: 805-456-2827 Email to: kclarke@geog.ucsb.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 9:00-11:00 am. Seminar: Class meets Tuesdays 8:00-11:00am TBA 1720 Ellison Hall.

When---------------------- What---------------------- Discussion

April 2nd An overview of map transformations. Goals for the class.
Moellering's Bibliography Clarke Chapter 8 . Chapter 9 . Chapter 10

April 9th: No class meeting A transformational view of cartography
Tobler 1959, Tobler 1979 , Chrisman

April 16th Analytical cartography
Tobler 1976 , Clarke & Cloud 2000 , Tobler 2000

April 23rd Analytical cartography, GIScience, GeoComputation, GeoVis What is GeoComputation? A history and outline . Ehlen et al. (2002) Kwan (2000) Saalfeld (2002) Atkinson (2001) Kraak (2002) Goodchild (1992) Couclelis (1998) Cartography Specialty group.

April 30th Map projections Tobler website.    Geographers Craft (Dana)     Map Projections (Anderson) Snyder 1984 Tobler 2004 Steinwand et al. 1995 Mulcahy+Clarke 2001 Brainerd+Pang 2001

May 7th Interpolation
Tobler 1979 Lam 1983 Armstrong 2000   Cooper & Jarvis 2004 Demirhan 2003 Goovaerts 2000 Kyriakidis 2004 Schloeder et al 2001 Waldo Tobler's PPT presentation


May 14th Terrain surfaces and skeletons
 Pike 2002   Mark 1975   Gallant & Wilson 1996   Florinsky 1998 Zhou & Liu 2004   Zhang et al 1999   Corripio 2003


May 24th FRIDAY Spatial Indexing Methods Samet 1990   Bentley 1975   Omohudro 1989   Muja+Lowe 2009   Tobler+Chen 1986   Peucker+Chrisman 1975   Goodchild 2000  

May 28th Fractals and spatial metrics Burrough Dutton Herold et al Neel et al
June 4th Technological transformations
 Nechero and Vreeland Goodchild   Schuurman   Wright et al.

June 3rd MONDAY Final Paper Formal Presentations

Cartography has been called "A discipline in transformations." The very nature of cartographic representation involves gathering spatial information and then subjecting it to transformations of dimension, scaling, scale, geometry and symbolization before the information is ready for viewing and interpretation.

In this seminar we will explore the transformational view of cartography using the approach of analytical cartography. Students are expected to read material in advance, and come to class prepared for in-depth discussion of cartographic research. A term paper will be required on a topic of the students choice.

Weekly reading assignments include various papers and book chapters. These will be circulated in class.



This page last updated 4/1/2013 by Keith Clarke kclarke@geog.ucsb.edu