Geography 176A
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems FALL 2000
4 units, lecture 2 hours,
lab 2 hours, lab required.
No prerequisites.
Lecture: T, Th 5:00-6:15
pm Buchanan 1940
Lab:Ellison Hall,
Starr Lab, 2nd floor room 2610.
Text:
Getting
Started With Geographic Information Systems, 3rd Edition,
by Keith Clarke, Prentice Hall, 2001. A CD-ROM is included which will be
used for labs.
Course
Objectives:To have the students understand and develop an appreciation
for the development, implementation, and functions of spatial data processing,
its integration with remote sensing data and its application to a variety
of environmental issues.
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LAB
SECTIONS:
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TA
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email
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Office
Hours
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Tuesday
9-11
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Sarah
Battersby
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T
8-9;
W 3-4
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Tuesday
12:30-2:30
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Kerry
Halligan
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TBA
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Wednesday
10-12
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Melissa
Kelly
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W
9-10, 12-1
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Wednesday
1-3
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Faraneh
Chamran
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M
3-4;
W 12-1
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Wednesday
4-6
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Sarah
Battersby
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T
8-9;
W 3-4
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Thursday
10-12
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Sean
Benison
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TBA
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CLASS WEB PAGE: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~kclarke/g176a.outline.html
LAB WEB PAGE: http://cw.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/clarke/
Holidays: Friday
10 November; Thursday and Friday 23-24 November.
Nov 30 – Dec 6 Dead
Week.
Wed Dec 6 Fall 2000
Instruction Ends.
Final Exams:Th
7 Dec – Th 14 Dec, 2000.
Available
Support Services: The Map and Imagery Library (MIL, x2779) in the Davidson
Library is an excellent resource and one of the larger map, atlas, and
aerial imagery archives in North America. Numerous references on GIS, Arc
Info, ArcView, Remote Sensing and Air Photo Interpretation are available
as well.
GUIDELINES
AND POLICIES
AssignmentsLabs
are due at the begining
of the class, one week from each assignment date; late labs will lose 10%
for each day they are late. Missed assignments receive no credit.
Hard
copies
of lab assignments arethe only way to ensure proper credit. Some problems
have been discovered in emailing the lab assignments available on the CD-ROM
which comes with the text. Mailing the labs from the publisher's web site
(http://cw.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/clarke/)
has so far been reliable, but the email delivery has been slow. Students
are encouraged to email lab assignments from the Class Web Site, and if
this proves to reliable we may be able to forego the hardcopy. But until
it’s determined that 100% of the emailed assignments are being received
in a timely fashion, we can’t rely on this method.
Section
Enrollment:
Because computer space in the lab is limited, and a fair and even distribution
of students among the TA’s is necessary, students should attend the lab
section for which they are enrolled. TA’s receive a student roster for
each of their sections from the registrar’s office. The TA is responsible
for administering those students grades. Homework assignments should be
handed in to the TA of the section for which you are registered.
Enrollment
Codes
for unregistered students will be handed out by Robin Johnson in the Geog
Dept office. She has asked that you add your nameto
the sign up sheet at her desk. When the enrollment codes become available
in a week or so she’ll hand them out on a first come first serve basis.
Email
Accounts
can be obtained on the 1st floor of Phelps at Instructional
Computing.
Attendance/Punctuality/Class
Participation:
Your education is only as valuable as the effort you put into it. Attending
class and making the effort to interact in the classroom increases the
opportunity for learning experiences that can only occur in the classroom
setting. If this effort is not made, the opportunity is missed. No one
will be downgraded for not attending or participating.
Academic
Dishonesty:Discussion
of lab materials among students and collaboration on labsgreatly
increases active participation which increases learning and understanding.The
greatest synthesis of new material occurs in expressing that knowledge
in your own words. All final work on the labs should be your own.