FNRM 3131 - GIS For Natural Resource Management

• Read Chapters 1, 2
• Take Reading Quiz

(Note: most of our videos are on YouTube. They work correctly on a computer but on a phone the links sometimes are not handled correctly. If you get a "girl playing guitar", copy the link and paste it into your YouTube App on your phone to view the correct content)

• Course Mechanics Introduction
• Data Models Introductions
• Model structure, grain-extent-accuracy tradeoffs
• Sampling, assignment, single part and multipart
• Raster/vector comparison
• Topology
• Data Structures
• PDF Notes for Videos: Course Mechanics Introduction video Notes
• Lecture Slides Intro
  • Deck 1
  • Deck 2
  • Deck 3
  • Deck 4
  • Deck 5

• Geospatial Revolution
• Notes- Links
• 3 trillion trees
• What 3 Words
• History of GIS (ESRI)

See Course Mechanics and PDF links in upper left of this Webpage

• Lab 1 Instructions
• Summary Overheads for Lab exercise
• Lab1 Data
• Lab1 video walk-throughs
  • Part1
  • Part2
  • Part3
  • Part4

• Layout & North Arrow (see Note below for slight correction)
• Activate & Zoom Layout
• Measure Tool
• Scale Bar, Legend & text (see Note below for slight correction)
• Symbols
• Unique_Symbols
• Export_Map
• Correction Note

• Read Chapter 3

• Take Reading Quiz

Videos: 

Intro, Horizontal Datums

Vertical Datums

Map projections

Lecture PDFs: 
Part 1
Part 2
 

Understanding Map Projections,
Minn. Projections,
NADCON,
HTDP,
MNCON, 
Spheroid , 
Interesting 3D Projections - Jason Davies  

Great Circle Calc
Arc Second
DMS to DM to DD
 

• Turn in last week's Lab 1 by 11:55 p.m. Friday

• Do Lab 2, Projections/Coordinate Systems

 Lab 2 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 2 Data

 -On the Fly Projection
-Coordinate Query and Labels
-Set the Map Window Projection
-Set Layout Scale
-Rename Map & Set Measure Units

• Read Chapter 4

• Take Reading Quiz

• Make sure to take On-Line Exam 1, Chapters 1-3
  Friday - Sunday

Videos: 
Data Entry, Image & Registration

Lecture PDFs:
Data Entry,  Layer Registration

Open Streetmap - crowdsourcing

• Turn in last week's Lab 2 by 11:55 p.m. Friday

• Start Lab 3, Data Entry, Basic Digitizing

Lab 3 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 3 Data

 Create Feature Classes
-Digitizing Points
-DigLines
-DigPolys & Autocomplete
-Merge Polys
-Split Polys

• Chap 5 & 6 up to pg. 273
• Take Reading Quiz

Videos:
GPS-GNSS, COGO, COGO worksheet
Images1 Images2
Images3

PDFS of Lecture slides:
GPS-GNSS
COGO, COGO worksheet 
Images

GPS by Trimble

A LiDAR Primer
Electro-Magnetic-Radiation
NASA video - useful
 

• Turn in last week's Lab by 11:55 p.m. Friday

• Start Lab 4, Digitizing with Topology

Lab 4 Instructions 
-watch Lab4 intro video 1st!

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 4 Data

Lab 4 intro video

-AddAttribute 
-Clip digitize
-Create Topology
Hatch & Transparent Fills
-Validate Topology

• Remaining Chap 6, & Chap 7

• Take Reading Quiz

Videos:
Digital Data
 

Lecture PDF:
Digital Data

MnGeo - MN airphotos,
Borchert - Old MN airphotos,
Example Campus GeoPDF
Example of St Paul GeoPDF
Geospatial PDF's
GeoPDF Videos 1, 2, 3

• Turn in last week's lab

• Start Lab 6, more skills, table intro

• Start Homework 1(due end of Week 11)

• Do optional Lab 5, if interested

 Lab 6 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 6 Data

Homework 1

Lab 5 Data
Optional Lab 5, GPS instructions, Off Campus

Lab 6 discussion - tips video

-Lab 5 Waypoints, 
-Lab 5 Tracks, 
-Basic Tables
-Calculate Fields
-Manual Feature Select 
-Color Ramp & Basic Symbology
-Select by Location
-Field Delete
-Shaded Relief & More Symbology

 Chap 8 thru pg. 347

• Take Reading Quiz

• On-Line Exam 2, chaps. 4 - 6.
  (Friday - Sunday)

Video (this week and next):
Basic Tables
Joins
Normal Forms

Lecture PDF: 
Tables

Simple guide to Normal Forms

• Turn in last week's lab

• Start Lab 7, Tables

• Start Homework 2 (due end of Week 12)

Lab 7 Instructions,
Summary Overheads for Lab exercise,
Lab 7 Data

Homework 2 instructions,
Homework2.zip

Lab 7 discussion - tips video
Lab 7 common mistakes video

-Create New Table
-Join Tables
-Select by Attribute
-Table in Layouts

• Chap 8 pg. 348 to end
• Take Reading Quiz

Video: 
Normal Forms Example: Order/inventory

Normal Forms: Worm Field Sampling

Lecture PDF's:
-Norm Forms Example
-More Norm. Forms,
-Foreign keys, ER diag.

Simple guide to Normal Forms

• Turn in last week's lab

• Start Lab 8

Lab 8 Instructions

Summary Overhead for Lab exercise

Lab 8 Data

Lab 8 discussion-tips video

-Calc Nums & text
-Convert Excel Table
-Select By Location
-Summarize
-Many To One Fix

• Chap 9

• Take Reading Quiz

• Take On-Line Exam 3
   covers Chapters 7 & 8
  (Friday - Sunday)

Videos:
-Basic Analysis,
-Reclass/Dissolve,
-Buffer,
-Overlay,
-Set Algebra    

and

Lecture PDF on
Basic Analysis

ESRI Examples,

Windsite example

Blobs example

• Turn in last week's lab

• Start Lab 9

Lab 9 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 9 Data

-Lab 9 overview video

-Erase             
-Union 
-Area             
-Calculate Geometry
-Buffer         
-Summarizing for Total Area
-Multi2singlepart

• Read Chapter 10

• Take Reading Quiz

• Homework 1 due

Videos:
-Basic Raster Analysis,
-Moving Windows,
-Tables, Cost Surfaces 

Lecture PDFs:
Raster 1
Raster 2 

None

• Turn in last week's lab

• Start Lab 10
   

   

   

   

   

   

Lab 10 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 10 Data

Lab 10 overview video

-Resample
-Raster Calculator
-Reclass
-MapSize&Scale
-Distance
-Custom Ramp

• Read Chapter 11

• Take Reading Quiz

Videos:
-Slope/Aspect,
-Watersheds 

Lecture PDFs: (continued from Week 11)
Slope calculations

-Whitebox, 
-Manual watershed delineation 
-NRCS topos/sheds 
-Kernel slope calcs

• Turn in last week's lab

• Start Lab 11

• Homework 2 due

Lab 11 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 11 Data

-Raster Transparency
-Viewshed & Line of Sight
-Profile
-FAC2Streams
-Watershed
 

• Read Chapter 12

• Take Reading Quiz

• Take On-Line Exam 4, Chapters 9 - 11
  (Friday - Sunday)

Videos:
Interpolation

Lecture PDF:
Interpolation

GeoDA  
Using GIS to Map an Individual Animal's Home Range

• Turn in last week's lab

• Start Lab 12

Lab 12 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 12 Data

Lab 12 overview video
Lab and ArcGIS Pro tips  (note use Desktop not L:\home as mentioned in this older tips video)
Lab 12 second Map tips

-AddGeomAttributes
-ExtractRasterToPoints
-Geo Stat Wiz
-InXY&Thiessen (note part at :10 minute point in video on Converting Excel sheet to ArcGIS Table)
-Random Sample
-ReclassHints
-RemoveRasterSpeckle
-StratifiedRandom
-SystematicSamples

• Read Chapter 13

• Take Reading Quiz

Videos:
Cartographic Models 

Lecture PDFs:
Cartographic Models

Wind Site Example
Video
PDF

Placer Co. Example
Video
PDF

Stormwater Mitigation PDF

• Turn in last week's lab

• Start Lab 13

Lab 13 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 13 Data

Refer to videos in previous labs as needed

• Read Chapter 14

• Take Reading Quiz

Videos:
Modeling

PDF:
Spatio-temporal models

Data Quality

Video on Data Errors                                 

• Turn in last week's lab

• Start Lab 14

Lab 14 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 14 Data

Lab 14 Tips video 

 Flowchart Video

Refer to videos in previous labs as needed

Lab Instructions

Extra Credit Lab Data

Video on Adding directional arrows

Extra Credit Homework Instructions                             

Extra Credit Homework Data