Resources
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- Syllabus (.pdf) (updated 1/20/2025)
- Class Zoom Link (call to arrange time)
- Canvas
- Apps To Go (UMN Citrix virtual Desktop )
Course schedule
Week 1 - Jan 20, 2025 No Classes (due to UMN Holiday on Monday)
Week 2 - Jan 27, 2025 Introduction to GIS, Data Models
For Lecture:
Topics: Introduction, Data Models | Lecture Resources (Links open in new window) | Supplementary Materials (Links open in new window) |
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(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) |
For Lab:
Lab 1: Introduction to the software | Assignment (Links open in new window) | Lab Videos (Links open in new window) |
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See Course Mechanics and PDF links in upper left of this Webpage
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Week 3 - Feb 3, 2025 Geodesy and Map Projections
For Lecture:
Lecture Topics: Geodesy and Map Projections | Lecture Resources: (Links open in new window) | Supplementary Materials: (Links open in new window) |
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| Videos: | Understanding Map Projections, |
For Lab:
Lab 2: Coordinate Systems | Assignment (Links open in new window) | Lab Videos (Links open in new window) |
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| -On the Fly Projection |
Week 4 - Feb 10, 2025 Getting Data Into a GIS
For Lecture:
Topics: Digitizing, Data Entry, Topology | Lecture Resources: (Links open in new window) | Supplementary Materials: (Links open in new window) |
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| Videos:
| Open Streetmap - crowdsourcing
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For Lab:
Lab 3: Data Entry | Assignment (Links open in new window) | Lab Videos (Links open in new window) |
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| Summary Overheads for Lab exercise
| Create Feature Classes |
Week 5 - Feb 17, 2025 Data Topology, Global Positioning, and Data from Images
For Lecture:
Topics: GPS and Images | Lecture Resources (Links open in new window) | Supplementary Materials (Links open in new window) |
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| Videos:
| GPS by Trimble |
For Lab:
Lab 4: Digitizing, Topology | Assignment (Links open in new window) | Lab 4 Videos (Links open in new window) |
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| Lab 4 Instructions Summary Overheads for Lab exercise
| -AddAttribute |
Week 6 - Feb 24, 2025 Digital Data
For Lecture:
Topics: Images, Digital Data | Lecture Resources (Links open in new window) | Supplementary Materials: (Links open in new window) |
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| Videos: Lecture PDF:
| MnGeo - MN airphotos, |
For Lab:
Lab 6: Digital Data, and 5 (optional) GNSS | Assignment (Links open in new window) | Supplementary Material: (Links open in new window) |
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| Lab 6 Instructions Homework 1 | -Lab 5 Waypoints, |
Week 7 - Mar 3, 2025 Tables, Relational Databases
For Lecture:
Topics: Attribute Tables, Introduction | Resources (Links open in new window) | Supplementary Materials (Links open in new window) |
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Chap 8 thru pg. 347
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For Lab:
Lab 7: Tables | Assignment (Links open in new window) | Lab Videos (Links open in new window) |
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| Lab 7 Instructions, Homework 2 instructions,
| Lab 7 discussion - tips video -Create New Table |
Week 8 - Mar 10, 2025 Spring Break Week - No Lectures or Labs
Spring Break Week - No Lecture, Quizzes or Lab
Week 9 - Mar 17, 2025 More Tables
For Lecture:
Topics: Attribute Tables, Introduction | Resources (Links open in new window) | Supplementary Materials: (Links open in new window) |
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| Video: Normal Forms: Worm Field Sampling Lecture PDF's:
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For Lab:
Lab 8: More Tables | Assignment (Links open in new window) | Lab Videos (Links open in new window) |
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| Summary Overhead for Lab exercise
| -Calc Nums & text |
Week 10 - Mar 24, 2025 Basic Spatial Analysis
For Lecture:
Topics: Intro to Spatial Analysis | Resources: (Links open in new window) | Supplementary Materials: (Links open in new window) |
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| Videos: and Lecture PDF on
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For Lab:
Lab 9: Basic Vector Analysis | Assignment (Links open in new window) | Lab Videos (Links open in new window) |
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| Summary Overheads for Lab exercise
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Week 11 - Mar 31, 2025 Raster Analysis
For Lecture:
Topics: Raster Analsysis | Resources: (Links open in new window) | Supplementary Materials: (Links open in new window) |
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| Videos:
| None
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For Lab:
Lab 10: Raster Analysis | Assignment (Links open in new window) | Lab Videos (Links open in new window) |
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| Summary Overheads for Lab exercise
| -Resample |
Week 12 - April 7, 2025 Terrain Analysis
For Lecture:
Topics: Terrain Analysis | Resources: (Links open in new window) | Supplementary Materials: (Links open in new window) |
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| Videos: Lecture PDFs: (continued from Week 11)
| -Whitebox,
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For Lab:
Lab 11: Terrain Analysis | Assignment: (Links open in new window) | Lab Videos: (Links open in new window) |
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| -Raster Transparency |
Week 13 - April 14, 2025 Interpolation
For Lecture:
Topics: Interpolation | Resources: (Links open in new window) | Supplementary Materials: (Links open in new window) |
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| Videos: Lecture PDF:
| GeoDA
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For Lab:
Lab 12: Interpolation | Assignment (Links open in new window) | Lab Videos: (Links open in new window) |
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| Lab 12 overview video -AddGeomAttributes |
Week 14 - April 21, 2025 Cartographic Modeling
For Lecture:
Topics: Interpolation | Resources: (Links open in new window) | Supplementary Materials: (Links open in new window) |
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| Videos: Lecture PDFs:
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For Lab:
Lab 13: Cartographic Modeling | Assignment | Lab Videos |
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| Refer to videos in previous labs as needed |
Week 15- April 29, 2025 Spatio-temporal Modeling
For Lecture:
Topics: Spatiotemporal Models, Errors | Resources: (Links open in new window) | Supplementary Materials: (Links open in new window) |
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For Lab:
Lab 14: Cartographic Modeling | Assignment (Links open in new window) | Lab Videos (Links open in new window) |
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| Refer to videos in previous labs as needed |
Week 16 - May 5, 2025 The Future (GIS)
Read Chapter 15 Future Directions (this content not included on Final Exam)
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Supplemental Slides Supplemental Slides video
See/Contact Instructor if questions in preparation for the Final
Remember to take On-Line Final Exam (Chapters 2-14; two hours)
(Friday - Monday; 12/13/2024 through 12/16/2024)
Week 17 - May 12, 2025 Final Exam Week
No lecture; Lab only Wednesday & Thursday (Skok 35)
Remember to take On-Line Final Exam (Chapters 2-14; two hours)
(Friday - Monday; 12/13/2024 through 12/16/2024)
Extra credit
Extra Credit #1: Optional Lab (Links open in new window) | Extra Credit 2: Optional Homework (Links open in new window) |
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Lab Instructions Video on Adding directional arrows |