FNRM 3131 - GIS For Natural Resource Management

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Week 1 - Sept 2, 2024 Introduction to GIS, Data Models

For Lecture:

Topics: Introduction, Data Models

  • Read Chapters 1, 2

  • Take Reading Quiz

 

 

 

Lecture Resources

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:  
Overall Class Introduction 

Lecture  Slides  Intro
Deck 1, Deck 2, Deck 3, Deck 4, Deck 5

 

Supplementary Materials

Geospatial Revolution,
Notes- Links,
3 trillion treesWhat 3 Words

History of GIS (ESRI)

 

 

 

 

For Lab:

Lab 1: Introduction to the software


See Quick Start Video and PDF links
in upper left of this screen

 

 Assignment

Lab 1 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise  

Lab1 Data

 Lab1 video walk-throughs 
Part1  Part2  Part3 Part4

 

 Lab Videos

-Layout & North Arrow
-Activate & Zoom Layout
-Measure Tool   
-Scale Bar, Legend & text
-Symbols
-Unique_Symbols
-Export_Map

 

Week 2- Sept 9, 2024 Geodesy and Map Projections

For Lecture:

Topics: Geodesy and Map Projections

  • Read Chapter 3

  • Take Reading Quiz

 

 

 

Lecture Resources:


Videos: 

Intro, Horizontal Datums

Vertical Datums

Map projections

Lecture PDFs: 
Part 1
Part 2
 

 

Supplementary Materials:

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

Great Circle Calc
 

 

For Lab:

Lab2: Coordinate Systems

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

  • Do Lab 2, Projections/Coordinate Systems

 Assignment

Lab 2 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 2 Data

 Lab Videos

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

 

Week 3 - Sept 16, 2024 Getting Data Into a GIS

For Lecture:

 

Topics: Digitizing, data entry, topology

  • Read Chapter 4

  • Take Reading Quiz

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

 

 

Lecture Resources:

Videos: 
Data EntryImage & Registration

Lecture PDFs:
Data EntryLayer Registration


 

 

Supplementary Materials:

Open Streetmap - crowdsourcing

 

 

 

 

 

For Lab:

Lab 3: Data entry

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

  • Start Lab 3, Data Entry, Basic Digitizing

 

 

 Assignment

Lab 3 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 3 Data

 

 

 Lab Videos

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

Week 4 - Sept 23, 2024 Data Topology, Global Positioning, and Data from Images

For Lecture:

 

Topics: GPS and Images

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

 

 

Lecture Resources:

Videos:
GPS-GNSSCOGO, COGO worksheet
Images1 Images2
Images3

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

 

 

 

Supplementary Materials:

GPS by Trimble

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

 

For Lab:

Lab 4: Digitizing, Topology

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

  • Start Lab 4, Digitizing with Topology

 

 

 Assignment

Lab 4 Instructions 
-watch Lab4 intro video 1st!

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 4 Data

 

 Lab Videos
Lab 4 intro video

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

Week 5 - Sept 30, 2024 Digital Data

For Lecture:

 

Topics: Images, Digital Data

  • Remaining Chap 6, & Chap 7

  • Take Reading Quiz

 

 

Lecture Resources:

Videos:
Digital Data
 

Lecture PDF:
Digital Data

 

 

Supplementary Materials:

MnGeo - MN airphotos,
Borchert - Old MN airphotos,
Example Campus GeoPDF
Example of St Paul GeoPDF
Geospatial PDF's
GeoPDF Videos 123

 

For Lab:

Lab 6: Digital Data, and 5 (optional) GNSS

  • Turn in last week's lab

  • Start Lab 6, more skills, table intro

  • Start Homework 1(due end of Week 10)

  • Do optional Lab 5, if interested

 Assignment
Lab 6 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 6 Data

Homework 1

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

 Lab Videos
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

Week 6 - Oct 7, 2024 Tables, Relational Databases

For Lecture:

 

Topics: Attribute Tables, Introduction    

  • Chap 8 thru pg. 347

  • Take Reading Quiz

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

 

 

 

 

Resources:

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

Lecture PDF: 
Tables

 

 

Supplementary Materials:

Simple guide to Normal Forms

 

 

 

 

For Lab:

Lab 7: Tables

  • Turn in last week's lab

  • Start Lab 7, Tables

 

 Assignment

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

Homework 2 instructions,
Homework2.zip

 

 Lab Videos
Lab 7 discussion - tips video
Lab 7 common mistakes video

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

Week 7 - Oct 14, 2024 More Tables

For Lecture:

 

Topics: Attribute Tables, Introduction 

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

 

Resources

 

Video: 
Normal Forms Example: Order/inventory

Normal Forms: Worm Field Sampling

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

 

 

 

Supplementary Materials:
Simple guide to Normal Forms

 

For Lab:

Lab 8: More Tables

  • Turn in last week's lab

  • Start Lab 8

 

 Assignment

Lab 8 Instructions

Summary Overhead for Lab exercise

Lab 8 Data

 

 Lab Videos
Lab 8 discussion-tips video

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

Week 8 - Oct 21, 2024 Basic Spatial Analysis

For Lecture:

Topics: Intro. to Spatial Analysis 

  • Chap 9

  • Take Reading Quiz

  • Homework 1 due

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

 

 

Resources:

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

and

Lecture PDF on
Basic Analysis

 

 

 

Supplementary Materials:

ESRI Examples,

Windsite example

Blobs example

 

For Lab:

Lab 9: Basic Vector Analysis

  • Turn in last week's lab

  • Start Lab 9

 

 Assignment

Lab 9 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

 

Lab 9 Data

 Lab Videos
-Lab 9 overview video


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

Week 9 - Oct 28, 2024 Raster Analysis

For Lecture:

Topics: Raster Analysis

  • Read Chapter 10

  • Take Reading Quiz

 

 

Resources:


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

Lecture PDFs:
Raster 1
Raster 2 

 

 

 

Supplementary Materials:
None

 

 

For Lab:

Lab 10: Raster Analysis

  • Turn in last week's lab

  • Start Lab 10

  • Do Homework 2

 

 Assignment

Lab 10 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 10 Data

 

 Lab Videos
Lab 10 overview video

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

Week 10 - Nov 4, 2024 Terrain Analysis

For Lecture:

Topics: Terrain Analysis

  • Read Chapter 11

  • Take Reading Quiz

 

 

Resources:


Videos:
-Slope/Aspect,
-Watersheds 

Lecture PDFs: (continued from Week 11)
Slope calculations

 

 

Supplementary Materials:-

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

 

 

For Lab:

Lab 11: Terrain Analysis

  • Turn in last week's lab

  • Start Lab 11

 

 Assignment

Lab 11 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 11 Data

 Lab Videos


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

Week 11 - Nov 11, 2024 Interpolation

For Lecture:

Topics: Interpolation

  • Read Chapter 12

  • Take Reading Quiz

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

 

 

Resources:
Videos:
Interpolation

Lecture PDF:
Interpolation

 

 

Supplementary Materials:-

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

 

 

For Lab:

Lab 12: Interpolation

  • Turn in last week's lab

  • Start Lab 12

 

 Assignment

Lab 12 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 12 Data

Lab Videos
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

Week 12 - Nov 12, 2024 Cartographic Modeling

For Lecture:

Topics: Interpolation

  • Read Chapter 13

  • Take Reading Quiz

 

 

Resources:
Videos:
Cartographic Models 

Lecture PDFs:
Cartographic Models

 

 

Supplementary Materials:-

 

Wind Site Example
Video
PDF

Placer Co. Example
Video
PDF

Stormwater Mitigation PDF

 

 

 

For Lab:

Lab 13: Cartographic Modeling

  • Turn in last week's lab

  • Start Lab 13

 

 Assignment

Lab 13 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 13 Data

Lab Videos

Refer to videos in previous labs as needed

Week 13 - Nov 25, 2024 Thanksgiving Week - No Lectures or Labs

Thanksgiving Week  -  No Lecture, Quizzes or Lab

Week 14- Dec 2, 2024 Spatio-temporal Modeling

For Lecture:

Topics: Spatiotemporal Models, Errors     

  • Read Chapter 14

  • Take Reading Quiz

 

 

 

Resources:
Videos:
Modeling


PDF:
Spatio-temporal models

Data Quality

 

 

Supplementary Materials:
Video on Data Errors                                 

 

 

 

 

For Lab:

Lab 14: Cartographic Modeling

  • Turn in last week's lab

  • Start Lab 14

 

 Assignment

Lab 14 Instructions

Summary Overheads for Lab exercise

Lab 14 Data

Lab Videos
Lab 14 Tips video 

 Flowchart Video

Refer to videos in previous labs as needed

Week 15 - Dec 9, 2024 The Future (GIS)

Read Chapter 15 Future Directions (this content not included on Final Exam)
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 16 - Dec 16, 2024 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

Lab Instructions

Extra Credit Lab Data

Video on Adding directional arrows

 

 

 

 

Extra Credit #2: Optional Homework

Extra Credit Homework Instructions                             

Extra Credit Homework Data