Geo457 materials

On this page I will link to the materials presented and needed for UofC Geo 457 (GIS II) course, Winter term 2010. For now this will be a placeholder for the blackboard until I figured how to make tables, pdfs and data available.

General Documents

• Syllabus
• Tentative Schedule
• Requirements on final lab report

Weekly Documents

week	lecture	lab	recommended reading
week 1: Jan 11.-15.	Slides - Intro to course, Slides - Spatial data quality 1	Slides - Intro to labs	Veregin (1999)
week 2: Jan 18.-22.	Slides - Spatial data quality 2	Slides - Intro ArcGIS Task Sheet Lab 1	Congalton (1991)
week 3: Jan 25.-29.	Slides - Spatial analysis intro	Slides - Intro editing Task Sheet Lab 2	n/a
week 4: Feb 01.-05.	Slides - Spatial analysis 1 - Polygon overlay	Slides - Intro integration Task Sheet Lab 3 (see also data section)	Chrisman (2001), Linke et al. (2009)
week 5: Feb 08.-12.	Slides - Spatial analysis 2 - Spatial interpolation	Slides - Intro interpolation Task Sheet Lab 4 Requirements on mid term lab report	Mitas and Mitasova (1999) (uploaded for image/plate 26)
Reading week: Feb 15.-19.	work on Midterm Lab Report	work on Midterm Lab Report	n/a
week 6: Feb 22.-26.	To Be Filled	To Be Filled	To Be Filled
week 7: Mar 1.-5.	To Be Filled	To Be Filled	To Be Filled
week 8: Mar 8.-12.	To Be Filled	To Be Filled	To Be Filled
week 9: Mar 15.-19.	To Be Filled	preliminary Task Sheet Lab 8 - since it contains instructions on the calculation of RMSE for DEM interpolation	To Be Filled

Additional Documents for the Labs

• data
• soil type map
• for Lab 3: if you don't want to exchange with another group use shp north, shp south
• legend of soil type map
• Table Erosivity
• Table Erodibility
• Table Slope-Length Exponent
• Table Lookup-Table Landuse Codes
• Table Landuse and Cover and Managment Factor
• USLE units

Other

• Literature
• Software