Workshop Background

The workshop is based on using ArcView with its Spatial Analyist and Image Analysis modules. The workshop assumes no background, but is an intense immersion learning approach. There is a great deal of "analysis" training, there is also enough background in data sources and data conventions to allow people to actually return home and DO something with real data.

Participants will get a binder of materials, and a CD-ROM with exercises and data sets. Participants can also burn a CD-ROM at the workshop to carry home any of their data they want. If you would like to present, contribute an exercise, or bring actual data you are currently working with, please contact Glenn Kroeger at Trinity University, 210-736-7607 or gkroeger@trinity.edu.

Workshop Eligibility

 Any ACS Faculty, Staff, or Student are welcome to attend.

Registration

We welcome student attendance at the workshop particularly if the student is actively working on a project with a faculty or staff member who will also be attending. Details regarding lodging will be forthcoming shortly. All expenses will be covered by ACS through the Environmental Program.

 

ACS GIS Boot Camp Preliminary Schedule

Sunday, August 8
Arrive San Antonio afternoon

Session I - Introduction to GIS

Spatial and non-spatial components, layers and attributes

Raster vs. vector representations of spatial data

Exercise - Introduction to Vector and Raster GIS Problems

Binary queries

Reclassification

Distance measures

Buffers

Exercise - Where should the satellite dish go?
Lunch
Session III - Principles of Cartography

Basic geodesy

Cartographic ellipsoids and datums

Cartographic projections

Grid systems

State Plane coordinate systems

UTM projections and grids

Ancillary cartographic software packages

Exercise - What you don't know about maps can hurt you!
Dinner
Session IV - "Hurricane Hazard Maps-GIS in Action"
Guest Speaker- Christopher Blakeley, Texas A&M

DLG and Tiger

Commercial and free vector data

DEMs and DTEDs

Buffers

Exercise - Building your own GIS - part 1, roads and elevations
Lunch
 Session VI - Data Sources II

Sources of image data

Rectification and georegistration

Images to thematic layers, classification

Exercise - Building your own GIS - part 2, image data
Dinner
Session VII - Data Sources III

Rasterizing vs digitizing

Digitizing hardware and software

Digitizing with ArcView 3.1

Exercise - Building your own GIS - part 3, adding data from a hard copy map.

The Global Positioning System (GPS)

Differential GPS (DGPS) and Real Time Kinetic (RTK) GPS

Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) and the future of GPS

Buffers

Avenue scripting

Non-Euclidean distance measures, cost surfaces

Unconstrained routing, minimum cost paths

Gridding

Kriging

Quantifying value judgements

Single and multiple utility functions

Group decision making

Exercise - Final Project, part 1, "Where should we put it?"

Thursday, August 12
Breakfast
Session XI - Wrap Up

Exercise - Final Project, part 2, completion and presentation of results

Wrap-up session

Continuing your training, and training others via the ESRI and the Web

Where do we go from here

Lunch
Depart San Antonio, afternoon