Hoa‘aina RS/GIS Center

Windward Community College

GIS 150: Introduction to GIS/GPS

Course Outline Class Syllabus How to Register

 

Course Outline

Course Name: INTRODUCTION TO GIS/GPS

Course Alpha: GIS 150

Course Credits: 3 credits

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: An introductory course in the applications of geographic information systems (GIS) with special emphasis on using ArcView GIS. Includes database construction and techniques for spatial data manipulation, analysis and display. Students will also gain basic experience with the use of Global Positioning System (GPS). Applications will be cross-disciplinary in nature, including such fields as the environmental sciences, business marketing, geopolitical demography, health/epidemic monitoring and real estate management.

Pre-requisites: None. (Familiarity with basic computer operations and databases highly recommended.)

Articulation by Campus:

WCC: Natural Sciences: Group 3 and Business Technology Certificate of Completion, ICS Specialization

Required Text/Materials:

Other Materials:

  1. GPS: A Guide to the Next Utility (Jeff Hurn)
  2. Differential GPS (Jeff Hurn) optional reading

Activities Required at Times Other than Class Times: None

 

Instructor: Dr. Joseph Ciotti or other staff

Office: Imiloa 134

Office Phone: 235-7322 (WCC Office)

email: ciotti@hawaii.edu

 

 

GIS 150 Fall 2001 Syllabus

 

 

Monday

Lecture Topic(s)

Pre-Class Exercise/
Assignment

Computer Lab
Assignment

Aug 27

• Introduction to GIS: history and
applications

• Chp 1 Desktop GIS:
What it is & what it does

• Chp 7 Introducing ArcView GIS

  

• handouts

• Ex 7 a

Sep 3

LABOR

DAY

HOLIDAY

Sep 10

• Chp 2 This is how it works

• Chp 8 Getting data into ArcView
GIS

• Ex 8 a, b

• Assignment 1

Sep 17

• Chp 9 Classifying & displaying
themes

• Chp 10 Symbolizing themes

• Ex 9 a, b, c

• Ex 10 a, b, c

• Assignment 2

Sep 24

• Chp 5 What you need to know
about data

• Chp 11 Measuring distance &
area in a view

• Chp 12 Managing scale

• Ex 11 a, b, c

• Ex 12 a, b

• Assignment 3

Oct 1

• Chp 3 Asking questions; getting
answers

• Chp 13 Selecting map features in
a view

• Chp 14 Selecting records in a table

• Ex 13 a, b, c

• Ex 14 a, b, c

• Assignment 4

Oct 8

• QUIZ 1: Basics of GIS

• Introduction to GPS

• Read GPS: A Guide to the
Next Utility

• Assignment 5

Oct 15

• GPS Part 2

• downloading databases and
shapefiles from the internet

• Identify general nature of
semester project

• Assignment 6

Oct 22

• Chp 15 displaying & editing tables

• Chp 16 Joining, linking, and hot
links

• Ex 15 a, b, c

• Ex 16 a, b, c

• Assignment 7

Oct 29

• QUIZ 2: GPS

• Chp 17 Finding the features nearby

• Chp 18 Finding the features within

• Ex 17 a, b, c

• Ex 18 a, b

• Assignment 8

Nov 5

• Chp 19 Finding features that
intersect other features

• Chp 20 Spatially joining tables

• Ex 19 a, b

• Ex 20 a, b

• Assignment 9

Nov 12

• Chp 4 Making information
presentable

• Chp 21 Working with charts

• Chp 22 Creating map layouts

• Ex 21 a, b, c

• Ex 22 a, b, c

• Assignment 10

Nov 19

• Chp 23 Creating shapefiles

• Chp 24 Editing shapes in a theme

• Ex 23 a, b, c

• Ex 24 a, b

• Assignment 11

Nov 26

• Chp 25 Creating themes from
coordinate file

• Chp 26 Address geocoding

• Ex 25 a

• Ex 26 a, b, c

• Assignment 12

Dec 3

• QUIZ 3: ArcViewGIS

• work on final draft of
semester project

• classwork on
semester project

Dec 10

• Semester Project Presentation

• Course Evaluation

• finish semester project

• present ation of
semester project

No FINAL EXAM

 

How to Register

Phone the Windward Community College Registrar's Office at (808) 235-7432

 

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