GeoSpatial Data Systems

 

Welcome to the GIS in Civil and Environmental Engineering web site. The links below will guide to topics discussed in class. Visit often as changes will be made frequently. Additionally, lecture notes will be updated regularly.

All assignments must be turned in as hard copy unless e-mail is specifically requested. Use the lab # for e-mail subject if e-mail is used.

For e-mail help please write “HELP” as the topic.

Syllabus – Spring 2012

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Annotated Bibliography Instructions
 

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LECTURE NOTES

Intro to GIS

Maps and Cartographic Principals

Cartographic Tips

 

Labs: These will be assigned in lecture

 

Lab 1, Part 1 - Heads-up Digitizing and Application of Cartographic Design

Lab 1, Part 2 - How to complete your first GIS

Lab 1, Part 3 - Finish and Turn-In. Please Read

Tips for Lab 1

Lab 2a - Metes and Bounds

Lab 2b - Practical Application using Your New Database


Lab 3 - Clipping

Lab 4 - Importing .e00 and CAD Files

Lab 5 - Assigning Coordinates to Images

Lab 6 - Joins, Relates and Hyperlinks

Lab 7 - Projections

Lab 8 - Remote Sensing Assignment

Lab 9 - Projection Conversion

Lab 10 - Working with DEM's

Lab 11 – Creating Graphs

Lab 12 – Working with Labels

Creating a  Personal Geodatbase and Polygons

Contouring

Vector Rectification

Annotations


Resources for ArcGIS & Research Papers

These links are useful for finding GIS resources to get ideas for, and to use in your research papers.

ESRI Home Page
ESRI Libarary - conference proceedings and other good stuff
GISCafe.Com Home Page
GISCafe.Com Resources
GisDataDepot.Com - lots of data and other GIS stuff
Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center
USGS Seamless Data

N. Utah TM Imagery

Papers

Think out of the box.

Nash, G. D. , 1999, GIS – the geospatial data IT paradigm for the next century: Awibengkok core example, in Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, vol. 23, p. 31-34.

Instructor E-mail
Beth Murphy - bmurphy@egi.utah.edu