Geography 479/559 GIS and Environmental Modeling Lab

Spring 2000

State University of New York at Buffalo
  Department of Geography

Lab Overview

This lab is designed to provide students with hands-on experience in GIS and Environmental modeling and help students to understand the basic GIS concepts and techniques. ARC/INFO will be used as the primary sofeware in the lab to practice the various techniques. There are also a few application of Arcview and its extentions such as spatial analyst and 3D analyst.

Basic skills of digitizing with Arctools, handling INFO table with Tables, Arcedit, Arcplot and overlaying coverages are going to be covered in this lab. In addition, data structure(Vector and Raster), GRID, and TIN analysis will be discussed. Each session is designed with lecture and a series of exercise. The labs are also aiming at helping students apply the learned techniques to their term projects.

Lab Materials

We will use the following book, which is available at the bookstore: "Understanding GIS: The Arc/Info Method"(by ESRI, Version 7.2 for UNIX and Windows NT, 1998), as the main reference throughout the lab. In addition, some additional handouts will be given. There are Arc/Info User’s Guide and Command References in GIAL. It is strongly recommended that you refer to on-line help in Arc/Info. The lab website is http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/~dhan/geo559. The lab material will be provided in advance.

Lab Requirement

·  Each student is expected to attend all labs. It’s your responsibility to notify me in advance if you cannot attend the lab.

·  The labs are worth 30% of the final grade. There are 10 labs and each lab is worth 10%.

·  Each assignment will be due by 3:00 pm on its due date. No hand written labs will be accepted. Late assignments will be docked marks at the rate of 10% of the maximum possible mark per day. Exceptions will only be made on extraordinary circumstances. Late labs must be turned in to the Geography Main Office in Wilkeson 105. Have it date and time stamped.

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dhan@acsu.buffalo.edu

Last Updated: January, 2000