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GIS Fundamentals Dr. Ronald Briggs The University of Texas at Dallas Program in Geospatial Information Sciences Personal Nuts and Bolts Dr. Ronald Briggs Office: Green 3.212 Phone: 972-883-6877 (o), 972-345-6918 (cell) Office hours: Tues 6:30-7:00; Tues/Wed 3:00-4:00 by appointment (send e-mail) feel free to drop-in; I’m on campus most days (except Friday) Email: briggs@ or rbriggs@ Web: /~briggs/gisc6381.html Course Nuts and Bolts Texts Longley, Goodchild, Maguire, Rhind Geographic Information Systems and Science 2nd Ed. Wiley, 2005 Software Training: Gorr and Kurland GIS Tutorial: Workbook for ArcView 9 ESRI Press 2005 (includes 9.1 software) or Ormsby, et. al, Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop 2nd Ed. (ESRI Press, 2004) (includes 9.2 software on latest version) Alternatives to Longley: Chang, Introduction to GIS McGraw-Hill, 3rd ed. 2006 (used also in GISC 6384) Lo, C.P. and Albert Yeung Concepts and Techniques of GIS Prentice Hall, 2nd Ed. 2006 (best technical intro.) Worboys, Michael GIS: A Computing Perspective Taylor Francis, 2nd Ed 2004 (Computational focus) Evaluation midterm exam (35%) (“T/F with explanation”) final exam (40%) (“T/F with explanation”) five lab exercises (25% total). GIS--What is it?No easy answer anymore! Geographic/Geospatial Information information about places on the earth’s surface knowledge about “what is where when” (Don’t forget time!) Geographic/geospatial: synonymous GIS--what’s in the S? Systems: the technology Science: the concepts and theory Studies: the societal context Geographic Information Technologies Global Positioning Systems (GPS) a system of earth-orbiting satellites which can provide precise (100 meter to sub-cm.) location on the earth’s surface (in lat/long coordinates or equiv.) Remote Sensing (RS) use of satellites or aircraft to capture information about the earth’s surface Digital ortho images a key product (map accurate digital photos) Geographic Information Systems (GISy) Sof