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GIS Workshop

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

GIS Workshop

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Presented by

David Valentine

Chris Condit

Presented by

David Valentine

Chris Condit

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• Learn fundamentals of desktop mapping and GIS: from data collection/discovery to geodatabase construction to spatial analysis to presentation

• Understand GIS issues in cyberinfrastructure: creating spatial data services, integrating geographic data online

• Get familiar with software (if needed…)

Course Goals

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Overview• Intro and GIS basics:

– History * review of software * nature and representation of spatial data * data structures * mapping * projections and georeferencing

– Hands-on: Virtual Campus; ArcMap etc. demos.

• GIS applications and Web GIS– GIS Core: geodatabases, operations, applications

(hands-on)– GIS on the Web and Web data sources (including

hands-on)– GIS in GEON (the Geosciences Network) project

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Instructors

• David Valentine (valentin@sdsc.edu)

• Chris Condit (condit@sdsc.edu)

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Spatial Information Systems LabResearch and system development

• Services-based spatial information integration infrastructure

• Mediation services for spatial data, query processing• Joint analysis of spatial and other types of data (survey

data in particular)• Spatial data standards and technologies for online

mapping• Regional development (modeling; data and knowledge

integration)• Support of spatial data projects at SDSC and beyond

Mediator

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Mediator

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services

In Geosciences (GEON, CUAHSI, ESRI)

Spatial web services

FederalAgencies

Figure 1.26 The Geography Network.

ESRICounty spatial data and toxicant information

Telesis, other localNon-profits

CA state

WSDL

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Student projects

The CHI ME Model

In regional development (NIEHS SBRP)

In Neurosciences (BIRN, CCDB)

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• Sources of slides:– Courses that Ilya Zaslavsky taught at UW, WMU, SDSU, UCSD– Slides accompanying standard textbooks (“Getting to Know GIS”,

“Geographic Information Systems and Science”, etc.)– ESRI courses– Various online presentations

• Sources of data and images:– Projects that we are involved in: GEON, BIRN, others

• Software to be used/demonstrated:– ESRI’s ArcGIS and ArcIMS– Various code from the group projects

• First time doing a basic GIS talk/tutorial

Slides / disclaimers