GIS205

Taught by

Dr. Abu Z. Badruddin

Professor of GIS
Cayuga Community College
197 Franklin Street, Auburn, NY 13210

Live: (315) 294-8610
Fax: (315) 255-2117
Email: badruddin@cayuga-cc.edu
Office: M274 Main Building

Textbook

Mastering ArcGIS - Maribeth price, 8th Edition, McGraw Hill (required)
Geographic Information Systems: A Management Perspective - S. Aronoff, WDL Publications, Ottawa, Canada. (recommended)

Catalog Description

This course is designed to expose the senior students to the power and application of vector GIS, particularly ArcGIS. Theories and concepts of GIS will be reinforced with hands-on training for automating, editing, manipulating, and analyzing geographic data in vector domain. Two class hours and two lab hours weekly.

Course Purpose

This is an introductory level GIS course designed to introduce students to the basic theories and concepts of GISs and their application in exploring and analyzing geographic data. This course is divided into lectures and lab sessions. The conceptual elements are explained and discussed in the lecture sessions while the labs are designed to provide hands-on training to reinforce the concepts and lessons learned in the lectures.

Course Objectives

• To introduce students to the basic structures and functionalities of vector GISs.
• To provide students with hands-on training for automating, editing, manipulating, and analyzing spatial data using commercially available GIS Software.
• To provide GIS students with the knowledge and skills necessary to become professionals in the rapidly emerging field of GIS.

Laboratory Exercise

Each lab assignment will be considered as an exercise and is due following week. Late submission will not be accepted! Please see me if you have an emergency. Laboratory exercises will contribute substantially to your course grade. Students may be asked to repeat work that is not satisfactory.

Grading

Component	Weight
Exams	60%
Lab exercises	30%
Quizzes	10%

*** The above grading is subject to change at the instructor's discretion ***

Requirements

• A three-ring binder for an orderly & sequential organization of class materials

Lecture Topics Outline

Week	Topic
Week 1	Course Introduction & Demonstration
Week 2	Introdiction to GIS data models (Chapter 1)
Week 3	Exploring ArcMap (Chapter 2)
Week 4	Projections and Coordinate Systems (Chapter 3)
Week 5	Map Symbolization and Classification (Chapter 4)
Week 6	Working with Tables in ArcMap (Chapter 5)
Week 7	Queries on tables (cont.)
Week 8	Midterm/Review
Week 9	Spatial & Attribute Query (Chapter 6)
Week 10	Spatial & Attribute Query (cont.)
Week 11	Spatial joins (Chapter 7)
Week 12	Overlay Analysis (Chapter 8)
Week 13	Thanksgiving/ Overlay Analysis (cont.)
Week 14	Map composition in ArcMap (Chapter 9)
Week 15	Reviews/Spatial problems
Week 16	FINAL!