Instructor: Brian Klinkenberg

Office: Room 209
Office hours: Tue / Thu
12:30-1:30

TA: Alejandro Cervantes

Office hours: Mon and Tues from 10-11 in Rm 115.

Lab Help: Jose Aparicio

Office: Room 240D

Computer Lab: Rm 115

 

 

Proposed 2012 Class and Lab Schedule

Use the links to access the lecture and lab materials.

Week
of ...
Tuesday
Lecture
Topic
Thursday 
Lecture
Topic
Weekly
Lab
Topic
Sep 4 - 6

Imagine UBC
(No classes)

 Introduction to the course Text: Chap 2.

No labs this week.
Sep 11 - 13 GI: Society, science, and systems
Text: Chap 1.		 Cartography and geovisualization
Text: Chap 12 and 13.

Lab 0: Obtain usernames and passwords from Jose (bring along your $20 lab fee).
ESRI Arc10 learning resources.

Lab 1: The identification of a least-cost pathway.
Sep 18 - 20 Representing geography
Text: Chap 3 and 8. 		Representing geography
Text: Chap 3 and 8.

Lab 1: Continued
Sep 25 - 27 No Class Tom Brittnacher, GIS librarian, will give an overview of the GIS services and facilities provided by the UBC Library

Lab 2: An overview of Digital Terrain Modelling and Multi-Criteria Analysis
Oct 2 - 4 Project discussion The nature of geographic data
Text: Chap 4.

Lab 2: Continued and the HTML lab (NOTE: The instructions have changed WRT the HTML lab.)
Oct 9 - 11 Spatial interpolation
Text: Chap 14 		Spatial modeling with GIS Text: Chap 16. (Monday is Thanksgiving Day, and UBC will be closed).
Oct 16 - 18 Spatial modeling with GIS Georeferencing
Text: Chap 5.		 Lab 3: Crime in the City
Oct 23 - 25 Class presentations on projects Class presentations on projects

Lab 3: Continued
Oct 30 - Nov 1 Uncertainty
Text: Chap 6.
 Uncertainty Web Mapping Services (New)
Nov 6 - 8 The Geospatial Revolution. Database Management Systems Text: Chap 10 Vanishing Islands? Space!
Nov 13 - 15 GPS  Clouds, GPS and more: A discussion by Jake Wall Labs open Saturday, Nov 17, 10:00-5:30 mapping
Nov 20 - 22 GIS data collection: remote sensing
Text: Chap 9.		 GIS data collection: remote sensing Labs open Saturday, Nov 24, 10:00-5:30
Nov 27 - 29 Remote sensing and more. Course review Labs open Saturday, Dec 1, 10:00-5:30
Dec Project Presentations: During your final labs, or on Friday, Dec 7 starting at noon. (Project marks)
Dec

Final Exam: Dec 13, 12:00
A copy of the 2009 final exam (another example)