LAB 1 - DUE JAN. 19 BY 4:00 pm

Goal: research different applications of GIS. Gain familiarity with the breadth of GIS applications. Explore what datasets are used for different GIS projects and how they are represented in a GIS.

Assignment:

Do a literature search of different GIS projects that are of substantive interest to your general field of study. You can find your information on the web and from the following journals in the Geography/Map Library. Journals that are not necessarily focused on GIS/RS often have individual articles that do use GIS/RS. For example, Demography, Landscape Ecology, Land Degradation and Development, Journal of Arid Lands and so on. See this IUB library search page for useful search tools (especially Web of Knowledge, Academic Search/EBSCO, Ingenta). IUCAT also has direct links to many sources including ArcUser.

Geography/Map Library main web page
Partial list of relevant academic journals

Some academic journals oriented towards GIS (see web pages above for links to online subscriptions):

• Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
• International Journal of Geographical Information Science
• Transactions in GIS
• Journal of Geographical Systems
• Cartography and Geographic Information Systems
• Geocarto International

See the Geography/Map Library (basement of Student Building) for journals for which IU does not have an electronic subscription.

Do a 1/2 page write-up of 5 GIS projects (i.e. ~3 pages total, 1.5 spaced, font size 10-12). In this summary write-up you should:

• Summarize the project
• Identify the goal of the project
• Identify the data used in the project

For these 5 projects, at least one must come from the web, at least one must come from ArcUser or ArcNews, and at least one must come from an academic journal (e.g. PE&RS, Geocarto, Intl. Journal of GIS or others; note you may find other academic journals online).

In all cases, you must provide a proper citation for your literature search. An example would be (note, some ArcNews articles don't provide the authors name, in these cases just use ESRI (the publishers of ArcNews and of ArcGIS, ArcView software):

ESRI. 2000. Bangladesh Establishes a GIS-Based Agricultural and Land Resources Information System. ArcNews. Vol. 22, No. 1.

Dhakal, A. S., T. Amada, and A. Aniya. 2000. Landslide Hazard Mapping and its Evaluation Using GIS: An Investigation of Sampling Schemes for a Grid-Cell Based Quantitative Method. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 66(8): 981-989.

Demographic and Environmental Change in Nang Rong. Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved September 20, 2002, from <http://www.cpc.unc.edu/services/spatial/nangrong.htm>

For more information on citing electronic sources see this Geography/Map Library web page on citing electronic sources.

Grades will be based on your ability to clearly state the goals of the project and identify the data used.