Readings and class demos:
Week 1:
- Michael Pidwirny and Scott Jones, PhysicalGeography.Net -
Fundamentals of Physical Geography Ebook (2e)
Read Chapter 1a, 2a-f
Week 2:
- Wikipedia -
List of map projections
- GMT manual pages (in lab handout)
- Snyder, J.,
USGS, 1994 & 1997 -
Map Projections: A working manual - this is very dense, so certainly don't read it all, but the intro information and the pictures are good (Alternate link at Google Books)
- Anderson, P., 2004,
A
Gallery of Map Projections (Big list of projections with examples)
Week 3:
- Leveson, 2002 -
Resources for Geology I: Contour Maps (a little cheesy, but the
information is good and the drawings are very helpful)
- GMT manual pages (in lab handout)
Week 4:
- ESRI - What is GIS?
(read all sections)
- ESRI - A quick tour of ArcMap
- ESRI - A quick tour of ArcCatalog
Week 5:
- ESRI - What is GIS?
(read all sections)
Week 6:
Week 7:
Week 8:
- Schneider and Martin-Michiellot, 1998 -Detailed VRML Manual
- Mateti, 2000 (course notes at Wright State University) Virtual Reality Modeling Language
- Wings3D community - Wings3D User manual
Note: Absolutely no need to read all of any of these - just have a look and familiarize yourself with the introductory stuff
Week 9:
Vermont School Exercise
Portovelho deforestation data (Landsat bands numbered from 0, so 1-3 are BGR)
Silk Road on Wikipedia
Week 10:
West Virginia Coal mine images (source here)
GIMP Software (Portable installer)
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