Welcome! This course (GEOS 370)<\/a> is a continuation of UBC Geography’s Introduction to GIScience (GEOS 270). You should be familiar with the material covered in GEOS 270, and that course or an equivalent is strongly recommended. Some of the topics that we will cover in this course include more advanced discussions on spatial interpolation, error and uncertainty, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and multi-objective decision making. You will gain advanced knowledge of GIScience by taking this course. GIScience often involves using particular GIS packages or frameworks, but neither is reducible to the other. If you wish to become more proficient in a particular GIS package, we can always provide more advice and you can check out options on Further Training under the Resources page<\/a>. Regardless, the conceptual frameworks and technical skills presented in this course will complement the knowledge gained by taking GEOS 270, GEOS 372, GEOS 373 and GEOS 374, GEOS 472, and GEOS 479.<\/p>\n Course material has been placed on this website and on Canvas for you to use and will be updated during the course. Best practices: before lecture meetings, read the associated notes and go into background and enrichment materials linked to each day within the schedule. Attend lecture and engage! Afterwards, review the slides and go back to other materials as needed. Note that a course textbook has been recommended for use as both background and enrichment this term, but is available online through the UBC libraries (see below).<\/p>\n Your success in this class and as someone who works with (and someday perhaps helps transform) GIS also depend on keeping up-to-date with materials and communities and new ideas on the web (including communities of practice, whether local meetups via Zoom or discussions on GIS Stack Exchange<\/a> or finding new software on GitHub<\/a>).<\/p>\n Instructor:<\/strong> Prof. Luke Bergmann TA:<\/strong> Baifei Ren Teaching team response time: As a teaching team, we will make every effort to respond within 24hrs during typical working hours, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm. Please stick to only the communication methods listed above, we cannot guarantee messages on other platforms will be received, nor are they secure. Timing of questions becomes particularly difficult around lab due dates. Plan ahead! The best way to have questions answered is attending lab sessions and you should not count on an in-time response for questions within 24hrs of a due date. Please do not hesitate to reach out - we will respond as soon as we are able.<\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n Lecture Meetings Lecture and lab times and rooms are on Canvas. If there's inclement weather or another issue, I might have to have us meet via Zoom or in some hybrid--watch for Canvas announcements.<\/a><\/p>\n The schedule of topics is on the Schedule<\/a> page. Assessment due dates are on Canvas<\/a>.<\/p>\n We expect you to attend and engage the material, including through interactions with me and with your classmates. Active engagement is how to learn and succeed!<\/p>\n Lab Meetings Labs are an excellent place for learning, for getting to know others, and for getting work done. You must sign up for a lab section and attend your own lab's time unless the TA grants you permission otherwise. The TA will be available in person at that time and may have important things to discuss, to announce, or to demonstrate. This is also a forum to ask questions and to have them answered. If they are one-off questions, they can be answered individually, but those that are more general may be answered for all those who are attending to benefit from. You can also use geography computers over the internet to do your work, as explained in the next section.<\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n My hope is that in taking this course (that is, engaging the lectures, working on the labs and completing a project) you will gain knowledge and experiences in:<\/p>\n Questions to ask yourself when taking this course:<\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n Many online resources provide valuable insights into the subjects covered in this course. However, please keep in mind that the midterm quizzes will primarily draw questions from the lectures and Labs presented during class. Nevertheless, I still think that having a comprehensive textbook that explores these topics in depth and includes supplementary resources could be advantageous.<\/p>\n We are recommending that you obtain access to (and reference, if not read!) a copy of Geographic Information Systems & Science by Longley, Goodchild, Maguire and Rhind (4th Ed.).\u00a0 [UBC Libraries online edition - temporarily unavailable]<\/p>\n Other options:<\/p>\n A good general overview is provided by this: Geographic Information Basics\u00a0<\/a>, which covers much of this course.<\/p>\n For more detailed insights I will highlight supplemental open resources that you should review, such as the\u00a0Fundamentals of Mapping<\/a>\u00a0produced by the Australian Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) [for cartography and map projections]<\/p>\n and the online text\u00a0Geospatial Analysis<\/a> (7th edition) by Michael J. de Smith, Michael F. Goodchild and Paul A. Longley.<\/p>\n McGrew, J.C., Lembo, A.J. and Monroe, C.B. (2014).\u00a0An Introduction to Statistical Problem Solving in Geography<\/em>. Waveland Press, Inc.<\/p>\n Manuel Gimond, (2021),\u00a0<\/em>Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis, available online(https:\/\/mgimond.github.io\/Spatial\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n \n<\/div>\nInstructor Information<\/a><\/h3>
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