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Lakota Studies 400/600:  Special Topics:  Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Science

Unit 10 Assignment

This week, the assignment is to do the following 2 tasks:

1)  Lab Exercise   - visit the link for Lab 10.  This lab involves a review of the GIS functions you have learned this semester, and expands your skills to include new functions.  You will tackle the problem of locating a fire tower on the Rosebud Sioux reservation using land cover, land ownership, river, road, elevation, and slope data.   

To complete the lab, highlight the whole web page with your cursor, and copy it to WordPad or your favorite word processor.  Paste the text there.  Fill in your answers, and email me the whole document when complete.  

2)  Complete work and turn in your final project.   The final project is to write a project proposal to tackle a spatial issue or problem, one that GIS methods and technology could help solve.  The proposal needs to  include:

1.  Statement of problem or issue that you will address.

2.  Why the problem is relevant and important.

3.  What the literature says about what others have done with this issue or problem.

4.  How GIS will help address the issue or problem.

5.  What data you will need and where and how you will obtain it.

6.  What analysis you will do with the data.

7.  What you will do with the results of your analysis.

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Author:  Joseph J. Kerski, Geographer, USGS, jjkerski@usgs.gov, 303-202-4315