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

Unit 4 Assignment

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

1)  Lab Exercise 4  - visit the link for Lab 4.  The lab includes a review of some of the functions in ArcView GIS that you explored in previous weeks, with new functions such as creating a graph added to keep you moving forward.  The lab involves analyzing USA tornado data for a 40 year period.

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.  Follow this procedure with each lab.

2)  In relationship to this week's notes on representing the earth, make a list of 10 feature types in your neighborhood.  For example, a telephone pole.  Indicate the feature in 1 column and how it would be represented in a GIS in column 2--as a point, line, polygon, image, or grid.  In column 3, indicate at least 2 attributes that you think would be appropriate to collect and store in a GIS for the particular feature.  For example, you might want to know, for the telephone poles, what the material is in construction, the height, and when they were last checked by the utility company.  Send this file to me in a separate message from your lab exercise.

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