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

Unit 5 Assignment

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

1)  Lab Exercise 5  - visit the link for Lab 5.  The lab includes a review of some of the functions in ArcView GIS that you explored last week, with new functions added that are designed to keep you moving forward.  The lab involves analyzing South Dakota data to determine a site to study Stipa comata - needle grass.  The lab also includes an activity where you project one data set (geology) from one map projection to another.

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)  Write your second of 5 annotated bibliographies.   Again, each should be on an article where GIS is used or discussed in some way.  See week 3 for more details and sources for the articles.

Again, be thinking about the sources and types of literature in the geographic information sciences, how GIS is applied around the world; and about how you want to use GIS in your own work. 

By next week, you will be ready for your first Exam.  In the Longley book, read the following chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10 to be ready for it.  The exam format will be short answer and fill-in-the-blank, and you will have a week to complete it.  

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