Geography 3010: Geographic Information Analysis

 

Instructor: Paul C. Sutton

e-mail: psutton@du.edu

Phone (303) 697-8692

Office: Boettcher West  #116

Typical Meeting Time: Tuesday 6-9 evenings

 

Brief Course Description

This course utilizes various spatial data sets to review some basic statistical analyses, introduce some spatial statistical analysis, and focuses on the use of these methods in a GIS environment.

(see syllabus for details)

 

Powerpoint Summaries of Chapters in Unwin & O’Sullivan Text

(note: these are prepared by previous students)

 

Lab Exercises

 

Lab #1:

Analysis of a survey on attitudes about population issues in Santa Barbara County

Lab Asssignment

Data needed for Lab #1

“Betty Crocker” instructions produced by other students.

Final Reports produced by other students

 

 

Lab #2:

Using Nighttime Satellite Imagery to Study Population Distribution

Lab Assignment

Data needed for Lab #2

“Betty Crocker” instructions produced by other students

Final Reports produced by other students

DEM, PopDen, And LandCover Grids for North America

 

Lab #3:

Spatial Interpolation: Inverse Distance Weighting and Kriging of Several Datasets including Ozone concentration

Lab Assignment

Data needed for Lab #3

“Betty Crocker” instructions produced by other students

Final Reports produced by other students