ESI Metadata

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1
walls and other solid structures (least sensitive shoreline type)

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2A
Scarps/steep slopes in clay

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2B
Wave-cut clay platforms

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3A
Fine-grained sand beaches

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3B
Scarps/steep slopes in sand

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4
Coarse-grained sand beaches

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5
Mixed sand and gravel or shell beaches

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6A
Gravel or shell beaches

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6B
Exposed riprap structures

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7
Exposed tidal flats

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8A
Sheltered riprap structures

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8C
Sheltered scarps

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8D
Sheltered rocky or karst shores
New shoreline type added by William White to describe karst outcrops in Baffin Bay, Texas

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9
Sheltered tidal flats

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10A
Salt and brackish marshes

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10B
Freshwater marshes (herbaceous vegetation)

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10C
Freshwater swamps (predominantly woody vegetation)

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10D
Mangroves or woody vegetation in salt water

Extra Credit

Two ways to earn generous heaps of extra credit in this class.

First, 2 points will be added to your overall final grade every time you attend a Library-sponsored GIS workshop. This is a poptential 6 points added to your final, overall grade. First one is this Thursday! Awesome if you can make it.

Second, 5 points will be added to your final overall grade for each student who volunteers to create a poster for this year's GIS Day activities. More information here: http://library.uta.edu/gisday.
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Title: Consumer Data, Demographics & GIS
Description: Come and have fun learning about geographic information systems (GIS) and the various types of socio-economic data we all have access to. This hands-on workshop requires no GIS experience. Open to everyone.

Time: Thursday, Septerber 23, 3-5pm
Location:Central Library, B20

Title: GIS in 3D: Flythroughs, Topo, & CAD
Description: Learn how geographic information systems (GIS) can build interactive 3D terrain models and work with topographic and even CAD data. This hands-on workshop requires no GIS experience. Open to everyone.

Time: October 14, 3 - 5pm
Location: Central Library, B20

Title: A New Hogwarts Extension in North America
Description: Like Harry Potter but wish there was a Hogwarts extension campus here in North America? Me too! Learn how geographic information systems (GIS) can help identify the best location to build such a campus of wizardly learning. This hands-on workshop requires no GIS or experience. Open to everyone.

Time: Thursday, November 17, 3-5pm
Location:Central Library, B20

Class Plan (09/20)

!! CLASS ENDING 630PM !!

!! NO HOMEWORK DUE NEXT WEEK !!

Plan for Today's Class

1. Explore datasets for Coast Guard site selection project.
- Texas General Land Office: GIS (source) (backup)\
- GLO NRI Data
- A good background map (base map) is: Geography Network/Census 2000 ArcIMS layer

2. Class Exercize:
We are the xSkaters and need to find a cool place in Tarrant County to practice our downhill skateboarding.

Criteria (2 cut for abbreviated class):

1. Steep slope as possible
2. Far from major roads
3. Low number of households
4. Prefer not to be within .5 KM of schools

Data:

1. Elevation (prepared NED)
2. Major Roads (Texas GLO)
3. Number of households (prepared households)
• For those of you who may have concerns about how/where to access the demographic data for your projects, use this file!
  
4. Schools (TEA)

To convert a file's coordinate system, use ArcToolbox/Data Management Tools/Projections & Transformations/

Coast Guard Project Due Oct 4

Coast Guard Project Due Oct 4

Class Plan (09/13)

1. Review homework & ensure everyone is member of team.
2. Introduce the Spatial Analyst Toolbar
3. Explore Surface Analysis functions
1. Download 30-meter DEM for Arlington Quad from TNRIS. [DIRECT LINK]
   
2. ArcGIS can not read DEM (digital elevation models). It must be extracted to a location on your computer with no spaces in the path. Then use ArcToolbox/Conversion Tools/To raster/DEM to Raster
   
3. Create contour lines, slope, aspect, and hillshade.
4. Class Exercise: Where in the D/FW Metroplex should we open a new pizzeria?
1. Download materials here
1. We will be following (kind of) the Guide_WithoutGeoprocessing.doc.
2. Same dataset we used last class and homework.

HW (Due 09/20)

1. E-Book (Using Spatial Analyst) (on-campus access) -- Through page 39. Take screenshot of results of the Quick-Start tutorial (new school) and bring to class.
• Access Book (on-campus only)
• Accompanying Data
  


2. (Add team members on this paper) Write a 1-page paper (as short or long as you need to make it - a single paragraph or two is fine if you hit the following two points) explaining how the site suitability process works. I am looking for two items. First, I want you to explain how the process works...the steps. Second, I want you to provide an example from your research (or personal) interests where site suitability process is applicable.
   
1. Background Info
2. Examples:

Suitability Analysis with Raster Data - Part 2

Land Use Suitability Analysis for Florence Township, Goodhue County, southeast Minnesota, U.S.A.

Using GIS for Grape Suitability Analysis

A GIS APPROACH TO HABITAT RESTORATION SITE SELECTION AND PRIORITIZATION IN THE NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY HARBOR ESTUARY

1) Fossil site prediction using geographic information systems (GIS) and suitability analysis: The Two Medicine Formation, MT, a test case
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 251, Issues 3-4, 8 August 2007, Pages 354-365
Kathryn B. Oheim
Full-Text (Campus Only)

2) GIS-based land-use suitability analysis: a critical overview
Progress in Planning, Volume 62, Issue 1, July 2004, Pages 3-65
Jacek Malczewski
Full-Text (Campus Only)

3) A GIS-based multi-scale approach to habitat suitability modeling
Ecological Modelling, Volume 169, Issue 1, 1 November 2003, Pages 1-15
Ron Store and Jukka Jokimaki
Full-Text (Campus Only)

4) Integrating spatial multi-criteria evaluation and expert knowledge for GIS-based habitat suitability modelling
Landscape and Urban Planning, Volume 55, Issue 2, 10 July 2001, Pages 79-93
Ron Store and Jyrki Kangas
Full-Text (Campus Only)

Welcome to the Class

Welcome to the class!

Please note the links to the right of this page

This course is Analysis of Spatial Data, with a strong focus on GIS analysis and the automation of analysis procedures.

This is a practical course. After this course, you will be able to acquire and analyze spatial data for your own research and purposes.

Hold onto your hats folks, because this will be one heck of a 15-week ride!! No doubt it will be a lot of work, but data analysis and GIS is just so dang fun that I promise it will be worth it.

This blog should be checked regularly for any important information, such as changes to my office hours, assignment changes, or class cancellations (but don't hold your breath waiting for that one...).

What does this mean?

This means after this course, you will be able to perform a site selection analysis using weighted average ranking, create an automated model, perform viewshed analysis, perform shortest path analysis, generate 3D terrains, understand basic interpolation techniques, and more. Bottom line is that you will develop an understanding of many of the ArcGIS extensions in order to perform whatever analysis you need. This course will focus most extensively on the Spatial Analyst extension, but will also explore the 3D Analyst and Geostatistical Analyst extensions as well.

What experience do I need?

An introductory understanding of GIS and a basic working knowledge of ArcGIS. This course can, in theory, be taken simultaneously with an intro to GIS course, but it is inadvisable.

How hard will this course be?

A bit challenging. Between homework assignments, projects, presentations, and exams there will always be something to keep you busy. No worries, though, as most projects and presentations will be done in groups. A bit of a warning: The midterm will be challenging. The grade distribution on my midterms are regularly 50% 85+ and 50% 65-.

I understand it will be challenging, but will it be fun?

Yes! All class exercises and projects will incorporate real-world, practical, analysis concepts and procedures. The final project is a project of your own choosing, so you will be able to apply the skills learned to your own research/interests.

This sounds pretty good. I think you are the best instructor ever!

Yep... You're well on your way to earning an 'A' with thinking like that.

Class Plan (08/30)

Here's what I want for us to do:

1. Discuss syllabus
2. California Pizza Kitchen site selection (automated version)
1. Download data here.
2. Data must be extracted directly to the C:/ drive. (This is the default.)
3. Form teams
4. Discuss homework

Homework (Due 09/16)

Homework:

1. Duplicate pizza demo for a new Cici's Pizzeria.
1. Create a Word document containing the (1) reclassification scheme and (2) weights for each layer in the analysis. Also include a screenshot (print-screen and paste) of the generated suitability layer. (It will save you all a whole heap of time if you take screenshots of your reclassifications/weghts instead of attempting to retype them.) There is no need to print out this document or send it electronically to me. I will circulate around the room and look at each person's work next week.
   
2. If you want to follow the walkthrough, use the Guide_WithGeoprocessing.doc.

NOTES FOR CICI's HW:

There are 8 layers that the Model takes into consideration when generating the suitability layer. One of these layers is the distance to existing California Pizza Kitchen restaurants. Of course, this layer is not relevant for CiCi's.

If you assign a weight of 0 (zero), this layer is removed from the equation. So you will then have only 7 layers whose weights must add up to 1.0.

It is not necessary to acquire any additional data. You do not need to consider the locations of any existing CiCi's. Yes, many of you can generate a layer consisting of all CiCi's in the metroplex (either through ReferenceUSA or by querying/exporting the existing pizzeria feature class) but we have not yet learned how to integrate it into our analysis.

ArcGIS @ Home

Each student will receive a 12 month educational license for ArcGIS 9.3. This software includes single-use code. This means you cannot install the software on more than 1 computer.

When registering the software on your own computers, you are prompted to specify which extensions you would like to trial. You need to select at least 'Spatial Analyst', '3D Analyst', 'Network Analyst', and 'Geostatistical Analyst'. It does you no harm, however, to simply select all of them. I recommend you select them all.

From ESRI:

Please advise the students that as they register the software, they should make sure to write out the full school name in the organization field rather than using any acronyms, the word "Student", or the word "Self". When those words or initials are used, there is a delay in the registration time as it is required that ESRI manually review the registration rather than having the process be completed automatically.

It is advisable that you install ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2. You want the ArcGIS Desktop (ArcInfo, ArcEditor, ArcView) version (121mb).