Provisional schedule! Lab sessions filling in incrementally....
Schedule of Lectures, Labs, and Readings => Due dates are elsewhere... | ||
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Date | Topic | Readings |
6 Jan. | Objectives and Expectations; Tobler Analytical Cartography | Syllabus Web pages; Tobler |
8 | Cartographic data structures and simple calculations | [Bowyer handout]; Wise Ch2,3 |
8/9 | Lab 1: Create login on Geography servers (official policy); Opening a script | |
13 | Intersections [CROSS]; Line generalization; REDUCE | Douglas It Makes me so CROSS; Douglas & Peucker; Exploring p. 82-86 |
15 | Software environments and Object technology | Smallworld whitepaper: Some Objectivity Please; |
15/16 | Lab 2: ArcObjects methods/procedures; assign code to analyze | |
20 | Martin Luther King holiday | |
22 | Geometric measures and their limits; fractals too | Wise Ch4 & handout |
22/23 | Lab 3: Dividers exercise; code analysis | |
27 | Algorithmic Analysis | Wise Ch 5 |
29 | Avenue scripts (Gene Martin) | |
29/30 | Project work | |
3 Feb | Geodesy and Datums; Resources for geodesy | (Exploring p. 17-19); NIMA Geodesy for the Layman |
5 | Projections: Theory and Geometry | Snyder |
5/6 | Lab 4: Field work: plane table exercise | |
10 | Computing Projections and Registration | Exploring p. 72-77; [Petersohn code] |
12 | Raster data structures and algorithms | Wise Ch 6 & 7 |
12/13 | Datum/ Projection wizardry | |
17 | Presidents's Day Holiday | |
19 | Spatial indexing | Wise Ch 8 |
19/20 | Project review | |
24 | WHIRLPOOL: tour of complex data structures | Whirlpool paper |
26 | SDTS; VPF; Open GIS; why another standard? | |
26/27 | Project support (review status of contracts) | |
3 Mar | The next generation? | |
5 | No lecture (NC at AAG) | |
5/6 | more project work | |
10 | Review of Analytical Cartography | |
12 | Presentations | |
12/13 | Presentations and demos | |
17 | FINAL EXAM 2:30-4:20 PM; 271 MGH |
Version of 12 March 2003