Provisional schedule! Lab sessions filling in incrementally....

Schedule of Lectures, Labs, and Readings => Due dates are elsewhere...
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  


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