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Instructors:

Stace Maples

(maples@stanford.edu) / Stanford Slack: @mapninja 

Lucy Culpepper Edy

(lcedy@stanford.edu) / Stanford Slack: @Lucy Edy

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann

(jkupperm@stanford.edu) / Stanford Slack: @Jkupperm

Waldo Tobler's 1st Law of Geography

"everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things."

Stace's 1st Law of Geography

Everything is somewhere, and that somewhere matters."

Learning Objectives

The goal of this course is to provide students with hands-on experience in using the latest geospatial methodologies, and to establish the foundation for students to use “spatial thinking” and spatial technologies to enhance their future research and work.

Methods of Instruction

Live & asynchronous lecture & demonstration, weekly asynchronous & live computer labs, mini-project, in-class collaboration, discussion and guest speakers.

Lectures:  

Monday, 10am – 11:20am 

• Attendance is highly encouraged, but not required.
• Pre-recorded lectures will be provided at least 1 week prior to class meetings.
• Class meetings will provide
  • live overview of the pre-recorded lectures
  • Q&A

Live Lecture Sessions will be recorded and posted to Canvas

Labs:

Wednesday, 10am – 11:20am 

• Attendance is highly encouraged, but not required.
• Recordings of Lab Sections will be sent to Canvas after each lab meeting
• Lab meetings will provide
  • live overview of the Lab Assignment
  • Demonstration of skills required to complete
  • Q&A

There are 7 mandatory lab assignments for the class.

• The labs are essential for integrating theory from lecture with hands-on experience.
• Labs are assigned each week in the lecture session and due the following week.
• All labs must be uploaded to the Canvas class website by the deadline specified in class. 
• For most lab assignments, students should plan on working one to two hours.

Remember to always contact the instructor or TA before, or if, you miss anything.

Final Mini-Project

• Project proposal – (max 1 page, or 500 words) - due Week 4:
• Final report (max 2 pages, or ~1000 words, excluding maps & figures) – due Week 10:
• Final Presentation - Each project submission should be accompanied by a final presentation of their project, to be submitted as a short (less than 5 minutes) video.

Schedule

Grading

Lab exercises                               50%

Project Proposals                         10%

Final Project                                 30%

Project Presentations                   10%

Dates to Remember:

Project Proposal Due: Friday, Oct. 9, Week 4

Project Report Due: Wednesday, Nov. 18th, Week 10

Office(less) Hours:

TBD

At least 3 Office Hours sessions per week, at widely different day/times.

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slack

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Textbooks:

Required: Bolstad, Paul. GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems. Sixth Edition

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Highly Suggested: Tomlin, C. Dana. GIS and Cartographic Modeling. 2013

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Required: Bolstad, Paul. GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems. Sixth Edition

Buy it on Amazon

Find it on Searchworks

Highly Suggested: Tomlin, C. Dana. GIS and Cartographic Modeling. 2013

Buy it on Amazon

Read it on Searchworks

Technology Requirements

This course is about using technology in research, and so will require some basic computer access.

At a minimum, students will need

• Access to the internet
• A laptop or desktop computer capable of running a modern web browser
• A mobile-phone for the Field Data Collection Lab assignments.

Software and data will be provided, and Stanford-provided storage (Google Drive, box.com (Links to an external site.), etc…) should be sufficient for all labs and projects.

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