1. 1 GIS Workshop Tuesday, August 15, 2006 Presented by David Valentine Chris Condit Presented by David Valentine Chris Condit

2. 2 Learn fundamentals of desktop mapping and GIS: from data collection/discovery to geodatabase construction to spatial analysis to presentation Understand GIS issues in cyberinfrastructure: creating spatial data services, integrating geographic data online Get familiar with software (if needed…) Course Goals

3. 3 Overview Intro and GIS basics: –History * review of software * nature and representation of spatial data * data structures * mapping * projections and georeferencing –Hands-on: Virtual Campus; ArcMap etc. demos. GIS applications and Web GIS –GIS Core: geodatabases, operations, applications (hands-on) –GIS on the Web and Web data sources (including hands-on) –GIS in GEON (the Geosciences Network) project

4. 4 Instructors David Valentine (valentin@sdsc.edu) Chris Condit (condit@sdsc.edu)

5. 5 Spatial Information Systems Lab Research and system development Services-based spatial information integration infrastructure Mediation services for spatial data, query processing Joint analysis of spatial and other types of data (survey data in particular) Spatial data standards and technologies for online mapping Regional development (modeling; data and knowledge integration) Support of spatial data projects at SDSC and beyond services In Geosciences (GEON, CUAHSI, ESRI) In regional development (NIEHS SBRP) In Neurosciences (BIRN, CCDB)

6. 6 Sources of slides: –Courses that Ilya Zaslavsky taught at UW, WMU, SDSU, UCSD –Slides accompanying standard textbooks (“Getting to Know GIS”, “Geographic Information Systems and Science”, etc.) –ESRI courses –Various online presentations Sources of data and images: –Projects that we are involved in: GEON, BIRN, others Software to be used/demonstrated: –ESRI’s ArcGIS and ArcIMS –Various code from the group projects First time doing a basic GIS talk/tutorial Slides / disclaimers