1. GIS 1001 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

2. Instructors §Jeff Fesperman: B309, 224-0356 §Mike Phillips: B318, 224-0394

3. Texts §Concepts & techniques of Geographic Information Systems §Getting to Know ArcView GIS

4. Organization §Lecture §Lab l Exercises l Projects

5. Course Outline & Schedule §http://www.ivcc.edu/phillipshttp://www.ivcc.edu/phillips

6. Chapter 1 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

7. Definitions §“…a system of hardware, software, and procedures designed to support the capture, management, manipulation, analysis, modeling, and display of spatially referenced data for solving complex planning & management problems” (Rhind, 1989)

8. Definitions §“…a computer system capable of assembling, storing, amnipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information…” (USGS, 1997) §“…a set of computer-based systems for managing geographic data and using those data to solve spatial problems” (Lo & Yeung, 2002)

9. Definitions §a computer system that allows the analysis and display of data with a spatial component (Phillips, 2002)

10. Definitions §data: collection of facts/figures §information: data in useful form §knowledge: what you have §intelligence: what you use

11. Information System §allows the transformation of data into information via: l structuring l formatting l conversion l modeling §GIS: transforms data with a spatial component

12. Geographic Data §spatial data §referenced to “geographic space” l coordinate system grid other l projection l source land survey GPS aerial imagery §represented at a “geographic scale”

13. Geographic Information Science §approach to using GISystems §what to do & how to do it

14. GIS History §Table, page 6 §1960’s & 1970’s - mainframe computers §1980’s to mid 1990’s - mainframe & minicomputers §mid 1990’s to present - PCs & workstations

15. GIS data §types l geodetic control network: surface location l topographic base: point elevation l graphical overlays: thematic data §representation l vector: point, lines, polygons l raster: grid cells l surface §metadata l information about the data l key when sharing data

16. GIS technology §hardware l organization intranet: servers & client computer stations PCs internet l considerations processing power file size (very large) data access

17. GIS technology §software l proprietary l open standard §companies l ESRI ArcInfo & ArcView ArcGIS l Intergraph l MapInfo

18. Application of GIS §table - p 12 §academic §business §government §industry §military

19. Users of GIS §Specialist: includes programmers, designers, developers §General Users: planners, scientists, administrators (us) §Viewers: everyone (our “clients”)

20. Core concepts §figure: p 17