1. Meeting with ESL Students October 24th & 25th 2007
GIS at CCP
Meeting with ESL Students
October 24th & 25th 2007

2. Presentation Overview
What are Geography & GIS?
How are Geography & GIS offered at CCP?
What type of careers exist?

3. What is Geography?
Invented by ancient Greek scholar Eratosthenes based on 2 Greek words
GEO -> Earth
GRAPHY -> to write
The study of location – spatial science

4. GEOGRAPHY IS…
Study of how “things” are distributed from place to place ~ the spatial aspect of “things” and their interrelationships
What is where?
Why is that there?
So what?
Answer such ?s from perspectives of creation, organization and utilization

5. Human-Environment Interaction
GEOGRAPHY IS…
Physical Elements
Human Elements
Climate
Population
Geology
Economics
Development
Soil
Flora/Fauna
Politics
Transportation
Water
Languages
Landforms
Religions
Human-Environment Interaction

6. What is GIS? One Definition:
“GIS is a collection of computer hardware, software, and geographic data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. “ -

7. What is GIS? GIS has Five Key Elements: GIS People Information & Data
Methods
& Business Rules
Hardware
Software

8. What is GIS? GIS Provides Three Essential Functions: Visualization
Data Management
Spatial Analysis

9. What is GIS? Key Characteristics of GIS:
Link between map features and attribute data
Ability to perform complex analysis
Functions:
Input
Management
Analysis
Output
“Smart” Maps

10. What is GIS? Why Use GIS? Answer questions & make decisions
Integrate disparate data
Map:
Where things are
Quantities
Densities
What’s inside/nearby
Change

11. What is GIS?
Why Use GIS?
Databases are hard to interpret while “a picture is worth a thousand words”

12. GIS answers the following:
What is GIS?
GIS answers the following:
Location: What is at...?
Condition: Where does this happen?
Trends: What has changed since...?
Patterns: What spatial patterns exist?
Modeling: What if…?
Exploring with GIS turns data into information into knowledge

13. GIS connects graphics to data
What is GIS?
GIS connects graphics to data

14. GIS presents layers of information
What is GIS?
GIS presents layers of information

15. History of GIS
Dr. John Snow, 1854

16. History of GIS Timeline: 1959: Waldo Tobler develops MIMO
1963: Roger Tomlinson initiates Canada Geographic Information system (CGIS)
1963: Urban and Regional Information Systems Association is formed
1964: Harvard Lab for Computer Graphics is established
1967: United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) develops AUTOMAP
1969: ESRI & Intergraph formed, creating the first GIS companies
1972: First Landsat satellite launched
1978: Global Positioning System (GPS) project launches first four satellites
1979: Harvard labs develop ODYSSEY GIS, the first vector GIS

17. History of GIS Timeline (cont):
1980: Dana Tomlinson develops MAP, a popular raster GIS
1982: ESRI launches ARC/INFO
1987: The International Journal of Geographic Information Systems is published
1988: US Bureau of Census releases publicly-available TIGER digital data
1993: First Web-based interactive map developed by Steve Putz
1999: GIS Day celebrated for the first time
2006: More than 15,000 people from over 120 countries attend the 26th Annual ESRI International User Conference

18. What has influenced GIS Development?
History of GIS
What has influenced GIS Development?
Information Technology
Computer hardware
Software development
Costs
Public Consciousness
Social awareness
Academic theories

19. What is ArcGIS? (GIS software at CCP)
Introducing ArcGIS
What is ArcGIS? (GIS software at CCP)
Integrated collection of GIS software products
Designed and developed by ESRI
World leader in GIS
In business since 1969

20. Introducing ArcGIS What can ArcGIS do?
Menu bar
Collection of software products that:
Navigation Tools
Scale
Create
Edit
Import
Map
Table of Contents
Query
Analyze
Publish
Coordinates

21. Users of GIS Who is using GIS? Business Defense Education
Emergency Services & Law Enforcement
Engineering
Government
Health & Human Services
Natural Resources
Transportation
Urban & Regional Planning
Utilities
Endless
list of
GIS-based
careers
Wherever there is a need to analyze spatial data!

22. Courses/Programs in development !!
Geospatial Tech at CCP
Three Programs:
A.A.S. Degree
Certificate
Professional certificate
Courses/Programs in development !!

23. Geospatial Coursework at CCP
Physical Geography GEOG 101
Human Geography GEOG 103
Urban Geography GEOG 180
World Regional Geography 222
Earth Science EASC 111
Geographic Information Systems GIS 101

24. Are GIS courses only for GIS majors ?
No…students with other majors may wish to take a few GIS courses to supplement their technical skills.

25. Do you meet the following characteristics?
Is Geospatial for YOU?
Do you meet the following characteristics?
Technical skills
Enjoy solving problems
Like to work with computers
Can think spatially (2D & 3D) & critically
Try/learn new things (pioneer)

26. For more information…
My contact information: Jamie Picardy Office: W4-6