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Short Course Schedule: Spring 2003
Short courses are offered as one six-hour Saturday session.
Classes are held in C30 Hearst Field Annex unless otherwise indicated
(see map).
Note: Courses with low enrollment may be cancelled.
Beginning to GIS
A functional overview of skills needed to display, edit, perform queries, do analysis, and construct a map in ArcView 8.1. Students will become familiar with the interface and elements such as data frames, tables, charts, and layouts used to display and analyze different kinds of data. Required for the other classes unless ArcView 8.1 experience can be demonstrated.
Advanced GIS
Learn more about analytical capabilities of ArcView 8.1 by processing data in a variety of ways and bringing a variety of data types into the ArcView 8.1 environment. Also learn to locate places by address and enhance your finished product.
Using Public Data with GIS
An introduction to several data products available on the WWW, including Digital Line Graph (DLG) data, Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data, Digital Ortho-Quad (DOQ) aerial photos, Digital Raster Graphics (DRG) , Land Use-Land Cover (LULC) maps and TIGER data. Learn about the virtual locations and features of these data through a guided tour of the USGS, TIGER, and CERES web sites and download data into ArcView.
ArcIMS
The course includes a basic introduction to WebGIS architecture and different strategies to realize interactions between the server sides and client sides. Students will become familiar with the different ArcIMS components including map authoring services, interface customization, map distribution services and ArcIMS server administration.
Arc/Info 8
This class introduces Arc/Info 8 to GIS users with Arc/Info 7 (not required, but such working knowledge would be a plus) and ArcView experience. It lectures briefly on the procedure required to install this new version on campus computers, the new Arc/Info 8 features in workstation, desktop as well as geoprocessing servers, and the new concept of Geodatabase. The major part of the class provides hands-on exercise on Arc/Info 8 workstation for NT, ArcMap, ArcCatalog and ArcToolbox.
The UC Berkeley Digital Library GIS Viewer
The GIS Viewer 3.0 is a new Java applet browser developed by UC Berkeley's Digital Library Project for the display of geographical images and point and line data over the Web. The viewer has been optimized for image data quality, thus it is ideal for Campus networks for displaying maps, satellite images and air photos. The data need not be geographic; the viewer?s image features are also ideal for displaying manuscript and art images. Images can be stored as multi-resolution/multi-source composites that support smooth panning and semantic zooming (semantic zooming is where image content varies appropriate to scale—ideal for the display of map information). Image transparency is supported, thus air photos can be blended with maps. The viewer also provides for point and line data and supports database connectivity to provide feature information. The viewer also supports sharable user annotations of text and simple graphics. See http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/gis for examples. |
