Geology 340 - Images of the Earth

Instructor	Office	Phone	E-mail	Office Hours (Fall 05)
David Dobson	Frank 215C	316-2278	ddobson@guilford.edu	Mon 9-10, Tues/Fri 12-2

Readings:

Week 1:
- Foote, K., and Crum, S., 1995 - Cartographic Communication (Read at least pages 1-5)

Week 2:
- Dana, P., 1995 - Map projections
- Garo, L., 1997 - Map Projections
- GMT manual pages (in lab handout)
- Projections info - on 3DSoftware site but cribbed from John Snyder, USGS, 1994 & 1997
- Paul Anderson, 2004, A Gallery of Map Projections (Big list of projections with examples)
- Furuti, Carlo, 1997 - Map Projections

Week 3:
- Leveson, 2002 - Resources for Geology I: Contour Maps (a little cheesy, but the information is good and the drawings are very helpful)
- GMT manual pages (in lab handout)

Week 4:
- ESRI - What is GIS? (read all sections)
- Ellis, F. 2002 - GIS Self-Learning Tool; Theory - Introduction section

Week 5:
- Ellis, F. 2002 - GIS Self-Learning Tool; Theory - Vector section

Week 7:
- Ellis, F. 2002 - GIS Self-Learning Tool; Theory - Raster section

Week 8:
- Netscape Corp., 1996 - A Beginner's Guide to VRML

Course Materials

Syllabus

Projections Slides

Contouring Slides

GPS Slides

Images Slides (Raster images and Image compression)

Midterm Review Sheet

Final Project Guidelines

Grand Canyon elevations
Stowe, VT data

Laboratories

Lab 1 - Introduction to Longitude and Latitude

Sample navigation problem

Lab 2 - Using GMT

Get GMT Package for Windows
pscoast documentation
psbasemap documentation
GMT Manual Pages (includes pscoast and psbasemap above)
If you're on a computer not in the lab, then you might want the postscript viewers:
- Ghostscript installer
- Ghostview installer
Obsolete, merged with Lab 2 handout: GMT for Windows Instructions

Lab3 - Contouring Techniques

Lab 4 - Intro to ArcGIS

Lab 4 Data

Lab 5 - More with ArcGIS

Lab 6 - Raster Data

Guilford College aerial photo
Lab 6 Data (Guilford College)
Minard's Napoleon Plot (original)
Minard's Napoleon Plot (Redrawn, from Napoleonic Literature site)

Lab 7 - 3D Visualization with VRML

Lab 8 - 3D Visualization in ArcGIS

Lab 8 Data

Lab 9 - Fun with rasters

Lab 9 Data

Information for the Final Exam

GMT Manual Pages (you can also use the handouts from Labs 2 and 3 above)
population.xyz - You'll want to click on this with your RIGHT mouse button and pick "Save As..." to get it to your local computer. It contains the population of the world split into a latitude/longitude grid
Cairo1987.jpg - image for ArcMap raster part. Right-click and Save As to get it where you can use it. Data source: USGS Earthshots project
NCTobacco.xls - North Carolina tobacco data by county. Right-click and Save As to get it where you can use it. Data source: N.C. Dept of Agriculture
NoAmIce.jpg - image for georeferencing part. Right-click and Save As to get it where you can use it. From the Quaternary Environment Network at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Web Resources

Geographer’s Craft, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder - particularly Peter H. Dana’s part
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/contents.html

Laurie Garo, Map Projections module, in Virtual Geography Department, U. of Texas at Austin (hosted at U. of Colorado)
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/virtdept/contents.html

Old ERMapper Exercises
ERMapper 3D Visualization activity
ERMapper Aral Sea Classification activity