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Earthsys144 - Fundamentals of Geographic Information Science

Here you will find the Earthsys144 and ESS164 labs, as they are completed and assigned.

Please note that exercises in this repo that have not yet been released in Canvas may be in a state of 'becoming' and that changes to the assignments may occur up to the point that I release the assignments in Canvas.

Week 01 Introductions & Cartographic Design

1. Installing QGIS (dealing with security warnings for MacOS), and adding plugins we will use for the course. 1a. Confirming access to Google Earth Engine
2. Cartography Exercise (David Medeiros) & Exercise Data (click link to download)

Week 02 Coordinate Systems & Geodesy

1. Coordinate Systems, Projections, Geodesy & Measurement

Week 03 Creating & Collecting data

1. Editing Basics in QGIS
2. Building a Field Data Collection app with ArcGIS Online
3. Georeferencing and Creating a Custom Projection

Week 04 Attributes, Tables, Relational Databases

1. Table Operations in QGIS Part 1
2. Table Operations in QGIS Part 2
3. Table Operations in QGIS Part 3
4. Relations in QGIS

Week 05 Basic Spatial Analysis & Networks

1. Buffering and Overlay in QGIS
2. Areal Interpolation using Overlay
3. Network Analysis in QGIS
4. Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine

Week 06 Basic Raster, Watersheds, Spatial Sampling & Satellite Remote Sensing

1. Basic Raster & Terrain Analysis
2. Watershed Delineation (cont' from Basic Raster & Terrain)
3. Sampling and Interpolation Methods

Week 07 APIs & Web Mapping

1. Web Mapping with Mapbox GL JS
2. Making Map Tiles with QGIS & Serving from Github
3. Geocoding with locator.stanford.edu
4. More Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine

Week 08 Cartographic Modeling & Spatial Statistics

1. Modeling Geographic Space with Google Earth Engine
2. Being John Snow - Spatial Statistics with QGIS
3. MultiCriteria Overlay Analysis

Week 09 Final Project Clinics

1. StoryMaps
   1. Creating StoryMaps
   2. Pancakes & Silver
2. Final Project