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| Course ID: | FANR 5620/7620-5620L/7620L. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week. | | Course Title: | GIS Applications in Natural Resources and Ecology | Course
Description: | Application of GIS tools, analysis techniques, and geospatial data to natural resource management and ecology. Students develop an understanding of data and tools available to conduct geospatial analyses with specific applications to natural resource and ecology fields, and apply their new skills to address real-world problems. | | Oasis Title: | GIS Apps Nat Res and Ecology | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FANR 5620E or FANR 7620E | | Nontraditional Format: | Students will interactively work through two one-hour lectures
with the course instructor and complete separate laboratory
assignments to build on these skills each week. | | Prerequisite: | FANR 3800 or GEOG 4370/6370-4370L/6370L or GEOG 4370E/6370E or LAND 4231/6231 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | An upper-level undergraduate/introductory graduate course focusing on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) tools and analysis techniques and geospatial data for natural resource management and ecology taught entirely in a computer laboratory. Students will develop an understanding of the data and tools available to conduct spatial analyses with specific applications to natural resource and ecology fields. Students will apply their new skills to address a real-world conservation, ecology, or management problem, conduct an analysis, and present the results to the class. Students will gain proficiency in one primary GIS software, ArcGIS Pro, and will be exposed to others such as R and QGIS. Course will cover concepts, methods, and applications useful to a range of natural resource and ecology fields (e.g., forest management and planning, wildlife ecology, fisheries, water resources, recreation management, and ecology in general). | | Topical Outline: | Geographic information systems introduction, data models, file types, and common data themes
Working with vector data
Querying vector data and tables to explore attributes and spatial coincidence
Joins and Relates: joining tables together by a common field
Topological overlays: proximity and overlaying vector layers
Using ModelBuilder and Python to string together commands
Coordinate systems: datums and projections
Georeferencing an image
Generating spatial data from points, GPS data, and heads-up digitizing of aerial photographs
Working with raster data
Raster analysis methods (local, focal, zonal, global, specialized)
Single Raster Operations (e.g., density, reclassify, distance, focal, RegionGroup)
Multiple Raster Operations (e.g., Combining grids using + and *; COMBINE; change analysis)
Focal Analysis (e.g., Finding the amount of habitat within a home range area)
Zonal Analysis (e.g., how much habitat is within protected areas)
Integrating vector and raster data and analysis
Map Algebra and Raster Calculator
Specialized Tools (e.g., Interpolation, Kriging, Home Range delineation, watershed delineation) | | Honor Code Reference: | All academic work must meet the standards contained in "A
Culture of Honesty." Students are responsible for informing
themselves about those standards before performing any academic
work.
Links to more detailed information about academic honesty can be
found at these sites:
http://www.uga.edu/ovpi/honesty/acadhon.htm
http://www.uga.edu/honesty/ahpd/culture_honesty.htm | |
| Course ID: | FANR 5620E/7620E. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week. |
| Course Title: | GIS Applications in Natural Resources and Ecology |
Course
Description: | Application of GIS tools, analysis techniques, and geospatial data to natural resource management and ecology. Students develop an understanding of data and tools available to conduct geospatial analyses with specific applications to natural resource and ecology fields and apply their new skills to address real-world problems. |
| Oasis Title: | GIS Apps Nat Res and Ecology |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FANR 5620 or FANR 7620 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. Recorded lectures with accompanying slides and practical computer exercises with accompanying video shorts demonstrating the steps involved will be posted each week for students to review while completing the exercises. Each lecture and computer exercise will have associated learning objectives and study questions that will be written up as brief write-ups with supporting maps, figures, and tables to help guide and demonstrate student learning. Discussion posts and zoom sessions will be used to facilitate student learning. Student learning will be assessed through 4 open-book applications of the material learned (exams). A final project to be determined in consultation with the instructor will be used to assess each student’s ability to apply the materials covered to a novel application. Students will be able to access the course software for free but must have access to a computer able to run the current version of ArcGIS Pro or QGIS. Requirements for each software are available on the internet. |
| Prerequisite: | FANR 3800 or GEOG 4370/6370-4370L/6370L or GEOG 4370E/6370E or LAND 4231/6231 |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | An upper-level undergraduate/introductory graduate course focusing on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) tools and analysis techniques and geospatial data for natural resource management and ecology taught entirely in a computer laboratory. Students will develop an understanding of the data and tools available to conduct spatial analyses with specific applications to natural resource and ecology fields. Students will apply their new skills to address a real-world conservation, ecology, or management problem, conduct an analysis, and present the results to the class. Students will gain proficiency in one primary GIS software, ArcGIS Pro, and will be exposed to others such as R and QGIS. Course will cover concepts, methods, and applications useful to a range of natural resource and ecology fields (e.g., forest management and planning, wildlife ecology, fisheries, water resources, recreation management, and ecology in general). |
| Topical Outline: | Geographic information systems introduction, data models, file types, and common data themes
Working with vector data
Querying vector data and tables to explore attributes and spatial coincidence
Joins and Relates: joining tables together by a common field
Topological overlays: proximity and overlaying vector layers
Using ModelBuilder and Python to string together commands
Coordinate systems: datums and projections
Georeferencing an image
Generating spatial data from points, GPS data, and heads-up digitizing of aerial photographs
Working with raster data
Raster analysis methods (local, focal, zonal, global, specialized)
Single Raster Operations (e.g., density, reclassify, distance, focal, RegionGroup)
Multiple Raster Operations (e.g., Combining grids using + and *; COMBINE; change analysis)
Focal Analysis (e.g., Finding the amount of habitat within a home range area)
Zonal Analysis (e.g., how much habitat is within protected areas)
Integrating vector and raster data and analysis
Map Algebra and Raster Calculator
Specialized Tools (e.g., Interpolation, Kriging, Home Range delineation, watershed delineation) |
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