GIS Short Courses

Department of Food and Resource Economics
College of Agricultural Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19717

(302) 831-2511

The Department of Food and Resource Economics offers occasional one-week introductory short courses in Geographic Information Systems.

Introduction to AtlasGIS version 3 for Windows (Instructor: J. Sparco)

Topics include:

• origins and concepts of GIS
• spatial elements in a GIS
• basics of cartography
• AtlasGIS file structures
• thematic mapping techniques
• data sources--Census, USGS, etc.
• mapping Census data
• display management
• digitizing
• importing and using TIGER and DLG data
• AtlasGIS edit functions
• unions, splits, buffers and other layer manipulations
• address-matching
• hardcopy output
• introduction to spatial statistics
• AtlasGIS macros
• hardware options
• Internet access
• Internet resources

Introduction to GRASS 4.1 (Instructor: J. Mackenzie)

Topics include:

• Unix basics
• raster vs. vector elements
• overview of GRASS modules
• map display functions
• raster manipulations
• statistics and report generation
• the GRASS map calculator
• raster analysis functions
• GRASS file management
• regions, mapsets, resolutions and projections
• importing DEM and LULC data
• vector modules
• importing TIGER and DLG data
• hardcopy output
• processing satellite and NHAP imagery
• GRASS shell scripts
• Internet resources

Enrollment in each session is limited to 10 students.
Classes meet 9 AM--4:30 PM Monday-Friday in Room 220, Townsend Hall, Newark campus.

Course Fee: $800 All course materials included.
Make checks payable to: "University of Delaware"

Mail or fax registration to:
Ms. Suzanne Dohl
Dept. of Food & Resource Economics
College of Agricultural Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19717
fax: (302) 831-3651
phone: (302) 831-1312

Please register early. You may cancel your registration for a full refund until the day before the start of your class. We reserve the right to cancel classes with inadequate enrollment.

The Spatial Analysis Lab uses computer site facilities in the College of Agricultural Sciences:

• 2 Sun SPARC 10 workstations
• 12 80486SX/33 microcomputers with ethernet connections
• 10 pentium microcomputers with digitizers, CD-ROM drives and ethernet connections
• 3 MacIntosh Centris 610 microcomputers
• 18 networked X-terminals
• 4 networked B&W laser printers
• HP Deskjet 1200C/PS color printer

University campus computer resources include:

• Campus-wide fiber-optics network
• 1 SGI Power Challenge supercomputer
• 2 20-processor Sun SparcCenter 2000's
• HP 650C color printer
• QMS color laser printer
• On-line University Library catalogs, Student Information System, AgInfo
• Ethernet access to the Internet and state-of-the-art information retrieval

The Spatial Analysis Lab currently uses four Geographic Information Systems:

• AtlasGIS, a PC-based commercial vector GIS with strong database linkages.
• GRASS 4.1, a UNIX-based public-domain raster (grid) GIS with excellent resource modeling and environmental simulation capabilities.
• IDRISI, a PC-based raster GIS.
• ArcInfo, a UNIX-based vector GIS under University-wide license.

Spatial Analysis Lab staff:

• John Mackenzie, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Resource and Environmental Economics
• John L. Sparco, Ph.D., GIS Instructor and Research Associate
• Rodolfo V. Tanjuakio, Ph.D., Research Associate

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