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GES2050 - Digital Earth - Labs

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Spring 2013

Assignment 1: Create GES2050 Course Web Site

Lab 1:
Asking Questions of Maps - Interacting with the 'This Dynamic Planet' Map

Lab 2:
Documenting the Variety of Cultural / Physical Geography in El Paso County, CO using the Virtual Globe 'Google Earth'

Lab 3: Estimating the Extent of Urban Sprawl on Long Island, NY Using the Virtual Glove 'SkylineGlobe' and Other Exciting Geographic Explorations

Lab 4:
GPS and GIS - Using Control Points Collected in the Field to Georeference a .jpg of the UCCS Campus

Lab 5:
Geovisualization and Pattern Discovery - Draping Geology and Cultural Features over Topography

Lab 6: Remote Sensing - IDRISI: Using Landsat Imagery and NDVI to Distinguish Vegetation near Pueblo, Colorado

Lab 7: Digital Terrain Modeling and Geomorphometry using Peter Guth's MicroDEM

Lab 8:
Spatial Analysis and DEMs - Mountain Geography: Investigating Colorado Fourteeners Pixel by Pixel

Lab 9: Interpolation of Airborne and Terrestrial Lidar Point Data


Labs may change. Changes announced in class and posted here.

Brandon J. Vogt PhD, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs