Roger C. Sambrook
NISSC / GES
Tel (719) 262 4668
Email: Roger.Sambrook@uccs.edu

Introduction to
Geographic Information Systems

Click here for syllabus

www.uccs.edu/~rsambroo/GIS

Class time:
Wednesday 1:00-4:20pm
Room COB 329 (GIS Lab)

Exam Times
Take-home final – First week of December

Office hours
After class and by appointment
Room UH 134a

Grades
Posted by 4 Digit PIN. A score of zero indicates missing work. If you think you handed work in, come see me !

Cool links
The Geography Department's links to GIS data sources: http://www.uccs.edu/~geogenvs/Geo-relatedLinks.htm

A big glossary of GIS terms
ESRI's online dictionary of GIS

GES 405 / 505
Lecturer : Dr. Roger Sambrook

Welcome to our introductory GIS class. This course consists of a single session each week lasting three hours and twenty minutes..

Lecture Notes
Week 1 : What is GIS? Intro to ArcGIS
Week 2 : Representation in Geography
Week 3 : Georeferencing
Week 4 : Away – Lab but no lecture
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Week 12 :

Homework assignments
Wk 3 (9/7) Read MAG Ch's 2 & 3, Answer Ch. 2 Review Q's
Wk 4 (9/14) Read MAG Ch's 3 & 4, Answer Ch. 3 Review Q's
Both assignments are due 9/21


Articles Reviews :
First Article review (due, October 5^th)

Second Article review (due November 16^th)

To save these assignments, right click on the link, and choose "save target as" then save to your computer. You can then open (and print) the documents in your favourite editor.

Mastering ArcGIS 2^nd Ed.
Price, M (2006)

Check out the ESRI campus website

Bear in mind that this textbook was designed for use with ArcGIS version 9.0. You may encounter some minor differences with version 9.1. Let me know if you run into any insurmountable problems.

Graduate Students
Here are the project instructions