GIS Course at Sinte Gleska University:

Lakota Studies 400/600:  Special Topics:  Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Science

Instructor:  Joseph J. Kerski, USGS, jjkerski@usgs.gov, 303-202-4315

Week 9 Assignment

This week, the assignment is to do the following 3 things:

1)  Lab Exercise   - visit the link for Lab 9.  This lab involves the registration of a satellite image showing the St Francis wildfire of August 2002 on a  portion of the Rosebud Sioux lands.  You will also explore a few additional GIS functions. 

To complete the lab, highlight the whole web page with your cursor, and copy it to WordPad or your favorite word processor.  Paste the text there.  Fill in your answers, and email me the whole document when complete.  Follow this procedure with each lab.

2)  Readings.  By this time in the course, you should have read in the Longley Geographic Information Systems and Science book, the following chapters:

1 through 13

18 and 19

I also encourage you to pay close attention to the Community Use of GIS by the Navajo Nation on page 415.

3)  Begin work on your final project.   Again, this involves writing a project proposal for a GIS-based project that you are interested in carrying out.  The proposal should include:

1.  Statement of problem or issue that you will address.

2.  Why the problem is relevant and important.

3.  What the literature says about what others have done with this issue or problem.

4.  How GIS will help address the issue or problem.

5.  What data you will need and where and how you will obtain it.

6.  What analysis you will do with the data.

7.  What you will do with the results of your analysis.

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