Submitting your final project presentation file: Please submit your final project presentation as a .PPT or .PPTX file ONLY: Most programs allow you to export presentation slides as a .ppt file extension – if you are having trouble with this, please let us know before 4:00 PM on Friday, December Read more…
Some Housekeeping Notes: Lab computers: Please do not turn off computers when leaving the lab! They get important updates at night, but only if they are left running (do log out of your personal account, though). Lab flexibility: The next three weeks of lab are going to be dedicated to Read more…
In this course we will use both QGIS, a free and open source software package (FOSS) that is developed using open standards, and ArcGIS by ESRI, the most popular desktop GIS software globally. With the software being Open Source, you can download QGIS on your personal computer (even for those Read more…
Using data from mobile phones, raster and vector data We are going to look at some GPX data (the type that comes off your phone when collecting tracks and waypoints using GPSLogger, OpenGPX, and other methods (like GPS units). We will then take it into QGIS and ArcPro to do Read more…
Raster data as spatial layers We are going to look at some different types of raster data today as well as exploring these data in both QGIS and ArcPro. Starting with QGIS Load the crop inventory file Open up the raster file (aci_2019_bc.tif) in the lab4/cropinventory folder in the GEOG204 Read more…
Working with ArcPro This week’s lab is going to use ArcPro, a world leading GIS software used by industry, government and many commercial companies. ArcPro and QGIS are very similar in how they work and the layout of the software. Starting the software is the same as others, under the Read more…
Topics: Starting to think about projects and searching for pertinent information Devising a model to solve a geographical problem Access to spatial and attribute data through the UNBC Library Defining Stats Can boundary files and connecting data to them Building a query that exemplifies our model Visual overlay of data Read more…
Making use of text data, tables and digitizing Learning objectives: Importing and displaying coordinates from a .csv (text) file Joining tabular data to spatial data Saving data to different formats Creating lines from points and polygons from lines Creating new shapefiles Digitizing data Taking tabular data and bringing it into Read more…