Lab Exercises

Week 1 - Useful Internet Resources

This week's lab exercise focuses on Internet geospatial resources that are either useful in helping to answer spatial questions (Activity 1: GNIS), finding data and service resources on the web (Activity 2: favorite data resources), and sample internet mapping applications (Activity 3: some online mapping applications).

Week 3 - Proj.4 and OGC requests

This week's lab provides hands-on practice working the the reprojection capabilities of the Proj.4 utilities and OGC URLs.

Week 4 - Creation of a GRASS Location

 

Week 5 - Importing Data into GRASS

This week's lab exercise provides practice in importing data into GRASS for use in mapping, modeling, and analysis.

Week 6 - Practice with GRASS

This week's lab exercise provides continuing practice working with GRASS. It is provided as a hardcopy version of Hack #69 from Mapping Hacks.

Week 7 - More Practice with GRASS

This week's lab exercise provides continuing practice working with GRASS. It is provided as a hardcopy version of Hacks #72-74 from Mapping Hacks. You should be able to do Hacks 72 and 73 based on what we have done so far. Hack 74 is provided as an additional (optional) exercise to practice with some more complex concepts and functions.

Week 10 - Grass Visualization

This week's lab provides more practice in the use of the various visualization tools within GRASS.

Week 12 - GRASS Automation

This lab revisits the work done in previous labs, this time automating the manual processes covered in those labs.

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Week 13 - PostgreSQL/PostGIS overview and background

This week's lab provides hands-on practice with SQL and database interaction through the phpPgAdmin web interface.

Week 14 - PostGIS

This week's lab exercise provides practice creating and querying PostGIS data in the class database.

Week 15 - PostGIS and OGR

This week's lab provides practice importing and exporting data from PostGIS using the appropriate OGR utilities.