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1 UCC2: Course Change Transmittal Form Department Name and Number Current SCNS Course Identification Prefix Level Course Number Lab Code Course Title Effective Term and Year Terminate Current Course Other Changes (specify below ) Change Course Identification to: Prefix Level Course Number Lab Code Full Course Title Transcript Title (please limit to 21 characters) Credit Hours: From Contact Hours: Base or Headcount From Rotating pic: From S/U Only: From Variable Credit: From If, minimum and maximum credits/semester Repeatable Credit: From If, total repeatable credit allowed Prerequisites From Co-requisites From Course Description (50 words or less; if requesting a change, please attach a syllabus) From Rationale /Place in Curriculum/Impact on Program Department Contact College Contact Name Phone Name Phone Rev. 10/10

2 GIS 6xxx (GIS Analysis) Spring 2014 INSTRUCTORS: Dr. Hartwig Henry Hochmair (FLREC Fort Lauderdale) Dr. Amr Abd-Elrahman (GCREC Plant City) LECTURES: Wednesdays, 1:55 pm - 4:55 pm (period 7-9) Taught via Elluminate virtual classroom software (Web based) Classes begin on Wed, Jan 9; last class: April 24 FLREC OFFICE (DR. HOCHMAIR): Ft. Lauderdale Research & Education Center PHONE/VOICE MAIL: (954) hhhochmair@ufl.edu OFFICE HOURS : Mon+Tue 1-2pm or by apppointment PLANT CITY OFFICE (DR. ABD-ELRAHMAN): Gulf Coast Research and Education Center PHONE/VOICE MAIL: (813) aamr@ufl.edu OFFICE HOURS : Mon+Tue 1-2pm or by apppointment REQUIRED COURSE MATERIALS: - O'Sullivan D, Unwin DJ (2010). Geographic Information Analysis (2 nd ed.). Hoboken, New Jersey, WIley & Sons. - Mitchell A (2005). The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2: Spatial Measurements and Statistics. Redlands, California, ESRI Press. - Additional reading materials will be made available in advance through the elearning Web site. ( FURTHER RECOMMENDED READING MATERIALS: de Smith, M. J., Goodchild, M. F., and Longley, P. A. (2013). Geospatial Analysis (4th ed.). Leicester: Matador. Available online at SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: ArcGIS 10.1 and Microsoft Excel. Free 1-year student copies for ArcGIS 10.1 will be provided, if needed, for registered students. 1

3 INTRODUCTION - COURSE CONTENT and OBJECTIVES: GIS analysis involves the process of analyzing and identifying patterns in geographic data, and describing relationships between spatial features. This course introduces a number of techniques aimed at the analysis of spatial data and will be comprised of lectures and computer labs. Lecture topics include characterization of spatial data, geographic distributions, pattern identification within point and area objects, analysis of field data, spatial modeling and interpolation, regression methods, and cluster analysis. On the practical side, students will conduct spatial analysis with ArcGIS software using ArcGIS extensions, Python scripting and model builder, and Microsoft Excel spreadsheet functions. STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: At the completion of the course, the student should be able to: i. understand how spatial statistics can be used to identify and describe geographic patterns ii. select an appropriate analysis method to solve a given spatial research question iii. work with vector and raster data and conduct spatial analysis functions using GIS iv. perform Geostatistical analysis functions on spatial data using GIS v. automate and customize geoprocessing ArcGIS functionality through Python scripting and ModelBuilder RECOMMENDED COURSE PREREQUSITES: SUR 3393/SUR3393L. If these courses have t been taken, some experience with ArcGIS software from elsewhere is recommended. The Getting to Kw ArcGIS workbook provides useful introductory exercises to be better prepared for the course. Basics in statistics are essential, so is competence with personal computers and application software (MS excel). GRADING POLICY: Grade Percentage Grade Percentage A C A C B C B D B F Grading item Percentage Timeliness and completeness of weekly assignments 77% Two cumulative assignments 20% Home assignment in-class demo 3% 100% 2

4 GRADES AND GRADE POINTS: For information on current UF policies for assigning grade points, see GRADING ITEMS AND DELIVERABLES Through the semester, the students will be given 6-8 weekly home assignments and two cumulative assignments. CLASS FORMAT AND POLICIES 1. This course is a distance education course taught synchrously through virtual classroom software. Although the lectures are recorded and available online for review, attendance is strongly encouraged. Partial course credit will be given for presenting one of the home assignments to the other students on the due date, which is usually one week after the hand-out. 2. The E-Learning system should be used as the platform for written communication between students and the instructor, where the built-in or discussion function should be used. Any short-term changes concerning lectures or classes are anunced through E-Learning. Feel free to call the instructors with any questions. 3. For each assignment a due date and time is given, which is usually the beginning of the next class. 4. Lecture material can be downloaded from the E-Learning website ( at least half an hour before class starts. MISSING AND LATE ASSIGNMENT POLICIES 1. A 10% penalty per day will be applied to late assignments up to one week after they are due date/time. This means that assignments handed in late on the due date or the next calendar day get a 10% point deduction, for 2 days late this gives a 20% penalty, and so on. Assignments will t be accepted if handed in more than one week (7x24 hours) after the due date/time. If you kw in advance that you will be late for an assignment, let the instructor kw in advance (via E-Learning), and it will be decided by the instructor whether an exception can be made on a caseby-case basis. 2. Students who cant attend the class regularly need to arrange with the instructor to satisfy the in-class presentation(s) requirements. ABSENCES AND MAKE-UP WORK: Requirements for class attendance and make-up exams, assignments and other work are consistent with university policies that can be found at: USING ADOBE CONNECT SOFTWARE: GIS sessions (for the distance section) and office hour meetings (per request) will be conducted using Adobe Connect web conferencing software. The software is accessed by clicking a link posted by the instructor through e-learning. 3

5 The instructor will schedule the sessions and post the link to you earlier in the semester. You should click on the link each time you need to join the GIS or office hour sessions. The following link explains how to participate in Adobe Connect meetings/sessions. Adobe Connect only requires an internet connection, a web browser, and Adobe Flash Player version 10.1 or higher. Adobe Connect supports nearly any operating system including Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, as well as the most widely used browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. A microphone is also needed to communicate with the instructors and the students attending the session. NOTE - This syllabus is tentative and subject to change. As with all classes, you are responsible to kw the course schedule, readings & labs, and check for short term changes in the topics, dates, etc. 4

6 COURSE OUTLINE: Week 1, Jan 9 (H) Week pic Readings Course introduction, review concepts of statistics and distributions, matrix tation O Sullivan Appendix A Mitchell p (Longley ch 15.4) Week 2, Jan 16 (H) Week 3, Jan 23 (H) Week 4, Jan 30 (H) Week 5, Feb 6 (H) Week 6, Feb 13 (H) statistics review (cont.) Spatial processes, Density based point pattern measures, KDE Distance based point pattern measures, G,F,K,L, function; case-control data Cluster detection of point features; clustering with control variables Analysis of area objects, spatial autocorrelation, Local and Global Statistics O'Sullivan ch , Mitchell p 22-50, O Sullivan ch Mitchell p Mitchell p , CrimeStat manual ch. 6 O'Sullivan ch 7, ch Mitchell p (ch3) (ch4); (Longley ch , 4.5) Week 7, Feb 20 (H) Week 8, Feb 27 (A) Mar 7 Week 9, Mar 13 (A) Week 10, Mar 20 (A) Week 11, Mar 27 (A) Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) Analyzing geographic relationships, multivariate statistical analysis Spring Break Clustering and Principal Components Analysis( PCA) Analysis of field data, Surface modeling, slope gradient, TIN and raster Spatial interpolation: deterministic and stochastic models, IDW, kriging, and linear regression Week 12, Apr 3 (A) Map overlays (raster, vector) - Raster data analysis Week 13, Apr 10 (A) Raster data analysis (cont.), local Week 14, Apr 17 (A) Raster i hbanalysis h d Applications l l b l Week 15, Apr 24 (A) Automating geoprocessing through Python script H Hochmair, A Abd-Elrahman O'Sullivan ch 8.5 Mitchell ch 5 O'Sullivan ch 11.1 and 11.2 Mitchell ch 5 O'Sullivan ch O'Sullivan ch 8 (desmith, ch ) O'Sullivan ch 9, 2.4 (desmith, ch ) Mitchell ch 5 (desmith, ch. 5.6) O'Sullivan ch 11 Online book (Map Analysis): pic 22 Online book (Map Analysis): pic 23 Handouts: ESRI white papers and documentations 5

7 ONLINE COURSE EVALUATION PROCESS: Student assessment of instruction is an important part of efforts to improve teaching and learning. At the end of the semester, students are expected to provide feedback on the quality of instruction in this course using a standard set of university and college criteria. These evaluations are conducted online at Evaluations are typically open for students to complete during the last two or three weeks of the semester; students will be tified of the specific times when they are open. Summary results of these assessments are available to students at ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICY: As a student at the University of Florida, you have committed yourself to uphold the Hor Code, which includes the following pledge: We, the members of the University of Florida community, pledge to hold ourselves and our peers to the highest standards of honesty and integrity. You are expected to exhibit behavior consistent with this commitment to the UF academic community, and on all work submitted for credit at the University of Florida, the following pledge is either required or implied: "On my hor, I have neither given r received unauthorized aid in doing this assignment." It is assumed that you will complete all work independently in each course unless the instructor provides explicit permission for you to collaborate on course tasks (e.g. assignments, papers, quizzes, exams). Furthermore, as part of your obligation to uphold the Hor Code, you should report any condition that facilitates academic misconduct to appropriate personnel. It is your individual responsibility to kw and comply with all university policies and procedures regarding academic integrity and the Student Hor Code. Violations of the Hor Code at the University of Florida will t be tolerated. Violations will be reported to the Dean of Students Office for consideration of disciplinary action. For more information regarding the Student Hor Code, please see: SOFTWARE USE: All faculty, staff and students of the university are required and expected to obey the laws and legal agreements governing software use. Failure to do so can lead to monetary damages and/or criminal penalties for the individual violator. Because such violations are also against university policies and rules, disciplinary action will be taken as appropriate. CAMPUS HELPING RESOURCES: Students experiencing crises or personal problems that interfere with their general well-being are encouraged to utilize the university s counseling resources. The Counseling & Wellness Center provides confidential counseling services at cost for currently enrolled students. Resources are available on campus for students having personal problems or lacking clear career or academic goals, which interfere with their academic performance. 6

8 University Counseling & Wellness Center, 3190 Radio Road, , Counseling Services Groups and Workshops Outreach and Consultation Self-Help Library Wellness Coaching Career Resource Center, First Floor JWRU, , SERVICES FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: The Disability Resource Center coordinates the needed accommodations of students with disabilities. This includes registering disabilities, recommending academic accommodations within the classroom, accessing special adaptive computer equipment, providing interpretation services and mediating faculty-student disability related issues. Students requesting classroom accommodation must first register with the Dean of Students Office. The Dean of Students Office will provide documentation to the student who must then provide this documentation to the Instructor when requesting accommodation 0001 Reid Hall, , 7

9 Sager,Scott A From: Sent: : Cc: Subject: White,Tim Monday, May 13, :01 PM Gibson,David W Sager,Scott A; Adam R. Benjamin; Abd-Elrahman,Amr H; HOCHMAIR,HARTWIG H Re: SCNS inbox--one course Dave: thank you Thank you, Tim On May 13, 2013, at 11:51 AM, "Gibson,David W" <dgibs@ufl.edu> wrote: From: Yancey, Judy [mailto:judy.yancey@fldoe.org] Sent: Monday, May 13, :09 PM : Gibson,David W Subject: RE: SCNS inbox--one course Yes, I kw. I kw Statistics is taught in several disciplines, t just under STA. And there is overlap between history and the area studies like Latin American Studies or European Studies. I wish we could draw a line and say this content is one thing and always have courses correctly assigned, but I haven t figured out how to do that yet. It would be great if the SUR courses that cover GIS content could be numbered under GIS. Judy Yancey Program Specialist Statewide Course Numbering System Florida Department of Education 325 West Gaines Street, Suite 1401 Tallahassee, FL Phone: FAX: From: Gibson,David W [mailto:dgibs@ufl.edu] Sent: Monday, May 13, :28 PM : Yancey, Judy Subject: RE: SCNS inbox--one course Judy In the big picture, by my view, Geography has only about 1/3 of the total GIS courses many others have started GIS courses related to their discipline Urban and Regional Planning, agriculture, forestry, our Geomatics, and many others. GIS is w very spread out across disciplines the new way to visualize and store spatial data for many applications. Dave 1

10 From: Yancey, Judy Sent: Monday, May 13, :46 AM : Gibson,David W Subject: RE: SCNS inbox--one course Hi Dave. A few years ago Geography had so many GIS courses that the taxomy could t add new numbers for them and the coordinator asked to create a new prefix, GIS. I ed the rest of the discipline committee and they agreed that a new prefix would be appropriate considering the number of new courses the discipline was receiving. The coordinator and ather professor at FSU came up with a taxomy for the new prefix. Then the coordinator and I reviewed courses in the discipline and determined which needed to move to GIS. Then the rest of the discipline committee reviewed the list, made suggestions and then I created the field review changes for those courses. All that to say, the new prefix and courses changes were done by mostly. It sounds to me like we are t talking apples and apples. Do you want to change the name of the discipline? Would we want to add GEM and move some of the existing SUR courses into GEM? Or just rename SUR to GEM and create a new taxomy that would include both? The process begins just like you have done bring it up by saying either we ve run out of numbers under the current taxomy or that the discipline has changed so much that we need to create space for new courses. I just did a quick check by clicking through each of the centuries under SUR and it looks like to me that we have lots and lots of room for courses. In fact, we have courses Do you think that GEM would need more than 100 numbers? My suggestion would be to rewrite the existing SUR taxomy. I think that might be better accomplished with a meeting of the entire committee because I think that would mean renumbering the majority of SUR courses. These are questions off the top of my head. I think we would need to contact the rest of the committee to get their opinions. I ll be glad to send out an to them. Tell me the questions or comments that I should include. Thanks. Judy PS: Let me send you a couple of reports so that we can see all of the current courses and taxomy. It will take me a little while to compile these. Judy Yancey Program Specialist Statewide Course Numbering System Florida Department of Education 325 West Gaines Street, Suite 1401 Tallahassee, FL Phone: FAX:

11 From: Gibson,David W [mailto:dgibs@ufl.edu] Sent: Monday, May 13, :26 AM : Yancey, Judy Subject: RE: SCNS inbox--one course Judy Question Our discipline is really changing from the traditional surveying (SUR) field instrument focus toward a newer identity Geomatics including spatial data capture, processing and storage (GIS). How hard would it be to create a new SCNS discipline for geomatics with something like a GEM prefix??? We could keep some as SUR, but move most of our courses to GEM? Just wondering. Dave From: Yancey, Judy [mailto:judy.yancey@fldoe.org] Sent: Friday, May 10, :50 AM : Gibson,David W Subject: RE: SCNS inbox--one course Thanks, Dave. I appreciate the explanation. I see GIS courses under several different disciplines and it is hard for me to understand sometimes why they are t all under Geography, but this makes sense.. Judy Yancey Program Specialist Statewide Course Numbering System Florida Department of Education 325 West Gaines Street, Suite 1401 Tallahassee, FL Phone: FAX: From: Gibson,David W [mailto:dgibs@ufl.edu] Sent: Friday, May 10, :28 AM : Yancey, Judy Subject: RE: SCNS inbox--one course Judy I ve returned the course. See my comment mathematical. Your number is fine. Dave From: Yancey, Judy [mailto:judy.yancey@fldoe.org] Sent: Thursday, May 09, :43 PM : Gibson,David W Subject: SCNS inbox--one course Hi David. You have one course in your SCNS inbox. It is on GIS. Should it be under Surveying or possibly send to the Geography coordinator? Thanks. Judy 3

12 Website: Login: Gibson_d Password: survey Judy Yancey Program Specialist Statewide Course Numbering System Florida Department of Education 325 West Gaines Street, Suite 1401 Tallahassee, FL Phone: FAX: