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RESM 575

RESM 575. 2010 Final Project Requirement. Important deadlines. #1 Please email me a one page paper proposal due after Spring Break Explain what you are testing, analyzing, finding, exploring, etc that is spatial Describe data you have or need to get Outline methodology if known at this time.

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RESM 575

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  1. RESM 575 2010 Final Project Requirement

  2. Important deadlines #1 • Please email me a one page paper proposal due after Spring Break • Explain what you are testing, analyzing, finding, exploring, etc that is spatial • Describe data you have or need to get • Outline methodology if known at this time

  3. Important deadlines #2 • Prepare a 5 min presentation of your paper during the last week of class • Please limit slides to 5 – 7 just highlighting what you did, found, learned, or plan to do

  4. Important deadlines #3 • Final paper is due the Wednesday of Finals week by 5pm.

  5. Goal • Allow students the opportunity to apply one of the many introduced topics to their own research data or to an interest they may have for better overall understanding

  6. Major Topics or Learning Objectives of Class 1. Understand the limitations and differences between suitability modeling approaches 2. Create predictive models using appropriate techniques with spatial data 3. Analyze spatial patterns and dependence 4. Derive landscape and terrain variables as inputs for modeling

  7. General info on individual final GIS projects • All students will do a final GIS project • The final GIS project will count as the final exam • Use the project as an opportunity to demonstrate your comprehension to properly use GIS and analysis in an environmental management context. • The project or final exam makes up 40% of class grade

  8. Project • Student develops a plan to use GIS to solve or examine a spatial problem • Issue can be related to current research or interests • Student is responsible for all data needs and structure

  9. Components • Title of project with class name and student name, email • Introduction • Literature review or background info • Data • Methodology • Results • Conclusion or findings, limitations, etc

  10. Introduction • Explain the goal of your project • Explain why you need GIS to solve or gain insight, prove that you have a spatial problem not an aspatial problem • You may want to list some questions you plan to address or results expected to find

  11. Literature review • Summarize what others have done, what worked, what didn’t • Use the literature review to consider some techniques • You may want to review not just the subject but also a technique you are using in your study • I would aim for at least 4 to 8 pertinent articles • You can also use personal communications, reports, habitat suitability indices, etc

  12. Data • Provide a listing of the data used, scale, source, projection, create metadata files! • How it was collected or generated • Describe the processes you performed to create the data • For example: “land use and land cover classes were digitized from a 1995 digital ortho photo quad at a scale of 1:12,000 • Provide an overview map showing your study area in reference to other more notable features people would recognize (Show the Mon Nat Forest boundary extent over the WV county map)

  13. Methodology • What GIS spatial analysis operations did you use? • Why did you use them? • Explain the steps involved in general details (you shouldn’t mention each menu choice on the GIS interface that you used or the button that you selected) • It is a very good idea to use a flow chart or diagram of the steps involved in the modeling process

  14. Results • Show results in maps, tables, charts, statistical output, etc. Saving files as jpg or tiff and linking them to the web site is a good idea. • Clearly describe what each map is showing or telling • Maps can be placed in the document (with a screen capture) or they can be linked to a image file • What may be clear to you might not be that apparent to others

  15. Conclusion • Discuss the limitations of your study (time, data, scale, etc) • What worked, what didn’t • What you would do with more time, etc • Discuss what your findings mean (if anything) and compare it to other studies or published information

  16. Grading • Correct use of GIS techniques (0 - 25) • Quality of paper write up describing and analyzing what you did (0 -25) • Creativity in the problem solving approach (0 - 20) • Quality of maps, figures, tables, metadata (0 - 20) • Submission of proposal, presentation, pdf format, on time (0 - 10)

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