Civil Engineering Applications of GIS
Reg Souleyrette, Ph.D., P.E.
Eric R. Green, GISP, PE, MSCE
Tony Fields, GIS Analyst
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Your Name
Degree/Focus
GIS Experience
Something About Yourself
• This is for a grade
• Terms and concepts related to Geographic Information Systems
• Management of spatial databases, particularly those related to
Civil Engineering
• Data collection using GPS
• Use of ArcGIS to solve specific spatial problems
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Homework
Attendance
Quizzes
Exam 1
Exam 2
Poster Presentation
Final Exam?
Source:
http://egsc.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/gis_poster/; http://www.esri.com/what-is-gis/overview
• ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) publishes story
maps with three goals:
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To showcase interesting and important topics
To explore techniques and best practices for map-based storytelling
To help enable people to make their own story maps
http://storymaps.esri.com/home/
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• Course Website
• http://www.engr.uky.edu/~rsouley/CE 525/
• (class schedule updated regularly)
• ESRI’s Web Courses
• http://training.esri.com
• Must create ESRI Global Account (instructions on the website)
• Learning ArcGIS 10
• 8 Training Modules
• 24 Hours of Work
• Some class time given
• Use Certificates to “turn
in” homework
• Print or Email PDF
• ArcGIS is installed in OHR computer lab
• Instructions on class website
• Download trial from ESRI
• ISO available from UK if required – see an instructor
• To install on a MAC you must install BootCamp and Windows XP
or 7
• ArcGIS will need to be activated online every time you load the
program (instructions on website)
• For laptops, you will need to consider this when you are offline
Must be installed by Friday, Jan 11 if you want to work offcampus (instructors will be out of the office Tuesday of next
week)
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Write your name on a playing card
At any point a random card may be drawn during class
Most of these questions will be based on the training modules
They will be used to encourage class participation and
attendance
• 1. What does the acronym GIS stand for?
• 1. What does the acronym GIS stand for?
• Geographic Information System
• AKA: geographical information science or geospatial
information studies
• 2. What is a Shapefile?
• 2. What is a Shapefile?
• A file used in GIS application to display geospatial data and
attributes. Made up of a minimum of a SHP, SHX and DBF file
• 3. What feature would you use to filter a spatial database
based on a specific criteria?
• 3. What feature would you use to filter a spatial database
based on a specific criteria?
• Query.
• 4. This is a classic GIS tool for analysis of roads, pipelines and
railroads used in transportation and utility network applications.
This process generates point or linear geometry for database
record events referenced by their position along a linear
feature. What is it?
• 4. This is a classic GIS tool for analysis of roads, pipelines and
railroads used in transportation and utility network applications.
This process generates point or linear geometry for database
record events referenced by their position along a linear
feature. What is it?
• Dynamic Segmentation or Linear Reference System
• 5. What is the name of a geographic features that divide the
world into discrete square or rectangular cells laid out in a grid;
each cell can have a value that is used to represent some
characteristic of that location?
• 5. What is the name of a geographic features that divide the
world into discrete square or rectangular cells laid out in a grid;
each cell can have a value that is used to represent some
characteristic of that location?
• A Raster image.
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Intro to GIS (6 mins)
Projections (3 mins)
Las Vegas (9 mins)
Under the Hood (35 mins)
• Class presentations will be posted on the web