COURSE 2000
Delivering RS/GIS training in
Classrooms
by
Eddie Hanebuth
Digital Quest Inc.
Toll Free 877-4REMOTE
Eddieh@Digitalquest.com
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Today
• Mississippi Model
– Work in process
• Create Standards
– What can we work from?
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Mississippi Tech Prep
• 7th Grade Career Discovery
– Covers uses of GPS and discussions of
careers in RS/GIS
• 8th Grade Computer Discovery
– Hands on Computer applications of
RS/GIS
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Mississippi Tech Prep
• 9th Grade Technology Discovery
– Spatial Technology Module, a 10- hour
“rotational” module.
• 10th Grade Technology Applications
– Applications of RS/GIS
• Science and Technology
– Community College Intro to RS/GIS
course
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General Levels of Current
GIS/RS Training.
• Survey Courses
• Skill Building
• Application
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General Levels of Current
GIS/RS Training.
• Survey Courses
– Learn about RS/GIS/GPS
• Intro level courses not skill building
• Rich sets of examples
• Shows wide range of GIS/RS examples
– Good for all levels of students
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General Levels of Current
GIS/RS Training.
• Skill Building Courses
– Learn how to use the tools
• GIS Software
• Remote Sensing Software
• GPS and surveying tools
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General Levels of Current
GIS/RS Training.
• Local Application Courses
– Are taking many forms
• Geographic area specific
• Industry Specific
• General Process Training
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What is needed!
• Standards Based Courses
– Teach the Process of creating and working with
a RS/GIS project.
• Include…
– Survey course
– Skill Building
– Local Application Projects
• Based on a national Standard(s)
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What is needed?
• Standards Based Courses (NSDI)
– Learn how to find list and describe data
– Be able to work with the Seven Primary
Information Layers
– Create and integrate your own data
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Teach How to Share Data
Slides and information by Susan Radke
at the Berkley GeoResearch Group
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Learn how to find list and
describe data
• The Federal Geographic Data Committee coordinates the
development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure
(NSDI). The NSDI encompasses policies, standards, and
procedures for organizations to cooperatively produce and
share geographic data. The 17 federal agencies that make
up the FGDC are developing the NSDI in cooperation with
organizations from state, local and tribal governments, the
academic community, and the private sector.
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What is the NSDI?
National Spatial Data Infrastructure
Executive Order 12906 April 13, 1994
Consistent means to share geographic data among all users
NSDI is defined as the technologies, policies, and
people necessary to promote sharing of geospatial
data throughout all levels of government,
the private and non-profit sectors, and the
academic community.
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How does the NSDI Clearinghouse work?
NSDI
Gateway
…it is a decentralized system of servers located on the Internet which
contain field-level descriptions of available digital spatial data.
This descriptive information, known as metadata, are collected
in a standard format to facilitate query and consistent presentation
across multiple participating sites.
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Why Metadata ?
Each set of geospatial data has one record of metadata
stored for it.
Each node stores numerous metadata records about all
of the geospatial data associated with it. All metadata
records record the description of the data in the same way.
This metadata set is the catalogue of all geospatial data
associated with the node.
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Once the node is linked to the NSDI Clearinghouse,
anyone can query the metadata on it to find
information about the geospatial data associated
with it.
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Sample Metadata Fields
Originator
Theme/place
search keywords
Point of
contact
Publication Date
Browse
Graphic
Data set title
Project/Data Abstract
Presentation Format
Spatial Domain
Time
Period
Data Source
Access
guidelines &
constraints
Project Description/Purpose
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Search NSDI Clearinghouse for
Geospatial Data
(www.fgdc.gov)
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Search NSDI Clearinghouse for
Geospatial Data
(www.fgdc.gov)
Full Clearinghouse search results:
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Search NSDI Clearinghouse for
Geospatial Data
(www.fgdc.gov)
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What is the K12 Geospatial Data
Clearinghouse Node?
www.bgrg.com/k12node
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How does the K12 Geospatial Data
Clearinghouse Node work?
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Why is the K12 Geospatial Data
Clearinghouse Node important?
Enables students to prepare geospatial data in compliance with
federal standards for data collection, storage, transfer and
indexing.
Links students and their data to worldwide geospatial data
community.
Provides opportunity for students to perform
comparative studies using geospatial data collected by
other students implementing similar geospatial studies
(eg. GEODESY, Kids in Creeks, Adopt a Watershed,
GREEN Rivers).
Provides ongoing internet-based catalogue of
K12 GIS projects.
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Incorporating GEODESY Datasets into
the K-12 Node
www.bgrg.com/k12node/geodesy/data
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Incorporating GEODESY Datasets into
the K-12 Node
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Incorporating GEODESY Datasets into
the K-12 Node
Browse graphics from metadata record:
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Incorporating GEODESY Datasets into
the K-12 Node
Browse table from metadata record: (www.bgrg.con/geodesy/datalist.html)
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How to get K-12 GIS Data via the Node
www.digitalmississippi.org
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Seven Primary Information
Layers
Must be able to work with Standard Data Layers.
Special Thanks to
Ron Birk from INTERMAP for the examples.
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• Elevation - refers to a spatially referenced
vertical position above or below a datum
surface
– Includes:
• Elevations of Land Surfaces
• Depths below Water Surfaces
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• Geodetic Control - provides the means for
determining locations of features referenced
to common, nationally used horizontal and
vertical coordinate systems.
– It is essential ingredient in developing a
common coordinate reference for all
other geographic features
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• Hydrography Surface Water
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Stream/River
Lake/Pond
Wash
Shore Line
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• Cadastral - (PLSS) Public Land Survey
System.
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Military reservations
National forests
State parks
and Others
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• Transportation
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Center lines of roads with id code, name and number attributes
Trails with feature id code (name and type)
Railroads with id code and type
Waterways with feature id code and name
Airports with feature id code and name
Ports with feature id code and name
Bridges and Tunnels with feature id code and name
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• Governmental Boundaries
– Nation, States, and….
• Statistically equivalent areas including
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Counties
Incorporated places
Consolidated Cities
Functioning and legal minor civil divisions
American Native Regional Corporations
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• Digital Orthoimagery is a georeferenced
image prepared from a perspective
photograph or remotely sensed data in
which displacements of images due to
sensor orientation and terrain relief have
been removed.
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Collect your own data
• Where do you find it?
• How do you create your own?
• How do I integrate the data into existing
data?
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Even if you link to national
standards you must Make it
interesting to your students!
• Use Local Data including pieces of all the
primary data areas.
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High Resolution Satellite Imagery.
Layers and Layers of GIS data
Multi spectral imagery
Use local Applications as Projects.
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Come to my breakout
session tomorrow and I will
show you how.
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Credits
USGS