ESM 263 Geographic Information Systems

Week 8 - GIS data: sources and capture

• Lecture
  • slides: GIS Data: Sources and Capture
  • GIS data sources - examples
  • Historic topo maps
  • Misalignment Issue
• Reading
  • Bolstad
    • ch 6: Aerial and Satellite Images
    • ch 7: Digital Data
  • GPS
    • Bolstad ch 5: Global Navigation Satellite Systems and Coordinate Surveying (optional)
    • How Does GPS Work? (youtube)
    • WAAS
  • MODIS
    • NASA Video on Youtube
    • NASA - Landsat’s Orbit (youtube)
  • Landsat
    • TM
    • ETM
    • OLI
  • VIIRS
    • An Introduction to Suomi-NPP NASA VIIRS Data Products (youtube)
    • NASA Worldview (MODIS Aqua/Terra + VIIRS SNPP/NOAA20)
  • Planet Labs
    • Wikipedia
    • How I Built This (NPR)
  • US Topo Maps
    • USGS US Topo: Maps for America
    • Heads-up digitising
    • digitizing_table
• Lab
  • Zonal statistics
    • data
      • Wind: https://globalwindatlas.info/en
      • Temp: https://globalsolaratlas.info/map
      • Precip: https://geodata.lib.berkeley.edu/catalog/stanford-cg097mp2593
      • Counties: Tigerline
    • exercise 1: wind per county
    • exercise 2: land cost per watershed
    • exercise 3: Niklas likes cold rain and snow where the wind don’t blow so strange …
  • HW 3 work time
    • Fix Cannot find proj.db
    • Aligning Rasters
    • Invert Raster
• Recordings
  • Lecture
  • Lab1
  • Lab2