Week 10 — Geoprocessing

Also this week

• Community and Professional Map Experience (Wednesday)

Presentation Slides

• Tuesday — Introduction to Geoprocessing — Introduction to geoprocessing and spatial analysis; Buffer, clip, intersect, select by location; Introduction to the Yellowstone Disaster scenario

Press F for fullscreen and P for presenter view with speaker notes.

Materials: Yellowstone movie clip

In-Class Practice

Hands-On Practice

Cities Near Rivers

This session has its own step-by-step guide: what you need, an overview, the click-by-click QGIS walkthrough, what to hand in, and the snags that usually come up.

Open the Week 10 hands-on guide →

Self-check quizzes — not graded; open them on a phone or laptop as often as you like:

• Which Tool Answers the Question? — Turning a question into a selection, what each overlay tool puts out, and the order to chain them in.

Lab Assignment

Lab 9 — The Yellowstone Disaster

Due Saturday at 11:59 pm on Learning Suite.

Reading Quiz

This week's reading: GIS Fundamentals, Chapter 9 (Basic Spatial Analysis).

Quiz 8 — Geoprocessing and Spatial Data Analysis on Learning Suite: open book. Due Saturday at 11:59 pm. See Reading Quizzes.

Note

If you see a discrepancy between Learning Suite and this page, please let us know so we can rectify it.

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