Week 1: Data Models Refresher

Presentation Slides

• Thursday — Data Models Refresher — What a model is, and the vector, raster, and TIN data models that every later week builds on.

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In-Class Practice

• Your professional stamp (graded, 5 points) — done in class Thursday; upload the image the same day by 9:30 am, fifteen minutes after class.

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

• Storing the World — Five questions on vector, raster and TIN: what each model actually stores, what a grid costs you, and why a shapefile is not a data model.

Lab Assignment

No lab this week.

Reading Quiz

Read Chapters 1 and 2 of GIS Fundamentals, 7th edition (Bolstad).

Quiz 1 — Basic Concepts and Data Models on Learning Suite: open book, done independently. Due Saturday at 11:59 pm — 20 points.

Note

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