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LPTC / TRESTE REPORT -- Year 2

LPTC / TRESTE REPORT -- Year 2. 2006-2007 ACADEMIC YEAR. GIS / GPS: Who, What, Where, Why?. My List Land Management Fire and Rescue City Planning/Management Health / Safety Transportation Forestry History Homeland Security Border Patrol Military. Student List Land Management Fire

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LPTC / TRESTE REPORT -- Year 2

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  1. LPTC / TRESTE REPORT -- Year 2 2006-2007 ACADEMIC YEAR

  2. GIS / GPS: Who, What, Where, Why? My List • Land Management • Fire and Rescue • City Planning/Management • Health / Safety • Transportation • Forestry • History • Homeland Security • Border Patrol • Military Student List • Land Management • Fire • Hospital/Emergency • Military • Automobiles • Cell phones • Farming / Agriculture

  3. What’s the Problem? • Participants / Students identified and discussed their own needs • Result was that a common skill set would benefit all • Consistent with the skill set identified by the instructor

  4. GIS is… • GIS Market • Geospatial Technologies • GIS / GPS / RS • What is GIS • How does GIS Work? • GIS Applications • Why Should I Use GIS? • The 3 Views of GIS

  5. Skill Set / Training • What is GIS? • -- PowerPoint • Latitude – Longitude • PowerPoint & Exercises • Map Reading • PowerPoint & Map exercise • How GPS Units Work • PowerPoint • Hands-on Exercise(s)

  6. GIS/GPS What & Why? • Latitude and Longitude PowerPoint • Lines of Latitude • Lines of Longitude • Degrees, Minutes, & Seconds • Exercises Prime Meridian Equator Equator Prime Meridian

  7. Map Reading • Omaha Sectional chart • Reading an Aeronautical Chart • Aeronautical Symbols • Airport Data • Air navigation Lights • Radio Facilities • Exercises – The Identification Game • Grid Exercise

  8. Reading an Aeronautical Chart Uses of an Aeronautical Chart Maptech. Inc. (2004). What is an aeronautical chart? Retrieved from http://www.maptech.com/air/education/index.cfm

  9. Reading an Aeronautical Chart Aeronautical Symbols

  10. Grid ExerciseInstructions • Use your grid paper and latitude & longitude points to locate the following cities on the Aeronautical chart. • Decatur, NE • Homer, NE • Macy, NE • Onawa, IA • Sioux City, IA • Walthill, NE • Winnebago, NE

  11. GIS is… • The Power of GIS • Simple Query • Buffering • Thematic Mapping • GIS Software

  12. ESRI – Mapping Software

  13. Remote Sensing • Definition • 3 Types • Satellite • Airborne • Ground-based • Examples • Applications of Remote Sensing

  14. Remote Sensing – Multi Spec

  15. What is GPS • Definition • A System • Satellites • Current Applications • (How GPS Work – PowerPoint) • GPS & GIS

  16. Magellen GPS PWR Button

  17. RELATED STUDENT PROJECTS • Indigenous Plant Study • Satellite Data Inventory • Water Quality • Land Use – Loess Hills Project • Tornado Alley – • Has it moved? Enlarged? • Not changed at all?

  18. Curricular issues • Collaborating with Science Department to • Identify a project / problem that will incorporate essential concepts • Design valid assessment rubric • What to do about ‘absent student(s)’

  19. FINAL COMMENT • It’s more work to plan and set up • Love the high level of student engagement • Ability to apply science concepts in real-life situations (NOTE: slide stolen from Peg)

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