Copyright 2000 Digital Quest Inc. COURSE 2000 Delivering RS/GIS training in Classrooms by Eddie Hanebuth Digital Quest Inc. Toll Free 877-4REMOTE [email protected].

Copyright 2000 Digital Quest Inc.

COURSE 2000

Delivering RS/GIS training in Classrooms

byEddie Hanebuth

Digital Quest Inc.

Toll Free 877-4REMOTE

[email protected]


Today

• Mississippi Model– Work in process

• Create Standards– What can we work from?


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


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


General Levels of Current GIS/RS Training.

• Survey Courses

• Skill Building

• Application



• 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



• Skill Building Courses– Learn how to use the tools

• GIS Software

• Remote Sensing Software

• GPS and surveying tools



• Local Application Courses– Are taking many forms

• Geographic area specific

• Industry Specific

• General Process Training


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)


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


Teach How to Share Data

Slides and information by Susan Radke

at the Berkley GeoResearch Group


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.


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.


How does the NSDI Clearinghouse work?

…it is a decentralized system of servers located on the Internet whichcontain 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 presentationacross multiple participating sites.

NSDI Gateway


Why Metadata ?

Each set of geospatial data has one record of metadata stored for it.

This metadata set is the catalogue of all geospatial data associated with the node.

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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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.


Sample Metadata Fields

Originator

Publication Date

Presentation Format

Data set title

Project/Data Abstract

Project Description/PurposeTime Period

Spatial Domain

Theme/place search keywords

Access guidelines & constraints

Point of contact

Browse Graphic

Data Source


Search NSDI Clearinghouse forGeospatial Data

(www.fgdc.gov)


Search NSDI Clearinghouse for Geospatial Data(www.fgdc.gov)

Full Clearinghouse search results:


Search NSDI Clearinghouse for Geospatial Data

(www.fgdc.gov)


What is the K12 Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Node?

www.bgrg.com/k12node


How does the K12 Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Node work?


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.


Incorporating GEODESY Datasets into the K-12 Node

www.bgrg.com/k12node/geodesy/data





Browse graphics from metadata record:



Browse table from metadata record: (www.bgrg.con/geodesy/datalist.html)


www.digitalmississippi.org

How to get K-12 GIS Data via the Node


Seven Primary Information Layers

Must be able to work with Standard Data Layers.

Special Thanks to Ron Birk from INTERMAP for the examples.


• Elevation - refers to a spatially referenced vertical position above or below a datum surface– Includes:

• Elevations of Land Surfaces

• Depths below Water Surfaces


• 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


• Hydrography Surface Water– Stream/River– Lake/Pond– Wash– Shore Line


• Cadastral - (PLSS) Public Land Survey System.– Military reservations– National forests– State parks– and Others


• Transportation– 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


• Governmental Boundaries– Nation, States, and….

• Statistically equivalent areas including– Counties

– Incorporated places

– Consolidated Cities

– Functioning and legal minor civil divisions

– American Native Regional Corporations


• 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.


Collect your own data

• Where do you find it?

• How do you create your own?

• How do I integrate the data into existing data?


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.– High Resolution Satellite Imagery.

– Layers and Layers of GIS data

– Multi spectral imagery

– Use local Applications as Projects.


Come to my breakout session tomorrow and I will show you how.

USGS

CreditsCredits

Copyright 2000 Digital Quest Inc. COURSE 2000 Delivering RS/GIS training in Classrooms by Eddie Hanebuth Digital Quest Inc. Toll Free 877-4REMOTE [email protected].

Documents

set of geospatial data

sharing of geospatial

nsdi gatewaywhy metadata

rsgis training

metadata set

nsdi clearinghouse work

levels of government

record of metadata