ENV 761 - Landscape GIS   |   Spring 2025   |   Instructors: Peter Cada & John Fay  

Topic	Date	In Class	To Watch...	To Do...
Course Introduction	Jan-09	Course Overview	§1.0-Intro;	Lab 0: Organizing GIS Data
		Account Set up	§1.1-Geospatial Data
		Lab 0 - Organizing GIS Data
1. Project Based GIS	Jan-14	Q&A: Lab Set up & §1.1	§1.2-ESRI's Living Atlas	Lab 1: ArcGIS Online
		AGOL Account Setup
	Jan-16	Q&A: Lab 1	Project 1.1: Overview (part a)	Proj 1.1a: Getting Data (Steps 1-4)
		Discussion: Living Atlas
	Jan-21	Guest: Jason & Megan Donaldson	Project 1.1: Overview (part b)	Proj 1.1b: Analysis (Steps 5 & 6)
		Q&A: Project 1.1	§1.3-Communicating Results
	Jan-23	Q&A: Analysis	§1.4-ESRI: How Maps Work	Proj 1.2: Assignment
		Map Critique Exercise
2. Ecohydrology/Terrain Analysis	Jan-28	Q&A: §1.4 - Project 1	§2.1-Ecoyhydrology;	Proj 2.1: Ecohydrology
		Section 2 Intro
	Jan-30	Q&A: Ecohydrology	§2.2-Terrain analyisis;	Proj 2.2: Terrain indices
	Feb-04	Q&A: Terrain Analysis	§2.3-Riparian analysis (read)	Proj 2.3: Riparian & Flood indices
	Feb-06	Guest - Jim Heffernan	§2.4-ESRI on Hydro Analysis	Proj 2.4: Synthesis
	Feb-11	Work on Project 2
		Optional: Unit Hydrographs
3. Habitat Modeling	Feb-13	Course Project Meetings	§3.1: Intro	Proj 3.0: Overview
				Proj 3.1: Data Prep
	Feb-18	Proj 3: Data Prep	§3.2: Modelling approaches	Proj 3.2: Rule based
		Data Exploration in ArcPro		Proj 3.3: MaxEnt (thru Step 3.3)
	Feb-20	Q&A - Rule Based Modeling	§3.3: Model evaluation	Proj 3.3: MaxEnt (Step 3.4 on)
		Q&A - 3.3.1 - Maxent		Proj 3.4: Model Tuning
	Feb-25	Guest: Mike Paul	§3.3: Model evaluation	Proj 3.4: Model Interpretation
		Q&A - Model Tuning & Evaluation		Proj 3.5: Assignment
4. Landscape analysis	Feb-27	Q&A: §3.4 & 3.5	§4.0-Intro	Lab 2.1: Patch geom in ArcGIS (a-c)
			§4.1-Fragmentation
	Mar-04	Q&A: §4.1 & Lab 2.1	[Guest speaker]	Lab 2.2 Patch geom in Fragstats (d-e)
	Mar-06	Guest: TBA	§4.2-Connectivity	Lab 3.1: Cost analysis
	Mar-11	Spring Break
	Mar-13	Spring Break
	Mar-18	Q&A: §4.2 & Lab 3.1	§4.3-Threats: Sensitivity & Stresses	Lab 3.2: Corridors and Subnetworks (e-f)
	Mar-20	Q&A: §4.3 & Lab 4	[Guest speaker]	Lab 4.1: Threats: Distance and densities
	Mar-25	Guest: TBA	§4.4-Fuzzy analysis	Lab 4.2: Threats: Weighted overlay
5. Stormwater management	Mar-27	Q&A: §4.4	TBA
	Apr-01	TBA	TBA
	Apr-03	Guest: TBA	TBA
	Apr-08	TBA	n/a
	Apr-10	No Class - MEM Presentations	TBA
Course Wrap-up	Apr-15	Class Wrap-up	n/a	n/a