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Land/Water GIS
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ENV 761 - Landscape GIS | Spring 2025 | Instructors:
Peter Cada
&
John Fay
|
Section
Date Assigned
Number
Length
Topic
Section 0
Thu Jan-09
Lab 0.1
18:37
Lab 0 - Organizing Spatial Data (1)
Lab 0.2
10:57
Lab 0 - Organizing Spatial Data (2)
Lab 0.3
31:11
Lab 0 - Organizing Spatial Data (3)
Section 1
1.0
31:35
Project Based GIS - Intro
1.1
57:45
Geospatial Data
Tue Jan-14
1.2
47:00
ESRI's Living Atlas
Lab 1.1
20:21
Lab 1 - Intro to AGOL & Task 1
Lab 1.2
17:53
Lab 1 - Creating the map & loading data
Lab 1.3
4:53
Lab 1 - Creating a heat map
Lab 1.4
9:39
Lab 1 - Overlay analysis
Lab 1.5
7:35
Lab 2 - Buffer analysis
Lab 1.6
7:01
Lab 1 - Creating a scatterplot
Thu Jan-16
Proj 1.1.1
6:18
Proj 1.1 - Overview
Proj 1.1.2
27:06
Proj 1.1 - Missing projections
Proj 1.1.3
15:05
Proj 1.1 - Gathering Data
Proj 1.1.4
17:30
Proj 1.1 - AGOL Data
Proj 1.1.5
12:08
Proj 1.1 - Prepping for Analysis
Proj 1.1.6
20:24
Proj 1.1 - Executing Analysis
Tue Jan-21
1.3
31:41
Communicating Results
Thu Jan-23
1.4
49:02
ESRI: How Maps Work
Section 2
Tue Jan-28
2.1.1
32:44
Ecohydrology (1)
2.1.2
26:38
Ecohydrology (2)
2.1.3
15:33
Ecohydrology (3)
Proj 2.1.1
18:14
Proj 2.1 - Workspace Set up
Proj 2.1.2
20:25
Proj 2.1 - Surface Analyses
Proj 2.1.3
32:45
Proj 2.1 - Hydro Analyses
Tue Feb-04
2.2.1
15:20
Terrain Analyses (1)
2.2.2
19:05
Terrain Analyses (2)
2.2.3
31:22
Terrain Analyses (3)
Proj 2.2.1
23:52
Proj 2.2 - Watershed delineation
Proj 2.2.2
22:31
Proj 2.2 - TCI
Proj 2.2.3
32:13
Proj 2.2 - TPI, Slope Position, & Landform
Thu Feb-06
2.4
57:15
ESRI - Hydrologic Analysis
Proj 2.3.1
14:20
Proj 2.3 - Watershed Planning Units
Proj 2.3.2
23:21
Proj 2.3 - Identify riparian areas
Proj 2.3.3
25:13
Proj 2.3 - Identify floodplains
Proj 2.4
26:10
Proj 2.4 - Lab Deliverables
Section 3
Tue Feb-11
3.1
8:14
Intro to Habitat Modeling
3.2.1
22:37
Ecological, Data, & Statistical Models
3.2.2
8:56
Types of Modeling Approaches
3.2.3
21:03
Modeling Approaches 1
3.2.4
15:56
Modeling Approaches 2
Proj 3.0.1
9:55
Proj 3.0.1 - Overview: approach
Proj 3.0.2
21:54
Proj 3.0.2 - Overview: data prep
Proj 3.0.3
6:09
Proj 3.0.3 - Overview: modeling
Thu Feb-13
Proj 3.11
9:09
Proj 3.1.1 - Preparing the workspace*
Proj 3.12/3
6:46
Proj 3.1.2/3 - The Environmental Model & Proxies*
Proj 3.141
12:58
Proj 3.1.4.1 - Elevation Imagery Service Layers*
Proj 3.142
8:22
Proj 3.1.4.2 - Land Cover Service Layers*
Proj 3.143
7:17
Proj 3.1.4.3 - PRISM Climate Layers*
Proj 3.144
6:19
Proj 3.1.4.4 - Add layers to `EnvVars.gdb`
Proj 3.1451
14:37
Proj 3.1.4.5.1 - DEM Derivatives (Part 1)
Proj 3.1452
9:19
Proj 3.1.4.5.2 - DEM Derivatives (Part 2)
Proj 3.146
6:07
Proj 3.1.4.6 - Distance from Stream
Proj 3.147
8:46
Proj 3.1.4.7 - Forest Density Layers
Tue Feb-18
Proj 3.2.1
4:01
Proj 3.2.1 - Rule Based Analysis -Intro
Proj 3.2.2
11:12
Proj 3.2.2 - Model Builder Approach
Proj 3.2.3
5:00
Proj 3.2.3 - Raster Calculator Approach
Proj 3.2.4
5:34
Proj 3.2.4 - Jupyter Notebook Approach
Proj 3.3.1
3:43
Proj 3.3.1 - Introduction to MaxEnt
Proj 3.3.2
10:46
Proj 3.3.2 - Maxent Data Prep
Proj 3.3.4
4:28
Proj 3.3.3 - Running MaxEnt
Proj 3.3.4
7:34
Proj 3.3.4a - Maxent Predictions
Proj 3.3.4
7:30
Proj 3.3.4b - Maxent Response Curves
Proj 3.3.4
5:06
Proj 3.3.4c - Variable Importance
Proj 3.3.3
11:44
Proj 3.3.4d - Maxent to ArcPro
Thu Feb-20
3.3.1
13:33
Components of Model Performance
3.3.2
13:03
Measuring Accuracy
3.3.3
13:06
Sensitivity & Specificity
3.3.4
11:07
ROC and AUC
3.3.5
10:07
Tuning your model
3.3.6
12:23
Examining Missclasses
Proj 3.4.1
20:20
Proj 3.4.1 - Generating Pseudoabsences
Tue Feb-25
Proj 3.4.2
15:49
Proj 3.4.2 - Constructing a confusion table
Proj 3.4.3
14:48
Proj 3.4.3 - Examining misclasses
Proj 3.5
11:04
Proj 3.5 Lab Deliverables
Optional
52:33
ESRI - Forest-based classification
Section 4
Thu Feb-27
4.0
10:41
Intro to Landscape Assessment
4.1
38:51
Patch Geometry & Fragmentation
Lab 2.1.1
06:33
Patch Geometry Lab (1) - Intro
Lab 2.1.2
22:00
Patch Geometry Lab (2) - Creating Patches
Lab 2.1.3
16:02
Patch Geometry Lab (3) - Computing Geometries
Lab 2.1.4
16:09
Patch Geometry Lab (4) - Core Area
Lab 2.1.5
11:48
Patch Geometry Lab (5) - Disjunct Cores
Lab 2.1.6
10:23
Patch Geometry Lab (6) - Nearest Neighbor
Tue Mar-04
Lab 2.2.1
12:31
Patch Geometry Lab (7) - Running Fragstats
Lab 2.2.2
21:55
Patch Geometry Lab (8) - Interpreting Fragstats
Thu Mar-06
Spring Break
Tue Mar-11
Spring Break
Thu Mar-13
4.2.1
16:15
Intro - What is connectivity
4.2.2
11:42
Approaches to studying connectivity
4.2.3
11:46
Structural vs functional connectivity
4.2.4
07:03
Creating a cost surface
4.2.5
12:51
Least cost paths and corridors
4.2.6
21:53
Graph theory and closing remarks
Lab 3.1.1
10:43
Connectivity Lab (1) - Overview
Lab 3.1.2
9:54
Connectivity Lab (2) - Setup and initial steps
Lab 3.1.3
24:52
Connectivity Lab (3) - Cost distance & least cost paths
Tue Mar-18
Lab 3.2.1
9:54
Connectivity Lab (4) - Corridors
Lab 3.2.2
15:29
Connectivity Lab (5) - Subnetworks
Thu Mar-20
4.3.1
30:24
Breaking down threats
4.3.2
9:11
Threat taxonomies
4.3.3
9:51
Threat rankings
4.3.4
16:04
Case studies and closing remarks
Lab 4.1.1
16:59
Threats (1) - Intro & Euclidean Distances
Lab 4.1.2
13:04
Threats (2) - Decayed distances
Lab 4.1,3
21:11
Threats (3) - Threat densities
Tue Mar-25
4.4.1
20:50
Fuzzy Analysis (1): What is Fuzzy Logic?
4.4.2
12:56
Fuzzy Analysis (2): Fuzzy Logic & GIS
4.4.3
15:03
Fuzzy Analysis (3): Fuzzy Logic & GIS II
Thu Mar-27
Lab 4.2.1
17:09
Threats (4) - Synthesis with weighted overlay
Lab 4.2.2
11:14
Threats (5) - Patch attribution
Section 5
Tue Apr-01
Thu Apr-03
Tue Apr-08
Thu Apr-10