Week 1

• Introduction to course
• Bits/ bytes, and pixels/rasters
• Computing values of bytes and integers
• Raster display
• Histograms, LUT's, and histogram manipulation
• Macros in Idrisi
• Very brief introduction to Unix commands
• For those who are interested, here are links to Unix tools and tips
• Spatial (pixel size) and radiometric (data type) resolution
• Computing file sizes and spatial extents
• Some cool raster examples
• Essential math (e.g. basic trig)
• Key points
• Demos
  • Arcview image enhancement through LUT maninputation
  • Macros in Idrisi
  • DOS command prompt, paths, and installation of Unix commands

Week 2 [Top]

• Data flow diagrams
• Data types (byte, integer, real) [CONVERT]
• File types (ASCII, binary, packed binary) [Show File Contents]
• Measurement scales (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)
• Discrete and continuous data
• Importing raster data and file structures [BILIDRIS]
• Image statistics
• Histograms and histogram stretching [HISTO and STRETCH]
• Image probing and profiling [Cursor inquiry and PROFILE]
• Playing with pallettes [Palette workshop]
• Lab
• Key points

Week 3 [Top]

• Importing vector data [SHAPEIDR (bug), ARCIDRIS]
• Creating vector data for IDRISI
• Rasterization [POINTRAS, LINERAS, POLYRAS]
• Vectorization [POINTVEC, POLYVEC]
• Line generalization [LINEGEN]
• Hand out Assignment 1
• Using DOS Batch files and Idrisi Macros
• Key points
• Web page authoring with Netscape Gold

Week 4 [Top]

• Regression analysis with rasters [SCATTER and REGRESS]
• Trend analysis [TREND]
• Cross-tabulation / cross-classification [CROSSTAB]
• Lab
• Key points

Week 5 [Top]

• Spheroid, Ellipsoid, and Geoid defined
• Map Projections and Datums (Geodesy)
• Georeferencing [PROJECT and RESAMPLE]
• Shifting, windowing, changing pixel sizes
• [EXPAND, CONTRACT, WINDOW, RESAMPLE, TRANSPOS]
• For those who are interested, here are links to Unix tools and tips
• Georeferencing Lab
• Key points

Week 6  [Top]

• Local, focal, zonal, and global processing (Context operations)
• Changing and grouping pixel values [RECLASS and ASSIGN]
• Image overlay [OVERLAY]
• Image filtering [FILTER and SURFACE]
• Identifying unique groups of pixels [GROUP]
• Distance computations [DISTANCE]
• Extracting zonal statistics [EXTRACT]
• Context operator labs (PART I - Some examples; PART II - A Case Study)
• Key points
• Assignment #1 Due

Week 7  [Top]

• Notes for this lecture
• Creating digital elevation models (DEM) and other surfaces
• Interpolation (creating rasters from points and lines/contour) [INTERPOL (bug) and INTERCON]
• Sample spacing and image resolution (e.g. Shaded relief magnetics)
• Autocorrelation and semi-variograms [AUTOCORR and CONTRACT]
• Analyzing point densities [QUADRAT]
• Interpolation lab
• Key points

Week 8  [Top]

• Mid-term test

Week 9  [Top]

• Human Visual System
• Colour models (RGB, HSV/IHS, CMY, CMYK)
• Colour model transformations [COLSPACE and COMPOSIT]
• Integrating shaded relief imagery with other imagery [SEPARATE, ILLUMINATE]
• Visualizing DEM and other 2.5-D data (image draping) [ORTHO]
• Colour models and colour composites lab
• Key points

Week 10  [Top]

• Midterm and Assignment review
• WebGIS (Optional)
• Unix and AWK
• Selected Unix tools for Windows
• Pseudo-lab to help excercise problem-solving muscle

Week 11  [Top]

• Creating DEMs [INTERCON]
• Analyzing DEM data [FILTER and SURFACE]
• Watershed analysis [WATRSHED]
• Visibility analysis [VIEWSHED]

• Logical Overlay [OVERLAY, Image Calculator]
  (Raster Venn diagram to practice on)
• Binary and fuzzy membership [FUZZY]
• Buffering [DISTANCE and BUFFER]
• Lab
• Key points

Week 12  [Top]

• Introduction to cost analysis [COST, VARCOST, and ALLOCATE]
• Cost analysis concepts
• Identifying closest pixels to source/target locations [THIESSON]
• Pathway analysis [PATHWAY]
• Combining or decomposing forces [RESULTAN and DECOMP]
• Lab
• Key points
• Hand out Assignment #2

Week 13  [Top]

• Rasters and databases [Database Workshop]
• Key points

Week 14  [Top]

• Important stuff
• Assignment #2 Due
• Free lab to:
  1. review for Lab assignment next week
  2. prepare review questions for next weeks "Review for the final"
  3. go home and rest up

Week 15 [Top]

• Review for the final
• Lab Assignment (due at end of lab)

Week 16  [Top]

• Final test, 6PM 8PM in A127.