Instructor:

Dr. Shuhab D. Khan ; Rm. 304, S&R 1; Ph. (713) 743-3411; sdkhan@uh.edu

Office Hours

TuTh: 3.00-5.30

TA:

TA Office Hours:

Denet Pernia, Rm. 233, S&R1; dpernia@mail.uh.edu ;

MW: 9-12pm TuTh: 9-11am

Text:

Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems by M. Demers, John Willey & Sons Inc., (4 th edition, 2008).
GIS Tutorial; updated for ArcGIS 9.3 by W. L. Gorr and K. S. Kurland, ESRI Press (2008)

Course Webpage:

www.uh.edu/~sdkhan/courses/4331.php/

Objective:

•  Understand what are GIS?

•  Learn basic terminology and principles of GIS

•  Learn basic operation of industry-standard GIS
software (i.e. ESRI's ArcGIS)

•  Conduct basic GIS analyses

Grading:

Final grade will be based on two exams (40%); Lab. exercises (30%); Class project (25%); and class participation (5%)

In addition to above graduate students will be required to submit written review and a short presentation of a journal article on innovative use of GIS.

Undergraduate students will present their final projects as posters and graduate students as oral presentations.

Assignments:

GIS assignments build upon each other, so it is important to keep up with your assignments. Students have one week to finish the assignments, which are due before class begins. Late assignments will be deducted 10% for every day they are late for up to 3 days, after which they will no longer be accepted (weekends count as one day). Assignments that are not submitted properly will be returned to the student. Re-grading of assignments is done only in exceptional cases and must be coordinated through the TA within one week of the assignment being returned.

Class Notes:

Copies of the class notes are available on the class webpage at http://www.uh.edu/~sdkhan/courses/4331.php/ .

Students with Disabilities:

Students with any type of health impairment, learning disability, or physical handicap that might affect their performance in this class should contact me as soon as possible so that special accommodations, if needed, can be made.