Provisional schedule! Lab sessions filling in incrementally....

Schedule of Lectures, Labs, and Readings => Due dates are elsewhere...
Date	Topic	Readings
6 Jan.	Objectives and Expectations; Tobler Analytical Cartography	Syllabus Web pages; Tobler
8	Cartographic data structures and simple calculations	[Bowyer handout]; Wise Ch2,3
8/9	Lab 1: Create login on Geography servers (official policy); Opening a script
13	Intersections [CROSS]; Line generalization; REDUCE	Douglas It Makes me so CROSS; Douglas & Peucker; Exploring p. 82-86
15	Software environments and Object technology	Smallworld whitepaper: Some Objectivity Please;
15/16	Lab 2: ArcObjects methods/procedures; assign code to analyze
20	Martin Luther King holiday
22	Geometric measures and their limits; fractals too	Wise Ch4 & handout
22/23	Lab 3: Dividers exercise; code analysis
27	Algorithmic Analysis	Wise Ch 5
29	Avenue scripts (Gene Martin)
29/30	Project work
3 Feb	Geodesy and Datums; Resources for geodesy	(Exploring p. 17-19); NIMA Geodesy for the Layman
5	Projections: Theory and Geometry	Snyder
5/6	Lab 4: Field work: plane table exercise
10	Computing Projections and Registration	Exploring p. 72-77; [Petersohn code]
12	Raster data structures and algorithms	Wise Ch 6 & 7
12/13	Datum/ Projection wizardry
17	Presidents's Day Holiday
19	Spatial indexing	Wise Ch 8
19/20	Project review
24	WHIRLPOOL: tour of complex data structures	Whirlpool paper
26	SDTS; VPF; Open GIS; why another standard?
26/27	Project support (review status of contracts)
3 Mar	The next generation?
5	No lecture (NC at AAG)
5/6	more project work
10	Review of Analytical Cartography
12	Presentations
12/13	Presentations and demos
17	FINAL EXAM 2:30-4:20 PM; 271 MGH

Version of 12 March 2003