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Summary
Summary
Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS: A Workbook, second edition, provides scenario-based lessons that develop GIS skills and critical thinking. Students will use organized workflows, spatial analysis, and visualization to make decisions rooted in real-world issues about crime, hazards, hurricanes, demographics, and urban planning. Designed for a college curriculum, Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS: A Workbook develops GIS skills using step-by-step instructions, guided activities that reinforce learned concepts, and independent projects that encourage students to find local data and situations. The first edition was part of the Our World GIS Education series published by Esri Press, which won the 2008 Geographic Excellence in Media award from the National Council for Geographic Education.
Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS: A Workbook includes data for the exercises. A 180-day trial of ArcGIS Desktop 10 and in-depth instructor resources are also provided.
Author Notes
Kathryn Keranen, a retired teacher, was instrumental in introducing GPS, GIS, and remote sensing into the geosystems curriculum of Fairfax County, Virginia schools. Currently, she is a private consultant, an authorized K-12 Esri instructor, and adjunct faculty member at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Robert Kolvoord is a professor of integrated science and technology at James Madison University. At the University of Arizona, he was a founder of the nonprofit Center for Image Processing in Education. He has given workshops and presentations around the world about using visualization technology in education.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. x |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Workflow | p. xviii |
| Hazardous emergency decisions | p. 2 |
| Project 1 An explosive situation in Springfield, Virginia | p. 4 |
| Project 2 Skirting the spill in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina | p. 20 |
| Project 3 On your own | p. 25 |
| Project 1 For richer or poorer in Chicago | p. 30 |
| Project 2 Determining diversity in Washington, D.C. | p. 54 |
| Project 3 On your own | p. 59 |
| Law enforcement decisions | p. 62 |
| Project 1 Taking a bite out of Houston's crime | p. 64 |
| Project 2 Logging Lincoln's police activity | p. 85 |
| Project 3 On your own | p. 92 |
| Hurricane damage decisions | p. 94 |
| Project 1 Coastal flooding from Hurricane Katrina | p. 96 |
| Project 2 Hurricane Wilma storm surge | p. 119 |
| Project 3 On your own | p. 124 |
| Urban planning decisions | p. 126 |
| Project 1 Where to grow in San Diego | p. 128 |
| Project 2 Analyzing urban sprawl in Seattle | p. 143 |
| Project 3 On your own | p. 147 |
| Data sources | p. 150 |
| Data license agreement | p. 154 |
| Installing the data and resources | p. 156 |
| Installing the trial software | p. 158 |
