GEOG 310, Week 11 Lecture 2

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1. GEOG 310: Introduction to Computer Mapping and GIS Field Data Collection Week 11 – Lecture 2
2. Final Project Information, GEOG 310 In next week’s lab (April 22nd), I’ll assign a final project prompt. This project prompt will look just like a lab exercise, but will contain less step-by-step instructions. Your final project grade is 10% of your course grade: • 25% comprehension questions • 75% cartographic quality I’ll be in lab on April 22nd to provide clarification on anything in the final project, but solving GIS issues and knowing the workflow for completing the tasks is up to you. There is no lab on April 29th (FLC Undergraduate Research Symposium). Complete this project on your own, entirely independently. The final project is due on April 30th at 5 PM! No late submissions accepted.
3. Today’s Task: Vegetation Species Mapping on the FLC Campus Using Gaia GPS, record the locations of plants/trees across campus: • You should record ~5 different species (spruce, ponderosa, yucca, etc.) • You should record ~20 individuals (record multiple instances of each species) • You should space your observations out across campus For each point, in the “Notes” field in Gaia, add a number denoting your confidence: • 1 = I don’t know if this is even a plant • 2 = I’m reasonably sure that a botanist wouldn’t laugh at me • 3 = I am the Charles Darwin of classifying vegetation at Fort Lewis College I’ve provided a basic species ID guide, but I don’t expect you to all be expert botanists! All of this is accomplished using the “Add Waypoint (My Location)” button!
10. One additional point that everyone should survey! Call this one “Benchmark”, Confidence = 3
11. One additional point that everyone should survey! Call this one “Benchmark” Confidence = 3
12. One additional point that everyone should survey! Call this one “Benchmark” Confidence = 3
13. Today’s Task: Vegetation Species Mapping on the FLC Campus Using Gaia GPS, record the locations of plants/trees across campus: • You should record ~5 different species (spruce, ponderosa, yucca, etc.) • You should record ~20 individuals (record multiple instances of each species) • You should space your observations out across campus For each point, in the “Notes” field in Gaia, add a number denoting your confidence: • 1 = I don’t know if this is even a plant • 2 = I’m reasonably sure that a botanist wouldn’t laugh at me • 3 = I am the Charles Darwin of classifying vegetation at Fort Lewis College I’ve provided a basic species ID guide, but I don’t expect you to all be expert botanists! All of this is accomplished using the “Add Waypoint (My Location)” button!