Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, San Luis Valley, Colo.
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Geospatial Technologies
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Geospatial Technologies Labs for UCCS Students
- Lab 1: Asking Questions of Maps - Interacting with the 'This Dynamic Planet' Map
- Lab 2: Documenting the Variety of Cultural / Physical Geography in El Paso County, CO using the Virtual Globe 'Google Earth'
Lab 3: Estimating the Extent of Urban Sprawl on Long Island, NY, and Other Exciting Geographic Explorations Using the Virtual Globe 'SkylineGlobe'- Lab 3: Promoting a Four-Day U.S. National Park Itinerary Via Google Earth
- Lab 4: GPS and GIS - Using Control Points Collected in the Field to Georeference a .jpg of the UCCS Campus
- Lab 5: Geovisualization and Pattern Discovery - Draping Geology and Cultural Features over Topography
- Lab 6: Remote Sensing - IDRISI: Using Landsat Imagery and NDVI to Distinguish Vegetation near Pueblo, Colorado
- Lab 7: Digital Terrain Modeling and Geomorphometry using Peter Guth's MicroDEM (not maintained)
- Lab 8: Spatial Analysis and DEMs - Mountain Geography: Investigating Colorado Fourteeners Pixel by Pixel
- Lab 9: Interpolation of Airborne and Terrestrial Lidar Point Data
- Lab 10: Marketing Outdoor Recreation in Chaffee County, Colorado through Queries, Clips, and Joins
- Lab 11: Colorado Barbeques Gone Bad - The Regional Climatology of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning on July 4th (Sept. 2018 - still working on this one)
Structure from Motion (SfM) Basics
Helpful GIS Stuff
- Working with USGS airborne lidar .las files (from USGS' CLICK) in ArcMap 10.1
- How to convert USGS airborne lidar .las files (from USGS' CLICK) to DEMs and TINs in ArcMap 10
- How to convert Geocomm.com 1:24K USGS DEMs to GRID or TIFF format, readable in ArcMap 10
Helpful Remote Sensing / Image Processing Stuff
- IDRISI Taiga: IDRISI to .kml
- IDRISI Taiga: Creating a NDVI image using Landsat Band 3 (red) and Band 4 (near-infrared); unsupervised classification of land cover; distinguishing snow from clouds using Landsat Band 2 (green), 4, and 5 (shortwave infrared)
- IDRISI Taiga: Mosaicing (joining images), filtering (smoothing images), and contrast enhancement; image windowing (subsetting / cropping); and importing IDRISI images into ArcMap
Leica-Geosystems C-10 TLS Workflows
Leica-Geosystems TruViews
- Sections of UCCS campus in 3D (viewer requires IE plugin)