GIS in Geoscience Examples


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Mars Landing Site Analysis Lab part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
Educational lab activity page where students use GIS and remote sensing data from Mars orbiters to evaluate proposed landing sites based on scientific value and engineering safety, designed for an introductory GIS course with ArcGIS and spatial analyst tools. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Structural Visualizations, Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science

Landscape Interpretation and Visualization Using A GIS part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
This is an educational activity page from the On the Cutting Edge collection that presents a GIS-based lab exercise for undergraduate geomorphology students to interpret and visualize landscapes using digital elevation data, comparing analog topographic map skills with modern GIS tools like ArcGIS, Spatial Analyst, and 3D Analyst to enhance spatial reasoning and understanding of terrain-forming processes. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial

Exercise 8: Using LiDAR and GPS data to model the water table in ArcScene part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
Exercise 8 is a peer-reviewed, exemplary GIS teaching activity where students use LiDAR and GPS data in ArcGIS to model the water table beneath Hamilton College’s campus, involving terrain modeling, field data collection, interpolation, and Model Builder workflow creation. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Subject: Geoscience: Geography:Geospatial, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy

Exercise 1: Introduction to spatial data – mapping the classroom with paper and pencil part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
This educational activity page presents a classroom exercise introducing spatial data concepts through paper-and-pencil mapping, covering scale, location, coordinate systems, and metadata in a GIS context for geoscience students. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Geology

Exercise 6: The human impact of sea level changes, plus extensions to impacts of other natural events on human populations part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
Exercise 6 is an exemplary GIS lab activity where students analyze the human impact of sea level rise and natural hazards using NOAA bathy/topo DEMs and census data, with extensions to tsunami inundation and Pleistocene land bridges, designed for an introductory geoscience course to develop technical GIS skills and higher-order scientific communication. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Hazards, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Coastal Hazards:Tsunami, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Sea Level Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change

Investigating Earthquakes: GIS Mapping and Analysis (College Level) part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with GIS:Examples
This is a college-level adaptation of a chapter from the Earth Exploration Toolbook. The students download global quake data over a time range and use GIS to interpret the tectonic context. -

Subject: Geoscience: Geography:Geospatial, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Geophysics and Structural Geology, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes

Analyzing the Antarctic Ozone Hole (College Level) part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with GIS:Examples
College-level adaptation of a chapter in the Earth Exploration Toolbook. Examine satellite images of atmospheric ozone in the Southern Hemisphere to study changes in concentration over a time. -

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Atmospheric structure and composition, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Ozone depletion

Visualizing the impact of storm surge and sea level rise on coastal communities part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching about Risk and Resilience:Activities

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Hazards, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Coastal Hazards, Environmental Science

Using Google Earth to Explore Plate Tectonics part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Google Earth:Examples
Students use Google Earth to learn about plate tectonics by exploring the topography of the earth's continents and ocean floor, the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes, and seafloor age. They become familiar with these global data sets and understand how Earth's tectonic plates and plate boundaries are defined.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics

Geocoding in ArcGIS: The Spread of Target and Walmart part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
Educational activity page guiding students through geocoding Walmart and Target store locations in ArcGIS, creating distribution maps, performing spatial joins with U.S. state data, analyzing retail patterns using graphing tools, and evaluating business or environmental implications, designed for upper-level GIS courses and peer-reviewed for scientific accuracy and pedagogical effectiveness. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy



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