Welcome to Dr. Elmes' Geog 350/550
Geographic Information Systems and Science

General Information:

11:30 - 12:45 Tuesday Thursday G25 Brooks Hall  

Labs: Tuesday, Wednesday 4:00 - 6:00 pm. 419 Brooks Hall

GEOG 350	CRN: 81265	LEC 001	TR	G25 Brooks Hall
GEOG 350	81266	LAB 002	T	419 Brooks Hall
GEOG 350	81267	LAB 003	W	419 Brooks Hall
GEOG 550	83992	LEC 001	TR	G25 Brooks Hall
GEOG 550	87106	LAB 002	T	419 Brooks Hall
GEOG 550	87107	LAB 003	W	419 Brooks Hall

Instructor: Dr. Gregory Elmes                          349 Brooks Hall
Email: greg dot elmes at mail dot wvu dot edu
Teaching Assistants: Ms. Jennifer Titantski 344 Brooks Hall
Mr. George Roedl          350 Brooks Hall

Course Syllabus Schedule of Lectures and Exams

Dr. Elmes' Instruction page

GEOG 350 and GEOG 550 share course materials. GEOG 550 is the graduate student section. It has additional lab and course requirements. 

IF YOU ARE HAVING DIFFICULTY REGISTERING FOR EITHER COURSE, 
please see Ms. Hope Stewart in main department office, 330 Brooks Hall.

Lecture Notes For lecture notes, please click on eCampus

 Sample Exams  For quiz and test examples, please click on eCampus

NCGIA Core Curriculum

• Unit 2 (new) What is Geographic Information Science?
• Unit 27: Projections and Transformations
• Unit 37: Fundamentals of Data Storage
• Unit 4: Raster
• Unit 55: (new) Rasters
• Unit 5: Raster Operations
• Unit 10:  Spatial Databases
• Unit 11: Spatial objects and database models
• Unit 12: Relationships among spatail objects
• Unit 13: Vector and object 
• Unit 14: Vector Analysis
• Unit 15: The Shape of the Earth

Other Useful Information

• National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
• Core curriculum 1990 Version
• Longley et al. 2005 Case Study #2
• Longley et al. 2005 Case Study #3
• The Geographer's Craft: Coordinate Systems
• Data Storage, Representation. Access and Standards Dr Keith Clarke, UCSB, Lecture notes

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