SUMMARY.md

Summary

• Glossary

• Week 00 - Getting Ready for the Course

  • Syllabus - Spring 2026
  • 00 - Things you need to know about your computer
  • 01 - Things you need to know about GIS data on your computer
  • 02 - Logging Into Accounts and Installing Software
  • 03 - Introduction to Spatial Data Formats
  • 04 - Introduction to Finding Data
  • 05 - Submitting Homework and Getting Help
  • 06 - Help Fix the Labs
  • 07 - Installing QGIS and Plugins
  • 09 - TURN IN - Introduction to QGIS: Being John Snow
  • 10 - TURN IN - Logging in to Google Earth Engine

• Week 01 - Lining it Up & Cartographic Presentation

  • 01 - TURN IN - Create an Area of Interest with GeoJSON.io
  • 02 - TURN IN - Projection Error Measurement with QGIS
  • 03 - TURN IN - Coordinates and Geometries with Google Earth Engine

• Week 02 - Making & Collecting Data

  • 01 - PICK ONE TO TURN IN - Designing Mobile Field Collection with ArcGIS Field Maps
  • 02 - PICK ONE TO TURN IN - Georeferencing Historical Maps with QGIS and AllMaps.org
  • 03 - TURN IN - Editing with QGIS
  • 04 - TURN IN - Collections, Bands, Pixels, and Masking in Google Earth Engine

• Week 03 - Tables & Queries

  • 01 - TURN IN - Basic Table Structures & Operations in QGIS
  • 02 - TURN IN - Basic Table Joins and Calculations in QGIS
  • 03 - TURN IN - SQL Operations in QGIS
  • 04 - TURN IN - Cartographic Design Basics

• Week 04 - Basic Vector Analysis

  • 00 - OPTIONAL - Introducing SimplyAnalytics.com
  • 01 - TURN IN - Buffering & Overlay Analysis in QGIS
  • 02 - TURN IN - Areal Interpolation of Attributes with QGIS
  • 03 - TURN IN - Network Analysis with QGIS
  • 04 - TURN IN - Tabular/Vector Data in Google Earth Engine

• Week 05 - Basic Raster Analysis

  • 01 - TURN IN - Terrain Data Preparation and DEM Merging with QGIS
  • 02 - TURN IN - Visibility Analysis with QGIS
  • 03 - TURN IN - Watershed with QGIS & WhiteBox Tools
  • 04 - OPTIONAL - Introducing StoryMaps on ArcGIS Online
  • 05 - TURN IN - Basic Raster Analysis with Google Earth Engine

• Week 06 - More Raster & Remote Sensing

  • 00 - Basic Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine
  • 01 - Modeling Movement with Google Earth Engine
  • 02 - Sampling & Interpolation with QGIS
  • 03 - Introducing Planet.com Satellite Imagery

• Week 07 - Web Mapping & APIs

  • 00 - Making & Serving Map Tiles with QGIS
  • 01 - Geocoding Addresses with locator.stanford.edu & OpenRefine
  • 02 - Creating & Hosting a WebMap, using MapLibre & Turf.js and Github Pages
  • 03 - Introducing OpenRefine for Data Carpentry

• Week 08 - Analytic Models

  • 00 - Wildfire Detection & Severity Measurement in Google Earth Engine
  • 01 - Suitability Modeling in QGIS
  • 02 - Landcover Classification & Change Detection in Google Earth Engine
  • 03 - Introducing Model Builder in QGIS

• Week 09 - Scaling, Code, Odds & Ends

  • 00 - The AlphaEarth Embedding Database in Google Earth Engine
  • 01 - Being John Snow in a Python Notebook
  • 02 - Photogrammetric Processing of Drone Imagery
  • 03 - Introducing GDAL & Command Line Tools on Stanford Farmshare
  • 04 - TURN IN - Tree Labeling in QGIS

• Week 10 - Wrapping It All Up

  • 00 - Final Project Guidelines
  • 01 - StoryMaps Support Materials
  • 02 - Guide to Citation of Spatial Data & Software
  • 03 - Stace's Crazy List of Additional GISci Resources