Welcome to the Intro GIS hands-on lab!

About the author, Yuri Kim

I am a geography educator who focuses on physical geosystems and methods of geospatial analysis, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS). Students in my classes have diverse interests and career goals – e.g., nature, society, environmental change, decision-making in policy, business, etc. My primary pedagogical research and instructional objectives are to enhance students’ engagement with fast-changing, innovative technologies in GIS and RS, and their application to the broad spectrum of research and industry needs. I developed my expertise in methods of geospatial analysis during my master’s program at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Seoul National University, South Korea, and I completed my Ph.D. in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My doctoral research focused on analyzing past, present, and future water resources in the context of climate and land-cover change impacts in the mountain, Piedmont, and coastal areas of North Carolina, utilizing GIS, RS, and hydrologic modeling as research tools. I now teach various levels of classes, from first-year undergraduate to graduate students. I also mentor students on diverse research projects and have expanded my teaching-related services within the university to K-12 and higher-level lifelong education in Indiana.

Lab exercise preparation

• Through this exercise, we will confirm our knowledge about GIS and apply it using real-world case studies.
• Please remember to keep your data and workflow — always SAVE and BACKUP your data! You should submit any original GIS data (even for the previous labs) immediately upon receiving our requests when you see suspicious academic misconduct. Please note that you have stringent rules regarding academic misconduct. You can get some help from other students in the class. However, you cannot obtain their results and include them in your report. Each of you should produce all graphics or answers to the given questions for the lab report. The loss of your processed data also cannot be an excuse for your late submission of labs or other.
• Lab instructions and data will be provided at the beginning of each lab. Data will be in .zip format. You need to unzip it by right-clicking and selecting “Extract all.”
• You will find questions in the lab instructions. Please answer these in a Word file and upload it to the space provided in the course Canvas.