U.S.G.S. Planetary GIS Web Server - PIGWAD

Class already filled to capacity. Please continue to send in your interest, as specified below, to be placed on the waiting list or we may try to hold another class in Oct.

       

GIS for Planetary Mappers

October 1-2, 2008

Flagstaff, Arizona

 

Workshop Hosts:

Trent Hare, Jim Skinner, Ken Tanaka, Corey Fortezzo

U.S. Geologic Survey

 

We would like to invite researchers from the planetary mapping community to join us for two days of hands-on GIS training. While we will focus on the use of ESRI’s ArcMap for geologic mapping, we will also cover the uses of ISIS2, ISIS3 and ENVI.  If time is available we will touch on other capable GIS systems like Quantum GIS, UDIG, gvSIG, GRASS, Canvas GIS, and JMars. The goal of the workshop will be to teach the participants how to initiate, organize, and implement “best practices” for a digital planetary mapping project including:

-  Database design and implementation.

-  Data set ingestion, projection and registration issues.

-  Address analysis and 3-D visualization techniques.

-  Cartographic techniques for creating paper and PDF-format maps.

-  Information management and delivery for publication.

 

Participation and Registration

The workshop will be held at the USGS in Flagstaff Arizona. Seating is limited to 24 people. It would be helpful if participants could bring a laptop running Windows but it is not required.  Users with OSX or Linux laptops can also easily be accommodated. Graduate students and post-docs are encouraged to attend. A DVD containing presentation materials and software tools will be provided.

 

Registration will be on a first-come basis. To register for the workshop, send the following information to Trent Hare - thare@usgs.gov

 

Full name:

Institution:

Mail address:

Phone number:

E-mail address:

If you can bring a laptop please designate (Windows, OSX, Linux – what flavor?)

 

INDICATION OF INTEREST

Please respond with an indication of interest no later than September 1, 2008. A second announcement for the workshop will be sent out to all responders containing details about the local hotels, maps, and meeting agenda.