This page acts as a folder for Jie Tian's teaching materials.
Project Summary (taken from proposal)
The proposed effort for promoting CyberGIS education is to develop a new integrated course in High Performance Geospatial Computation with CyberGIS for college students. The computational bottleneck in performing large-scale geospatial analyses with conventional GIS has created an urgent need for GIS users and GI Scientists to learn about what CyberGIS could offer. The course intends to cover three major domains of competence: (1) fundamentals of CyberGIS, (2) CyberGIS platform and software, and (3) high performance geospatial computing. Three course modules will therefore be developed with logical connectors to make up the full course. Each module will be designed to be self-contained and easily incorporable into teaching already popular GIS courses as needed. The idea is to strategically fit the most important CyberGIS topics into the current GIS curricula in a relatively flexible yet pedagogically sound manner. Detailed lecture notes and lab instructions will be developed in synergy to create an effective learning experience for students. Some of the real computation problems encountered in the geospatial researches at my institution (e.g., massive production of vegetation index maps from global satellite imagery) will be included as lab exercises to link teaching with research activities. The developed course materials will be put on the open source learning platform Moodle for easy sharing with other educators of the same teaching interest. An estimated total of 60-80 hours will be needed for completing all three modules. Upon completion, students are expected to have a solid understanding of CyberGIS concepts and principles, and master a set of key skills required for performing complex and computationally intensive geospatial processing and analyses.