Tectonic Geomorphology Computer Laboratory Exercises

Overview

Because much of the work in Tectonic Geomorphology relies on the tools of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing to enable us to analyze topography and integrate diverse datasets, we will have a "field trip" to the computer laboratory to share with the class important knowledge and skills in GIS and analysis of topography.

Date and time

9-5 pm, Saturday and Sunday, March 29 and 30.

Location

We will have our exercises in a computer laboratory in the Engineering G wing, second floor, room 238 (ECG238): See this map

Preparatory activities

Try to increase your AFS space allotment

How much will my personal AFS store?
Go to the http://forms.asu.edu site and select "Academic Access Requests (Listserv, AFS Quota, Outlook, ASURITE Windows)" and then "# Request for AFS Quota Increase (for students)". Fill in the form: Total amount of space requested: 200 Mb

Purpose for Quota Increase: "My professor wants me to use the AFS space for a class project using the CITRIX environment and ArcGIS. We manipulate large files of digital elevation data. If at all possible, please implement before Saturday, March 29--we are going to do a weekend course project and need the space then"

Faculty or Staff Sponsor's ASURITE UserID: arrows

Download and install the profiler tool if you will use your own Windows machine

profiler.zip
Tutorial and installation information

Overview

Saturday--March 29

Introduction to and application of Geographic Information Systems to Tectonic Geomorphology
--Note that the basis for much of this will come from relevant lectures and tutorials from the GLG410/598--Computers in Geology class).
The examples will be application to spatial data integration and analysis for area of class field trip to Northern Arizona
These are approximate times:

9 am Introduction to CITRIX: ArcGIS, Matlab, moving data around and working with the c$ and s$ (AFS space) drives (USING CITRIX on ASU systems to access ArcGIS and other applications)
Introduction to GIS and ArcGIS
Simple image processing and getting data into ArcGIS
10:30 am Projections and datums
11 am USGS Seamless site
DEMS:

Download and project
3D Analyst: hillshade, slope, aspect, profiles
12 pm ish: Lunch!!!
1 pm ArcScene
Spatial Analyst (including Raster Calculator)

2 pm Georeferencing
Shapefiles and digitizing
Query and processing of vectors
3:30 pm Application to LiDAR topographic data

Sunday--March 30

Short course: New tools for Quantitative Geomorphology: Extraction and interpretation of stream profiles from digital topographic data
Here is the main reference for this task: Stream Profiler page at geomorphtools.org

Getting set up in advance

To work effectively, you ned to set up your S: drive or AFS space in the following way (look at the Managing your files on the local drive or AFS space part of the USING CITRIX on ASU systems to access ArcGIS and other applications pages to see how to connect--use secureftp):

Make a directory at the root level called tect_geom and put everything for this class in there.
Make 3 subdirectories within the tect_geom directory: mfiles, matlab, arcmap.
Into mfiles, put all of the files that are in this archive: mfiles.zip. Note that I have zipped it so you can download it from this web site. You need to unzip it and then drag the entire contents over into the mfiles directory on your AFS space.
Into matlab, put all of the files that are in this archive: matlab.zip. Note that I have zipped it so you can download it from this web site. You need to unzip it and then drag the entire contents over into the matlab directory on your AFS space:
arcmap will be empty for now, but once you get going, you will want to store your mxd file, etc. related to ArcMap in there.
When the AFS space is set up, it should look like the right side of this window: