GIS Classes at Stanford

• ANTHSCI 149B. Digital Methods in Archaeology—(Graduate students register for 208.) Hands-on. Topics include: data capture, digital survey, and mapping instruments; GPS; digital video and photography; 3-D scanning; data analysis; CAD; GIS; panoramic virtual reality; and photogrammetry.
  3-5 units, Win (Contreras, D)


• ANTHSCI 192. Data Analysis in the Anthropological Sciences— (Graduate students register for 292.) Univariate, multivariate, and graphical methods used for analyzing quantitative data in anthropological research. Archaeological and paleobiological examples. Recommended: algebra.
  5 units, Spr (Robertson, I)


• CASA 111. Cities in Comparative Perspective—(Same as URBANST 114.) Core course for Urban Studies majors. The city as interdisciplinary object. Discourses about cities such as the projects, practices, plans, representations, and sensibilities that combine to create what people know about urban spaces. Local, national, and transnational spatial scales. Conversations across regional boundaries; geographies of difference. Case studies.
  5 units, Aut (Ebron, P)


• CASA 156. Interpreting Space and Place: An Introduction to Mapmaking— How mapmaking, geographical information systems (GIS), and spatial tools can be applied in social research. Qualitative and quantitative approaches in the use of geospatial information. Methodologies and case examples.
  5 units, Aut (Engel, C)

• CEE 169. Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Design— Application of fluid mechanics, hydrology, water resources, environmental sciences, and engineering economy fundamentals to the design of a system addressing a complex problem of water in the natural and constructed environment. Problem changes each year, generally drawn from a challenge confronting the University or a local community. Student teams prepare proposals, progress reports, oral presentations, and a final design report. Prerequisite: senior in Civil Engineering or Environmental Engineering; 166B.
  5 units, Spr (Freyberg, D), alternate years, not given next year

• EE 140. The Earth From Space: Introduction to Remote Sensing— (Formerly GEOPHYS 140.) Global change science as viewed using space remote sensing technology. Global warming, ozone depletion, the hydrologic and carbon cycles, topographic mapping, and surface deformation. Physical concepts in remote sensing. EM waves and geophysical information. Sensors studied: optical, near and thermal IR, active and passive microwave.
  3 units, Win (Zebker, H)

• GES 142. Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover—(Same as EARTHSYS 142/242.)
  Emphasis is on terrestrial changes. Topics include pre-processing data, biophysical properties of vegetation observable by satellite, accuracy assessment of maps derived from remote sensing, and methodologies to detect changes such as urbanization, deforestation, vegetation health, and wildfires.
  4 units, not given this year (Seto, K)


• GES 144. Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems(GIS) (Same as GEOPHYS 144.)
  Survey of geographic information including maps, satellite imagery, and census data, approaches to spatial data, and tools for integrating and examining spatially-explicit data. Emphasis is on fundamental concepts of geographic information science and associated technologies. Topics include geographic data structure, cartography, remotely sensed data, statistical analysis of geographic data, spatial analysis, map design, and geographic information system software. Computer lab assignments.
  4 units, Spr (Seto, K)


• GES 161. Statistical Methods for the Earth and Environmental Sciences: Geostatistics— Statistical analysis and graphical display of data, common distribution models, sampling, and regression. The variogram as a tool for modeling spatial correlation; variogram estimation and modeling; introduction to spatial mapping and prediction with kriging; integration of remote sensing and other ancillary information using co-kriging models; spatial uncertainty; introduction to geostatistical software applied to large environmental, climatological, and reservoir engineering databases; emphasis is on practical use of geostatistical tools.
  3-4 units, Win (Boucher, A)
  
• GES 343. Geographic Science Seminar: Why Space Matters—Current environmental research that incorporates geographic and spatial analysis using technological and analytical methods such as spatial econometrics, geostatistics, remote sensing, and GIS. May be repeated for credit.
  1 unit, not given this year (Seto, K)
  
• GES 240. Geostatistics for Spatial Phenomena (Same as ENERGY 240.) Probabilistic modeling of spatial and/or time dependent phenomena. Kriging and cokriging for gridding and spatial interpolation. Integration of heterogeneous sources of information. Stochastic imaging of reservoir/field heterogeneities. Introduction to GSLIB software. Case studies from the oil and mining industry and environmental sciences. Prerequisites: introductory calculus and linear algebra, STATS 116, GES 161 or equivalent.
  3-4 units, Win (Journel, A)
  
• GES 242. Topics in Advanced Geostatistics (Same as ENERGY 242.)
  Conditional expectation theory and projections in Hilbert spaces; parametric vs. non-parametric geostatistics; Boolean, Gaussian, fractal, indicator, and annealing approaches to stochastic imaging; multiple point statistics inference and reproduction; neural net geostatistics; Bayesian methods for data integration; techniques for upscaling hydrodynamic properties. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: 240, advanced calculus, Fortran/Unix.
  3-4 units, alternate years, given 2008-09 (Journel,A)

• GEOPHYS 141/241. Remote Sensing of the Oceans— How to observe and interpret physical and biological changes in the oceans using satellite technologies. Topics: principles of satellite remote sensing, classes of satellite remote sensors, converting radiometric data into biological and physical quantities, sensor calibration and validation, interpreting large-scale oceanographic features.
  3 units, Win (Arrigo, K)


• GEOPHYS 289. Global Positioning System in Earth Sciences—The basics of GPS, emphasizing monitoring crustal deformation with a precision of millimeters over baselines tens to thousands of kilometers long. Applications: mapping with GIS systems, airborne gravity and magnetic surveys, marine seismic and geophysical studies, mapping atmospheric temperature and water content, measuring contemporary plate motions, and deformation associated with active faulting and volcanism.
  3-5 units, not given this year (Segall, P)

• HISTORY 309E. History Meets Geography—Focus is on developing competence in GIS computer applications and applying it to historical problems. Previous experience with GIS not required. Recommended: complete the GIS tutorial in Branner Library before the course starts.
  4-5 units, not given this year (Frank, Z)

• POLISCI 344. Politics and Geography—The role of geography in topics in political economy, including development, political representation, voting, redistribution, regional autonomy movements, fiscal competition, and federalism.
  3-5 units, Win (Rodden, J)