LINKS

HOWTO documents

Instructions on how to create a CFS account

IU's Knowledge Base -- Purveyor of computing knowledge and help files...

STC Lab Reservations -- Check and see when Student Building 230 is not reserved by other classes...

Helpful Mapping Tools (pdf files of compass roses, UTM graticules...)

IU Data/Training Resources (warning PDF file)

IU Spatial Data Portal

A few pages have been produced for the more common commands that will be helpful in this class:

• Useful Arc commands
• ArcINFO Do's and Don'ts
• Useful Unix commands
• Useful Arcedit commands
• Useful Arcplot commands
• Sample Arcedit session 1
• Register-HOWTO - describes geo-referencing of image for subsequent digitizing
• ArcView-HOWTO - introduction to using ArcView
• Project-HOWTO - instructions on using project and projectdefine

Introduction to Topographic Mapsfrom Idaho State University (Geospatial Training and Analysis Cooperative)

• Reference Datum
• Map Projections
• Distortions
• Grid Systems
• Geographic Coordinates
• UTM
• State Plane
• Public Land Survey
• Using Topo Maps
• Map Scale
• Magnetic Declination
• Creating Profiles
• Vertical Exaggeration
• Calculating Slope
• Using a Compass
• Setting Magnetic Declination
• Get a Bearing
• Go from A to B
• Find Self on a Map
• field exercises using topographic maps

Unix Tutorials -- Several Unix tutorials to choose from, each is a little bit different in presentation, but contains the same basic information

• netg.indiana.edu
• http://web.cs.mun.ca/unixtut/demo.html
• http://www.isu.edu/departments/comcom/unix/workshop/unixindex.html
• http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
• http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~krb/syllabus/unixtutor.html