Post Conference Activity
Friday, June 2, 2006
Back to the Future with GPS and GIS (Newark 1937)
Instructors: Tracy DeLiberty (UD Department of Geography) and Tom McKenna (Delaware Geological Survey)
Participants received hands-on experience collecting GPS data in the field, assessing data quality, and migrating data into a GIS. The workshop was designed for GIS users with little or no GPS experience.
The morning session included:
- lectures on the fundamentals of GPS
- field data collection
- data reduction to a GIS format in the computer lab (e.g., downloading, differential correction, filtering, exporting to GIS)
The afternoon session was a hands-on GPS navigation scramble in Newark to complement topics learned in the morning. A GPS unit and a 1937 aerial photograph was used to navigate "Back to The Future” to landmarks and natural features and visualize the “Patterns of Change” in Newark. Read the News Journal article about the event.
