Geography 350 Projects


Fortieth International Conference
on Spatial Data Acquisition for GIS

Fall 2023
American River College / OnLine
Sacramento

Call for Projects

Original Project documents are invited on all aspects of spatial data for geographic information systems (GIS). Accepted Projects will be published as HTML documents on the ARC/GIS web.

    Topics of interest include and are not limited to:

  • biota
  • boundaries
  • climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
  • economy
  • elevation
  • environment
  • farming
  • geoscientificInformation
  • health
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • inlandWaters
  • intelligenceMilitary
  • location
  • oceans
  • planningCadastre
  • society
  • structure
  • transportation
  • utilitiesCommunication
  • disaster
  • extraTerrestrial

    • (ISO 19115 Topic Category Keywords)

    Required Content

  • Abstract -- Summarize introduction through conclusion. Write abstract last.
  • Introduction -- Set context. Include problem statement and general approach.
  • Background -- Literature review. Describe how previous work relates to your project. Required format in text: (Author, year); e.g. (Goodchild and Proctor, 1997)
  • Methods -- Add details to approach given in introduction.
  • Results -- Present actual data, explain sources, formats used and why.
  • Analysis -- Discuss results, successes, difficulties.
  • Conclusion -- Provide solution to problem and/or identify applications and needs for future research.
  • References -- Literature cited. Alphabetize by first author. Conventional format example: Goodchild, M.F. and J. Proctor, 1997. Scale in a digital geographic world. Geographical & Environmental Modelling, 1(1):5-23.
  • Web References. Alphabetize by first author or chronologically. Example format includes URL and date accessed:
    Veisze, Paul M. 2019, in work. American River College Geography 350 Past Student Presentations. http://ic.arc.losrios.edu/~veiszep; accessed 2023.08.10

Paper Introduction Section due in Course Week 7.
Email text only (no attachments) to veiszep@arc.losrios.edu
Enter on Subject line: <yourlastname>_ProjIntro. Example: Veisze_ProjIntro.
Final Project documents due following presentations in last class. See Schedule.