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| Subject: | RE: GISList: advice needed: GPS for teaching GIS |
| Date: |
08/20/2003 04:00:01 PM |
| From: |
RICK GRAY |
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Great thought. I have considered it and suspect that time constraints
(i.e. 2 hr lab slot) would not give students the time to go to a
location and actually accomplish something then return to the school in
time for their next class. However, we are located on an agriculture
research campus. Perhaps I will send out an email to all the research
faculty to see if anyone needs GPS readings of their plots.
>>> "Gillespie,Ian [Burlington]" <Ian.Gillespie@ec.gc.ca> 8/20/2003
4:35:00 PM >>>
Hi Rick,
Just as an aside, have you thought about approaching companies, local
governments (Fed/Prov/Muni), non gov't agencies (ie. Conservation
Authorities) or other academic deptartments using this as a
collaborative
opportunity to collect data?
Market this as a win-win so you can have students learn how to use
current
technologies utilizing existing GPS tools/resources/standards while
simultaneously collecting data for an agency that was going to be doing
this
anyway?
Just a thought.
______________________________________
Ian Gillespie
Geographic Information Officer
Integrated Environmental Applications Branch
Knowledge Integration Directorate
Environment Canada
867 Lakeshore Road
Burlington, Ontario
L7R 4A6
Ph: (905) 336-4527/Fax: (905) 336-4906/Cell: (289) 259-3244
Email: Ian.Gillespie@ec.gc.ca
www.ec.gc.ca/cise
-----Original Message-----
From: RICK GRAY [mailto:RGRAY@ridgetownc.uoguelph.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:09 PM
To: gislist@geocomm.com
Subject: GISList: advice needed: GPS for teaching GIS
Hello listers,
For a brand new course I will have to teach this fall, we have 13
weeks
to teach students how to collect data and do some GIS analysis. These
are 1st semester students in a community college Environmental
Management Diploma. They are not GIS students. The first few weeks
will
be teaching them survey techniques using the level and total station.
I
also want them to collect data using GPS. I am looking for advice on
what kind of GPS unit would work best.
I would like something that is no worse than about 5m accuracy, of
course the more accurate the better.
I need about 6-10 units (class size is currently 38) and I believe
(but
don't know for sure, yet) that I may have about $500-1000 CDN to spend
per unit.
I will be using ArcView 3.3. I need something that will be fairly
straight-forward to use. Rugged would be nice. (a handheld with arcpad
and GPS antenna would be the most fun, but I suspect outside of my
budget)
I am turning to the list because I have contacted 3 different
suppliers, 2 of which have said they will send me information and
prices, but after a week of waiting I have heard nothing. And school
starts in 2 weeks.
If you have done such a course, or are a supplier interested in making
a sale, or just have some friendly advice, I'd love to hear from you.
Thanks,
rg
Rick Gray
GIS Specialist, Ontario Weather Network
http://www.ownweb.ca
Ridgetown College, University of Guelph
http://www.ridgetowncollege.com/
Tel. 519-674-1554
E-mail: rgray@ridgetownc.uoguelph.ca
Ridgetown: -81.883 W, 42.450 N
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