Monday, December 1
8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Instructor: ESRI
Fee: $75 (Includes all GPS courses during the conference)

Course Description

This 4 hour class will prepare students for building forms and applications for use with ESRI's ArcPAD data collection software. Participants will build an ArcPAD form and learn what is required to produce a custom application for use with ArcPAD.

Monday, December 1
8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Instructor: Willy Lynch, ESRI
Fee: $50

Course Description: Compared to the coverage or shapefile model, the ArcGIS geodatabase data model provides more opportunities for modeling real-world objects. This workshop teaches the tools and techniques used for migrating spatial and attribute data into the geodatabase. You will learn how to create a personal geodatabase and use ArcGIS conversion utilities to migrate your existing coverages and INFO files into geodatabase feature datasets, feature classes, and tables. You will also learn about geodatabase topology, and storing raster images in an enterprise geodatabase.

Monday, December 1
8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Instructors: Mike Story, NRID NPS
Fee: $50

Ross Nelson, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Course Description: This class is a practical overview of sensor systems, the electromagnetic spectrum, recognizing spectral patterns, and supervised image classification. It includes hands-on exercises. This class is does not provide a full introduction to remote sensing and is very elemental exposure to the subject. Attendees of are encouraged to follow up this class with Remote Sensing II on Friday, December 5.

Monday, December 1
8:00 am - Noon

Instructor: Tim Clark, ESRI
Fee: $25

Course Description: An introduction of new ArcGIS 9 functionalities and enhancements and a comparison to earlier ArcGIS versions. Using demos and examples, your instructor will introduce you to Geoprocessing in ArcGIS 9. You will also learn about new capabilities in the geodatabase and new functionality in ArcMap and ArcCatalog. This is not a hands-on class but it will include demonstrations and examples.

Monday, December 1
1:30 pm- 4:30 pm

Instructor: Chris Buhi, ESRI
Fee: $25

Course Description: This hands-on class introduces the basic concepts of SAM and how to use SAM for doing weighted analysis or value maps of resource management issues. This module was originally developed to standardize air tour management planning and recommend sensitive areas for no fly zones. Recommendations, alternatives, and examples of weighting schemes for park resources will be addressed.

Monday, December 1
1:30 pm - 5:30 pm
and
Tuesday, December 2
1:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Instructor: ESRI
Fee: $75 (Includes all GPS courses during the conference)

Course Description

This 4 hour class introduce you to ESRI's ArcPAD data collection software. Students be instructed in the use of ArcPAD and go outside for a data collection demonstration.

Tuesday, December 2
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Instructor: NPS Instructor
Fee: $75 (Includes all GPS courses during the conference)

Course Description

This 1.5 hour course will introduce students to the Global Positioning System (GPS) and it's uses.

Wednesday, December 3
10:30 am - 12 pm
and
Friday, December 5
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Moderator: Joel Cusick
Instructor: Christopher Pouliot - Senior GIS specialist - Minnesota Dept.
Fee: $75 (Includes all GPS courses during the conference)

Course Description

You ever wonder how to effieciently transfer GIS data to/from a Garmin GPS reciever? C'mon, take a look!. This session will include collection of waypoints and tracks using a Garmin Map76S GPS reciever followed by importing these data into ESRI's ArcView 3.3. Class is taught by Christopher Pouliot, the developer of DNRGarmin, and will cover a DNRGarmin Quick Tour, enhancements in the new 4.2 version including full projection capabilities, hotlinking to photos, and compatibility with ArcGIS environments.

Wednesday, December 3
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Moderator: Joel Cusick
Instructor: Trimble
Fee: $75 (Includes all GPS courses during the conference)

Course Description

Students will learn how to collect data with Trimble's new GeoXT handheld using TerraSync data collection software. The GeoXT provides submeter accuracy, data maintenance capability, and EVEREST multipath rejection technology for tough GPS environments. These handhelds integrate Windows CE operating system, BlueTooth wireless technology, GPS reciever and touch-screen access to background data including georeferenced image maps. Participants will collect data outside and view data in Trimble's Pathfinder Office software.

Thursday, December 4
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Moderator: Tim Smith
Instructor: Rick Bobbitt - Geospatial Experts
Fee: $75 (Includes all GPS courses during the conference)

Course Description

Participants will be introduced to taking digital photos and linking them to GPS position data collected with Garmin Map76C GPS receivers. Students will collect photos and will process them in a classroom using PC's and conduct a tour of the program's capability including watermarked photos, linking to web maps, and GIS outputs.

Friday, December 5
8:00 am - 9:00 am

Moderator: Joel Cusick
Instructor: James Stein
Fee: $75 (Includes all GPS courses during the conference)

Course Description

Participants will learn important aspects of how to plan and execute a successful GPS project. The discussion of project planning will address GPS as an additional tool to use in collecting data to populate a GIS. Topics include assessing what the purpose and data needs are for the project, data scale and accuracy, feature attributes, and field survey techniques.

Friday, December 5
8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Instructor: Willy Lynch, ESRI
Fee: $50

Course Description

This one-day class introduces ArcView 3.x users to the features and architecture of ArcView 8. Students learn how the new ArcView 8 terminology and features compare with ArcView 3.x, how to use the new Windows-based applications: ArcMap, ArcCatalog, and ArcToolbox, and how these applications work together. Students also learn how to create, edit, and georeference spatial data, as well as manipulate tabular data, query a GIS database, label map data, and present their data clearly and efficiently using maps and charts. This course will also compare the use of ArcView 3.x scripts and extensions to the implementation of custom code using dll files and custom macros.

Friday, December 5
8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Instructor: Eric Brown de Colstoum, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
Fee: $50

Course Description: Lecture and Hands-on exercises cover supervised classification, error matrix, accuracy assessment, and seasonal and temporal land cover change analysis techniques. Various commercial satellite data will be utilized during the change detection exercise to emphasize resolution and spectral variables on output products and maps. Attendees without any previous remote sensing experience are encouraged to participate in the Remote Sensing I class offered on Monday, December 1.

Friday, December 5
8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Instructors: Peter Budde - NPS, Chris Dietrich - NPS Partner, Willene Hendon - NPS Partner, and Nancy Shock - NPS
Fee: $50

This will be a fun full-day hands-on workshop that covers metadata from beginning to end. Topics will include metadata requirements and standards, tools, opportunities for training grants, new NPS metadata tools, posting metadata, and searching for metadata in the NSDI metadata clearinghouse system. Participants will receive hands-on training with the following tools that make metadata creation and management easier (if not downright enjoyable!): ArcCatalog, NPS ArcCatalog metadata extension, NPS Stylesheets, NPS Metadata Templates, MP/MPBatch parsing tools, and the NR/GIS Metadata Database. Along the way there will be opportunities to win fabulous prizes. Don't miss out on the fun!

Friday, December 5
9:00 am - 10:30 am

Moderator: Joel Cusick
Instructor: James Stein
Fee: $75 (Includes all GPS courses during the conference)

Course Description

Participants will learn how to construct a data dictionary for use with their Trimble equipment using Trimble Pathfinder Office software. The discussion of data dictionary development will address decisions related to the collection of feature types, feature attributes, and attribute values. Student will build a data dictionary on the provided PCs.

Friday, December 5
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Moderator: Tim Smith
Instructor: Joel Cusick
Fee: $75 (Includes all GPS courses during the conference)

Course Description

This session provides users with some helpful tips and tricks for using the Trimble Pathfinder Office Software. Topics include tips on editing features and attributes, differential correction settings and export settings including the DATUM tarpit. This session will also provide some tips on reducing common procedures with the batch processor, when to use grouping and combine and a tour of the Coordinate System Manager, a handy editor that gives you access to your geodetic database for transferring coordinate systems to CE based dataloggers. New updates in Pathfinder Office v. 3.0 will be highlighted.