INAG237

Restriction: Must be in a major in AGNR-College of Agriculture & Natural Resources; or permission of AGNR-College of Agriculture & Natural Resources. Additional information: Course is open to Institute of Applied Agriculture students and permission will be granted to others in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources based on available seats. IAA student must have completed INAG104. The principles of land measurement, using conventional surveying techniques to determine distance, elevation change or topography; Global Positioning System (GPS) devices; and mapping, utilizing Graphical Information Systems (GIS), will be the focus of this course. Students will use surveying equipment and GPS receivers and other data collection instruments to collect land data features. Data will be mapped and analyzed using software including: Trimble GPS Pathfinder Office, and ESRI ArcGIS software. Students will download and integrate available on-line geo-referenced map images or other data to support the development of their GPS collected data. Spatial analysis software will be used to map problem areas of field agronomic factors.