Integrating Spatial Information Technologies into the Environmental Studies Curriculum

跨学科（99）这个项目是加强环境研究计划在葛底斯堡学院通过引入空间分析实验室和相关的课程，提供严格的教育和实践培训空间信息技术是至关重要的环境分析和解决问题。复杂的环境问题通常是在地理背景下发生的。这些问题可以通过使用地理信息系统（GIS）、全球定位系统（GPS）和遥感（RS）分析空间参照数据来解决。该项目的目标是为本科生在这些技术的基本概念，方法和环境应用奠定坚实的基础，使他们准备承担在私营和公共部门和研究生研究环境中的环境研究和政策分析的主导作用。该项目正在调整三个成功的方案，以适应本科环境研究学生的需求：米德尔伯里学院和霍利奥克山学院的方案，以及地理信息系统的核心课程，由国家地理信息和分析中心（NCGIA）开发。目前正在修改和扩大国家地理信息咨询小组的课程，增加关于全球定位系统和遥感的内容。目前正在开设三门新课程：（1）地理信息系统导论;（2）空间信息技术的环境应用;（3）环境遥感。课程的实验室部分通过个人和小组项目促进积极和协作学习。学生们通过练习学生开发和维护（与教师监督）的环境数据库周围地区的实验室组件的创新功能，检查环境问题。该项目还将空间信息技术整合到本科论文研究中。正在使用ArcInfo、ArcView和Idrisi地理信息系统和图像处理软件进行跨学科教学和研究。

Interdisciplinary (99)This project is enhancing the Environmental Studies Program at Gettysburg College by introducing a Spatial Analysis Laboratory and associated curriculum to provide rigorous education and hands-on training in spatial information technologies that are critical to environmental analysis and problem solving. Complex environmental problems are commonly situated in geographic contexts. These problems can be addressed by analyzing spatially referenced data through the use of geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), and remote sensing (RS). The project goal is giving undergraduate students a strong foundation in the fundamental concepts, methods, and environmental applications of these technologies so that they will be prepared to assume leading roles in environmental research and policy analysis in the private and public sectors and graduate research contexts. The project is adapting three successful programs to fit the needs of undergraduate environmental studies students: programs at Middlebury College and Mount Holyoke College as well as the core curriculum in GIS developed by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). The NCGIA curriculum is being modified and extended by including content on GPS and RS. Three new courses are being implemented: (1) Introduction to Geographical Information Systems, (2) Environmental Applications of Spatial Information Technologies, and (3) Remote Sensing of the Environment. Laboratory components of the courses are promoting active and collaborative learning through individual and group projects. Students are examining environmental issues by exercising a student-developed and maintained (with faculty supervision) environmental database for the surrounding region-an innovative feature of the laboratory components. The project also integrates spatial information technologies into undergraduate thesis research. Interdisciplinary instruction and research is being conducted using ArcInfo, ArcView, and Idrisi GIS and image processing software.