GEOG 176c – GIS design & applications 15 points
Spring, 2004: Project Proposal due: THU April 22, beginning of lecture
Group Project Reports
Each group will submit one project report at the end of the term. This report will document
what team members have accomplished at the end of the term. The idea of the project
proposal is to layout the structure of the group project, and sketch a roadmap how the group
is planning to tackle the GIS study. The final project report will contain the following
sections
I Project title, names of group members, name of team leader, contact information
II One short summary paragraph to describe the outcome of the project
(max. 200-300 words)
III Problem statement/objectives
what are you going to do?
why are you doing it with GIS?
what are you hoping to find?
IV Reference to related work
are there similar projects? what are the fundamental approaches, theories etc.?
VData collection, database design/management
what data did you use (format, data models, metadata)?
where did the data come from (data dictionary)?
how did you get it into the computer?
problems you encountered, alternatives that you tried?
VI Implementation, hardware/software
what computer hardware/software environment did you use?
why did you choose this particular environment?
VII methodology: GIS analysis/operations performed
what GIS functions did you apply?
why did you apply them?
VIII Results/Discussion
what is the outcome of your study?
what were the problems you encountered?
how do these outcome relate to the research problem?
include graphic outputs (maps, images, graphs, etc.)
IX Conclusions/Outlook
summarize problem, findings in a short paragraph
what would be left to do, if not finished, what other approaches would be possible?
X References (if necessary)
(please note: only a limited amount of WWW references will be allowed)
Not more than 2 WWW References are allowed. The rest has to be literature from
traditional library resources such as journal articles, books etc.
