GIS Instruction
ASU Seminars, Fall 2024 – Spring 2025
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is taught at the RGCPS in a workshop format. It is presented in two sessions. The first is a lecture with an intro to the ArcGIS Pro interface. Session two is hands-on training with ArcGIS Pro and different data types. Both are about 90 minutes in duration.
Session One:
• During the lecture, GIS is presented as a concept: what it is and how it works. Included are some basics about usable data sets (raster vs. vector), the concept of projections, and applications for planetary data.
GIS Lecture: What_Is_GIS? [PDF, 10.7 Mb]
• The ArcGIS Pro interface is briefly introduced, showing basic navigation and technical functions.
ArcGIS Pro Inteface [PDF, 6.2 Mb]
Session Two:
• The workshop is designed to utilize the concepts described in the GIS lecture and apply them to a hands-on training session. The functions of ArcGIS Pro are explored using a suite of lunar datasets, which include images and shapefiles. Attendees will learn how to create, edit, and reproject vector data. They will also learn the basics on how to query spatial data and update data attributes.
ArcGIS Pro Workshop: Intro to Rasters [PDF, 2.3 Mb]
ArcGIS Pro Workshop: Working with Rasters [PDF, 4.2 Mb]
ArcGIS Pro Workshop: Intro to Vectors [PDF, 1.7 Mb]
ArcGIS Pro Workshop: Working with Vectors [PDF, 3.7 Mb]
ISIS3 Instruction
From the home page of ISIS3:
“Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS) is free and open-source software (FOSS) developed by the USGS Astrogeology Science Center for NASA and the planetary community. ISIS is a fundamental tool for processing raw archival data into analysis ready products and includes standard image processing tools such as contrast, stretch, image algebra, filters, and statistical analysis. However, ISIS’s key feature is the ability to place different types of data in the correct cartographic locations on extraterrestrial bodies. The cartographically located data can then be used to create archives, topographic or cartographic maps, digital elevation models, and other scientific products.”
• https://isis.astrogeology.usgs.gov/8.1.0/
Installation:
• https://github.com/DOI-USGS/ISIS3
Presentation Materials:
• ISIS3 Lecture [PDF, 14.6 MB]
• ISIS3 Exercise 1 – MESSENGER MDIS – Single Image [ZIP, 1.1 MB]
• ISIS3 Exercise 2 – MESSENGER MDIS – Image Mosaic [ZIP, 35.1 MB]
For more information on our Planetary GIS Laboratory and Planetary GIS Seminars, please contact Mr. David Nelson, the ASU School of Earth & Space Exploration GIS Specialist, at nelson99@asu.edu.
