2006 Faculty Development Workshops

GIS for Agriculture Decision Making

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 to Friday, June 16, 2006
Kirkwood Community College- Cedar Rapids, IA

For Instructors Only

Registration is Closed - Workshop Full

Description
This workshop is designed to build on last year’s GPS Data Collection workshop to answer the question “What do we do with this data?” In a progression of geospatial workshops sponsored by AgrowKnowledge, this workshop covers analysis and interpretative techniques that enhance decision making in agriculture. Off-computer activities are used to understand the techniques and on-computer activities provide actual experience in creating interpretative maps. Two optional activities are also available with this workshop: a preliminary day to cover prerequisite GIS skills and an afternoon session for those participants interested in hosting their own workshop or developing instructional material.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will

  • Gain an awareness for the importance of teaching geospatial decision making
  • Recognize precision farming as a management/decision-making system
  • Describe analysis techniques in GIS that are useful for agriculture
  • Describe interpretative maps and charts useful in agriculture
  • Create a suitability map
  • Complete a zonal statistics chart

Outcomes
Participants will integrate concepts learned at the workshop resulting in:

  • Greater understanding of the decision making process by students
  • Enhanced math and statistics skills of students

Prerequisite knowledge
 Participants should have a base of knowledge to attend this workshop. Without this base of knowledge, you may not get the full benefit of this workshop. If you do not feel comfortable with the concepts listed below, please consider participating in the optional preliminary workshop day being offered.

  • GPS Data Collection
    • Define attributes for field data collection
    • Recognize the process for collecting data and building a project for analysis
  • GIS ArcView
    • Data formats, difference between raster and vector
    • ArcCatalog
      • View shapefiles
      • Move folders and shapefiles between file locations
    • ArcMap
      • Add and Display map layers
      • Change symbology
      • View an attribute table
      • Query/select by location or attribute

Registration
$50 for Optional Preliminary workshop
$100 for GIS in Agricultural Decision Making
Registration fee is paid online with course registration at www.agrowknow.org.
Workshop is limited to first 25 participants.

$0 for Optional FDW Training Program – signup if you are interested in hosting your own workshop or are interested in developing instructional materials on this topic fro AgrowKnowledge

Workshop is for educators only. Suggested audience is secondary ag instructors, postsecondary agriculture instructors and mathematics instructors, and university faculty. Ag instructors should consider pairing with math instructor from their own school.

Workshop registration includes:
$300 travel stipend
Lodging for 3 nights (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with breakfast for 3 days
Meals (3 lunches and 1 evening meal)
Course Access code for 2 ESRI Virtual Campus courses ($350 value)

$50 optional day registration fee provides:
Additional night of lodging and breakfast (Monday night)
Lunch and evening meal on Tuesday

Optional FDW Training Program

Additional night of lodging will be provided

University Credit
 University credit for the faculty development workshop is available through Iowa State University or the University of Idaho.

Iowa State University
For participants to qualify for graduate credit, they will need to complete graduate credit application form and return to Dr. Wade Miller, Agriculture Education, ISU. Approximate cost is $300/credit hour. For complete details contact Terry Brase or the AgrowKnowledge Center.

University of Idaho
 Participants can also receive one credit for AGED 405 for $65 per credit or AGED 505 for $77 per credit from the University of Idaho by paying the credit fee and completing a short registration form and transcript request form at the time of the workshop.

Daily Schedule

Tuesday, June 13, 2006 (Preliminary, Optional Day)

8:00 am

Review GPS Data Collection

 

 

Defining attributes and building data dictionary

 

 

Connecting a GPS to handheld PC

 

 

Collecting vector points, lines and areas

 

11:00 am

Download data into desktop

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

12:45 pm

ArcCatalog

 

 

Move files, preview files and attribute tables

 

ArcMap

 

Add data layers

 

Edit symbology

 

View table

 

Set labels

 

Join a table to a map

 

Query by location and by attribute

 

Examples of raster

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

Wednesday June 14, 2006

8:00 am

Introductions and preliminary paperwork

 

8:30 am

ESRI Virtual Campus “Learning ArcGIS Spatial Analysis”

 

9:00 am

Discussion – Why teach spatial analysis?

 

9:30 am

Discussion - Precision farming and decision making

Activity #1

10:00 am

Analysis techniques Raster vs vector

 

10:15 am

Convert to grid

Activity #2

11:00 am

Interpolate

Activity #3

11:45 am

Find distance

Activity #4

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

1:45 pm

Join, table and spatial

Activity #5

2:30 pm

Map calculator

Activity #6

Examples of Interpretive Maps

 

3:00 pm

Suitability map

Example#1

4:00 pm

Zonal statistics

Example#2

5:15 pm

Adjourn

 

6:00 pm

Supper

 

 

Thursday June 15, 2006

8:00 am

Creating a suitability map – What is the most suitable area for wetland restoration?

Lab #1

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

1:00 pm

Creating a zonal statistic chart

Lab #2

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

6:00 pm

Supper

 

Friday June 16, 2006

 

Resources

 

8:00 am

USDA Spatial Analyst Curriculum

 

10:00 am

ESRI – materials

 

11:00 am

Work time

 

Development of Action plans

 

Evaluations

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

FDW Education Program (optional)

 

1:00 pm

Objectives of Program

 

1:30 pm

Discussion – Development of Kits

 

2:30 pm

Additional practice in workshop topics and techniques

 

3:30 pm

Use of FDW booklet

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

Travel to Cedar Rapids, Iowa
 You should plan on arriving sometime on June 13th (or on June 12th if you are participating in the optional pre-workshop) since the workshop will start at 8:00 am on the 14th. (13th for pre-workshop participants) We will be completed at 12:00 pm on June 16th unless you are taking the workshop for graduate credit or if you want to host your own workshop, in which case you will need to stay until June 16th at 4:00 pm.

Cedar Rapids has a regional airport serviced by Delta, United, American, Northwest and ATA. If you make reservations early, good rates are usually available. To fly into Cedar Rapids you can use connections from Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Atlanta or Dallas airports.

Participants will be reimbursed up to $300 (maximum) for travel expenses. This can include mileage, airfare, parking or other costs of getting to the workshop. The hotel has a free shuttle from the airport with a phone link from the transportation/hotel desk so there is no need for a rental vehicle.

Maps to Washington Hall, Kirkwood Community College and to the Clarion hotel can be provided.

Lodging/Hotel
Clarion Hotel & Convention Center (319) 366-8671 (www.clarioncr.com). Participants must call to confirm reservation. Rooms for June 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th will be direct billed to AgrowKnowledge If you note at the time of reservation that you are with AgrowKnowledge. The hotel will request a credit card to hold room and to charge incidentals.

Rooms will be held until June 1, 2005. Please call before this date. Rooms cancelled after June 1st will be the responsibility of the participant.

Meals
Hotel serves a continental breakfast each morning. Participants will be provided with breaks and lunch each day and an evening meal on Wednesday and Thursday. A box lunch will be available for Friday afternoon.

Homework
Each participant is expected to have fundamental skills and knowledge of GPS and GIS. The following internet resources are recommended reading before the workshop. The prerequisite skills discussed in these readings will assure that participants are at a knowledge level to make this workshop most useful. For those educators that have a strong geospatial background, a quick review is most likely all that is necessary.

“Learning ArcView 9”, ESRI Virtual Campus. Participants will receive a course access code upon payment of $100 registration fee.

Contact Information
Terry Brase
(319) 398-5458
tbrase@kirkwood.ed

 

 

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