Cartography and Mapping Science
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Course Introduction
Cartography and Mapping Science explores the principles and techniques involved in the creation, interpretation, and application of maps. This course covers foundational topics such as map projections, scale, coordinate systems, and symbolization, as well as advances in digital mapping, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and remote sensing. Students will gain practical experience in designing and analyzing maps, understanding spatial data, and utilizing cartographic software to effectively communicate geographical information for various scientific, environmental, and social science applications.
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Introduction to Geospatial Technologies 2nd Edition by Bradley A. Shellito
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Chapter 1: How to Use Geospatial Data and Arcgis
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Q1) Acquiring real-time location information from a series of satellites in orbit best describes
A)a Geographic Information System.
B)a Global Positioning System.
C)remote sensing.
D)satellite imagery.
Answer: B
Q2) Describe three applications of geospatial technology in the private sector.
Answer: There are numerous answers to this question,as geospatial technologies are used in a wide variety of settings.From information presented in the chapter,geospatial technologies can be used for the following three examples: 1)map the locations of homes for sale so that users can spatially compare home values and selling prices,2)determine the best new site for a new restaurant or retail business,and 3)track the location of new housing developments over time.
Q3) Describe three fields in the public sector that utilize geospatial technology.
Answer: There are many possible answers to this question as geospatial technologies are used in such a large variety of fields.From information presented in the chapter,geospatial technologies can be used for the following three fields: 1)homeland security,2)law enforcement,and 3)public health and human services.
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Chapter 2: How to Use Tables and Attributes in Arcgis
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Q1) One minute of latitude is equivalent to A)60 degrees of latitude.
B)1 degree of longitude.
C)60 seconds of latitude.
D)60 meters.
Answer: C
Q2) A model of Earth based on mean sea level is A)geoid.
B)spheroid.
C)ellipsoid.
D)the Great Circle.
Answer: A
Q3) The origin point for 0 degrees longitude is A)Greenwich,England.
B)Washington D.C. ,United States.
C)Paris,France.
D)San Salvador Island,the Bahamas.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3:
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Q1) What are the four ways that the affine transformation may alter a dataset to match it up with another dataset?
Answer: The affine transformation will change the coordinates (and projection)of one dataset to match up with the coordinates (and projection of a second).It can do this by rotating (turning),skewing (slanting),scaling (altering the scale of the dataset),and translating (altering the placement of the dataset)the data.
Q2) Calculating new locations and new pixel values for an image refers to A)skewing.
B)translation.
C)affining.
D)resampling.
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following would be the least desirable location for a control point?
A)A cleared area in a construction zone
B)The intersection of two streams
C)The crossing of two roads
D)The location where a driveway meets a street
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: How to Create a Web Map and Share Data
Online With Arcgis
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Q1) When the correct satellite position is not being sent,what type of error is being encounted?
A)PDOP
B)Selective Availability
C)Multipath
D)Ephemeris
Q2) The Russian equivalent of GPS is
A)COMRADE.
B)GLONASS.
C)RODINA.
D)REDSTAR.
Q3) The Master Control station for the U.S.GPS is located in A)Hawaii.
B)Colorado.
C)Washington,D.c.
D)South Dakota.
Q4) A geocoin does not have a GPS receiver in it.How are geocoins (or similar items)considered "trackable" by GPS?
Q5) Describe the basic operation of an SBAS in increasing the accuracy of GPS.
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Chapter 5: How to Obtain and Use Online Data With Arcgis
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Q1) When modeling the world in GIS,when all features are treated as objects with definite locations and boundaries,what is being described?
A)Continuous field view of the world
B)Discrete object view of the world
C)Ellipsoid component view of the world
D)Geographic view of the world
Q2) Metadata refers to
A)descriptive information about the data.
B)data automatically created by the GIS during the digitizing process.
C)the "meta" or "control" points used in digitizing.
D)data manually imported into the GIS.
Q3) A parcel map of Mahoning County listing the owner of each land parcel would mean those polygons are representing what type of data?
A)Nominal
B)Ordinal
C)Interval
D)Ratio
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Chapter 6: How to Create Geospatial Data With Arcgis
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Q1) A "ranking" of various sites as the result of examining certain criteria to determine their usefulness or non-usefulness describes a
A)suitability index.
B)symmetrical difference.
C)distance buffer.
D)boolean operator.
Q2) Which geoprocessing operation will select all areas from the first dataset and all areas from the second dataset,except those areas they have in common?
A)Symmetrical Difference
B)Identity
C)Union
D)Intersect
Q3) Selecting objects from one layer based on their spatial relationship with another layer describes a
A)spatial join.
B)spatial selection.
C)spatial query.
D)spatial attribute.
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Chapter 7: How to Edit Data With Arcgis
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Q1) Which of the following data classification methods uses the average distance to the mean value of the dataset in determining class break levels?
A)Equal Interval
B)Quantiles
C)Natural Breaks
D)Standard Deviation
Q2) Which of the following data classification methods attempts to place an equal number of data values in each class?
A)Quantiles
B)Standard Deviation
C)Equal Interval
D)Natural Breaks
Q3) Which of the following data formats will result in the least loss of data of a map graphic?
A)TIFF
B)JPEG
C)DPI
D)CMYK
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Chapter 8: How to Perform Spatial Analysis in Arcgis
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Q1) Setting up the components of an address in a regular format describes A)parsing.
B)standardization.
C)linear Interpolation.
D)connectivity.
Q2) Multiple addresses can be geocoded at once via A)address standardization.
B)batch geocoding.
C)Dijkstra's Algorithm.
D)standard geocoding.
Q3) TIGER files are created and maintained by the A)USGS.
B)NAVTEQ.
C)U.S.Department of Transportation.
D)U.S.Census Bureau.
Q4) A major road (such as Virginia Beach Blvd. )would be represented in a GIS as A)a single record.
B)multiple records,with each representing one piece of the road.
C)two records,each representing half of the road's distance.
D)one file entitled "FENAME = 'Virginia Beach Blvd'."
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Chapter 9: How to Perform Geoprocessing in Arcgis
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Q1) In 1906,aerial photography of "San Francisco in ruins" was taken by A)a series of balloons.
B)a series of kites.
C)a fleet of gliders.
D)the U-2 spy plane.
Q2) A photo taken from a camera looking straight down at the ground is a
A)vertical photo.
B)oblique photo.
C)scale photo.
D)photogrammetric photo.
Q3) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)are flown
A)at more than 80,000 feet above the ground.
B)at the edge of the Earth's atmosphere.
C)via remote control from the ground.
D)by a robot system at the controls.
Q4) Aerial photography was first obtained from an aircraft in A)1903,from the first flight at Kitty Hawk.
B)1908,from a Wright Brothers plane.
C)1914,from a German World War I reconnaissance plane.
D)1940,from a British reconnaissance mission.
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Chapter 10: How to Perform Geocoding in Arcgis
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Q1) An 8-bit sensor can produce what range of brightness values?
A)0-7
B)0-8
C)0-64
D)0-255
Q2) Incident energy is equivalent to the total amount of energy that has been
A)absorbed,transmitted,and reflected.
B)reflected and transmitted.
C)absorbed by objects on the ground and also absorbed by the atmosphere.
D)reflected,scattered,and absorbed.
Q3) NDVI utilizes which two bands?
A)Red and green
B)Red and NIR
C)NIR and thermal
D)Green and NIR
Q4) Smoke and pollen cause what type of scattering in the atmosphere?
A)Spectral scattering
B)Non-selective scattering
C)Rayleigh scattering
D)Mie scattering
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Chapter 11: How to Perform Network Analysis in Arcgis
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Q1) Satellites in near-polar orbit
A)follow a north-to-south orbital path.
B)follow an east-to-west orbital path.
C)are "locked" into a constant orbital fixed position near either the North or South Pole.
D)use the Equator as the orbital path being followed.
Q2) A Sun-synchronous orbit indicates that the
A)satellite continually images the same Sun-illuminated location on the ground.
B)orbit is set up so that an area on the ground is imaged at the same time of day.
C)satellite orbits the Sun in the same orbital path as the Moon.
D)orbit is set up so that the Sun-side of Earth is imaged exactly twice in one day.
Q3) Off-nadir viewing allows a sensor to
A)obtain imagery with a half-meter or finer resolution.
B)sense beyond the usual 8-bit range of values.
C)image locations not directly under the sensor.
D)image more than 100 bands simultaneously
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Chapter 12: How to Use Raster Data in Arcgis
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Q1) The purpose of Aqua is to
A)study Earth's water cycle.
B)monitor atmospheric chemistry.
C)monitor landforms on Earth's surface.
D)study fires and emerging thermal properties of the planet.
Q2) AMSR-E can be used for measuring many environmental conditions,including A)health of ocean vegetation and ocean pollutant levels.
B)temperature of sea ice and color of the oceans.
C)active fires and volcanoes.
D)sea-surface temperature and amount of rainfall.
Q3) The flagship of the EOS program is A)Terra.
B)Aqua.
C)Aura.
D)MODIS.
Q4) Which of the Aqua instruments are frequently used together as a sounding system?
A)CERES,MODIS,and AMSR-E
B)AMSU-A,HSB,and AIRS
C)AIRS,CERES,and AMSR-E
D)HSB,MODIS,and AMSU-A
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Chapter 13: How to Use Remotely Sensed Imagery in Arcgis
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Q1) In a digital terrain model,values for elevation are given as A)E.
B)H.
C)T.
D)Z .
Q2) LIDAR uses which of the following to create a digital terrain model?
A)Satellite imagery
B)Radar waves
C)GPS
D)Laser beams
Q3) In hillshading,the user would set which two paramaters?
A)The vertical datum and the grid cell resolution
B)The altitude of the Sun and its location in relation to Earth
C)The vertical accuracy of the model and the steepness of the terrain
D)The angle of the Sun's rays and the vertical exaggeration of the model
Q4) Beyond digital terrain models,LIDAR can also be used to determine
A)building heights.
B)the types of leaves on trees.
C)the health of vegetation.
D)sub-surface soil types.
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Chapter 14: How to Perform Spatial Interpolation With Arcgis
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Q1) Extruding a polygon will turn it into a A)block.
B)line.
C)multipatch. D)wall.
Q2) Many 3D models are available to use in Google Earth and SketchUp via the A)3D Hawaii.
B)3D Warehouse.
C)3D Buildings Layer.
D)3D Thematic Mapper.
Q3) Describe the basics of how a GeoWall system enables the user to see images in stereoscopic 3D.
Q4) Graphics that can be applied to the faces of an object to provide a more realistic appearance are A)smartshapes. B)omni-objects. C)textures. D)links.
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Chapter 15: How to Work With Digital Elevation Models in Arcgis
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Q1) A national organization dedicated to geographic education is A)OGC.
B)ASPRS.
C)AAG.
D)NCGE.
Q2) The cloud model of resources reflects
A)obtaining data as needed from servers at another location via the Internet.
B)keeping a printed hard-copy of the data on hand to duplicate the data available on your own computer.
C)using a mobile device (such as a phone or tablet)to synch multiple copies of your data with your own personal computer.
D)using the resources of several volunteers together to complete a project.
Q3) GLOBE is a(n)
A)professional organization dedicated to satellite imaging.
B)free geospatial software program that allows real-time environmental tracking.
C)AmericaView program dedicated to studying global climate change.
D)NASA program with worldwide student participants that studies Earth's environment.
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