2016 QUARTER 02

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V W
GD9-4 - Field data technologies
  • Identify the measurement framework that applies to moving object tracking
  • Explain the advantage of real-time kinematic GPS in field data collection
  • Describe an application of hand-held computing or personal digital assistants (PDAs) for field data collection
  • Considering the measurement framework applied to moving object tracking, identify which of the dimensions of location, attribute, and time is fixed, which is controlled, and which is measured
  • Describe a real or hypothetical application of a sensor network in field data collection
  • Outline a combination of positioning techniques that can be used to support location-based services in a given environment
CF4-3 - Fields in space and time
  • Define a field in terms of properties, space, and time
  • Formalize the notion of field using mathematical functions and calculus
  • Recognize the influences of scale on the perception and meaning of fields
  • Evaluate the field view’s description of “objects” as conceptual discretizations of continuous patterns
  • Identify applications and phenomena that are not adequately modeled by the field view
  • Identify examples of discrete and continuous change found in spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal fields
  • Relate the notion of field in GIS to the mathematical notions of scalar and vector fields
  • Differentiate various sources of fields, such as substance properties (e.g., temperature), artificial constructs (e.g., population density), and fields of potential or influence (e.g., gravity)
AM11-4 - Flow modeling
  • Describe practical situations in which flow is conserved while splitting or joining at nodes of the network
  • Apply a maximum flow algorithm to calculate the largest flow from a source to a sink, using the edges of the network, subject to capacity constraints on the arcs and the conservation of flow
  • Explain how the concept of capacity represents an upper limit on the amount of flow through the network
  • Demonstrate how capacity is assigned to edges in a network using the appropriate data structure
DA5-4 - Formalizing a procedure design
  • Compare and contrast the relative merits of object-oriented and procedural designs for modeling tasks
  • Select the appropriate environment (e.g., GIS software, software development environment) for implementing an analytical procedure
  • Compare and contrast the relative merits of various tools and methods for procedure design, including flowcharting and pseudocode
AM6-5 - Friction surfaces
  • Define “friction surface”
  • Apply the principles of friction surfaces in the calculation of least-cost paths
  • Explain how friction surfaces are enhanced by the use of impedance and barriers
CF2-2 - From concepts to data
  • Define the following terms: data, information, knowledge, and wisdom
  • Describe the limitations of various information stores for representing geographic information, including the mind, computers, graphics, and text
  • Transform a conceptual model of information for a particular task into a data model
DA3-6 - Funding
  • Identify potential sources of funding (internal and external) for a project or enterprise GIS
  • Create proposals and presentations to secure funding
  • Analyze previous attempts at funding to identify successful and unsuccessful techniques
OI1-5 - Future trends
  • Discuss the impact of the Internet on the geospatial industry since the mid-1990s
  • Assess the impact of technology convergence, such as spatial technologies with Web services, wireless, and grid computing
  • Identify future trends in computer science and information technology as they relate to GIS designs in organizations
  • Evaluate the possible implications of technologies (e.g., Google Earth, Microsoft Live Local, vehicle navigation systems) in popularizing GIS&T
  • Discuss the evolution of enterprise GIS toward integrated business applications within, across, and between organizations
  • Utilize resources (e.g., conferences, journals) to keep up to date on ongoing research in developing enterprise and intra-organizational GISs
GC9-3 - Fuzzy aggregation operators
  • Compare and contrast Boolean and fuzzy logical operations
  • Compare and contrast several operators for fuzzy aggregation, including those for intersect and union
  • Exemplify one use of fuzzy aggregation operators
  • Describe how an approach to map overlay analysis might be different if region boundaries were fuzzy rather than crisp
  • Describe fuzzy aggregation operators
GC9-1 - Fuzzy logic
  • Describe how linear functions are used to fuzzify input data (i.e., mapping domain values to linguistic variables)
  • Support or refute the statement by Lotfi Zadeh, that “As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning and meaningful statements lose precision,” as it relates to GIS&T
  • Explain why fuzzy logic, rather then Boolean algebra models, can be useful for representing real world boundaries between different tree species

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