GEOG 487
Environmental Challenges in Spatial Data Science

Final Project Overview & Checklist

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Final Project Overview

Scenario

You are a GIS Manager for a non-profit environmental organization where you lead a small team of GIS Analysts. A pre-proposal your organization submitted for a funding opportunity made it past the first round of review. You received an invitation to present your proposal to a panel of reviewers, who will choose between your organization and a pool of competitors for the project award.

Your job is to design a GIS work plan, summarize it in a visual presentation, and convince the panel of judges that your team is the best choice. Your role as a leader is to think through the potential opportunities and obstacles, provide a vision for your team to implement and bring in the project.

At the successful completion of the Final Project, you will:

  1. apply concepts and tools from previous lessons;
  2. design a Visual GIS Work Plan;
  3. consider your target audience and their requirements;
  4. persuade a client to hire you and your GIS team.
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Questions?

If you have questions now or at any point during this lesson, please feel free to post them to the Final Project Discussion.

Checklist

This lesson is two weeks in length and is worth a total of 200 points. Please refer to the Course Calendar for specific time frames and due dates. To finish this lesson, you must complete the activities listed below. You may find it useful to print this page out first so that you can follow along with the directions. Simply click the arrow to navigate through the lesson and complete the activities in the order that they are displayed.

  1. Read all of the pages listed under the Final Project Module. Read the information on the "Background Information," "Required Readings," "Approach," and "Summary and Deliverables" web pages.
  2. Review the required readings and videos. See the "Required Readings & Videos" page.
  3. Create and submit deliverables. Specific instructions are included on the "Summary and Deliverables" page.
  4. Review another student's project. Specific instructions are included on the "Summary and Deliverables" page.
  5. Optional - Check out additional resources. See the "Additional Resources" page. This section includes links to several types of resources if you are interested in learning more about the techniques or topics covered in this lesson.

If you have questions now or at any point during this lesson, please feel free to post them to the Final Project Discussion.

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