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GIS at American River College

During the preparation for last year's Tevis, I learned about the Sweep Riders of the Sierra. They use GPS handhelds as well as amateur radios to navigate and keep in contact with net control. The GPS helps when specific coordinates are needed to get emergency services to an area quickly. I thought that was cool, and thought someday I would like to be a member of the Sweep Riders. Somehow I found that American River College had classes in Geographic Information Systems. The first class I took was learning how to use GPS. The college has a certificate program that is one of the best known and respected in the US. Last semester I took the introduction to Geographic Information Systems. I will be starting class again on August 19th and am taking GEOG 350 Data Acquisition. It will be a slow go since I can only handle one class at a time since I work all day, but it has been fun so far.

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GIS Project

In our last class we experimented with synchronizing our GPS units with our digital cameras. We took a picture of our gps unit to show what time the unit thought it was. We took some pictures at different locations and then uploaded the photos and the waypoint information to our computers. Using a program called GPS-Photo link, we fed the data in and the program created web pages which displayed our now geo-referenced photos. This is a sample of the web pages created.

GIS Analysis of the Tevis Cup

For a class project in my geography class in data acquisition, I used the Tevis Cup Ride. You can view my paper at http://ic.arc.losrios.edu/~veiszep/12fall2004/Sutherland/G350_Sutherland_Project.htm

Also, this is what what I was able to plot on ArcMap towards the end of class. (This is a large bitmap, 2300KB, and will take a while to load via dial-up)

Tevis 2012

TEVIS 100 Mile Ride