Lecture Notes

This course makes use of Athena, MIT's UNIX-based computing environment. OCW does not provide access to this environment.

This section contains several of the lectures from the class, and a set of ideas relating to the final project and how it might develop.

Introduction to GIS (PDF)

Map Layout and Cartography (PDF)

Map Projections (PDF - 2.0 MB)

Digital Elevation Models (PDF)

Assembling a Cost-Distance Model (PDF)

Vector Processing (PDF)

Final Project Ideas (PDF)