Hello everyone. This is your week seven video. This week, we started off by having your GPS unit assignments graded. Your lab assignment, as well as your quiz, have been graded by Xin and published. They have also been pushed to the grade book. So check out your emails from the weekend, I believe it was Sunday or late Saturday, Xin emailed class and gave you some feedback about the GPS assessments, as well as a look forward to the GIS data exploration Lab Unit, which is due tonight. So Monday, October 10th, by 11:59 P.M. Eastern time. Okay. So GPS unit is finished up. You are working on and finishing up the GIS data exploration unit. Tomorrow, you will start working on the GIS Data Analysis Lab Unit. So let's take a look at the course site. You'll see I have an announcement posted that RS&GIS is recruiting volunteers for a new biometrics research project that they're running, you can earn $50. It takes about an hour. And there are time slots on these dates from either 9 to 11 in the morning or 3 to five in the afternoon. So here's a flyer link that provides you more information and a link to enroll in the project. Okay, let's go ahead over to content. Check out your schedule. We're going to expand the syllabus and schedule unit and click on schedule. Okay, So Lab Unit for GPS, all done, graded, released back to you for review. Gis data exploration. You have both the lab assignment and the quiz due tonight. The lab assignment is worth 25 points as usual, and the quiz is worth ten points as usual. Okay, so once you get the submitted, you can go ahead and start on the lab unit for GIS data analysis. The lab assignment and the quiz for the data analysis unit are due next Wednesday, October 19. Okay, So you have a little over a week to work on it. Use a PC if possible. Installing QGIS is a whole lot more straightforward. If you're using a PC. Because most while all of my instructions most of my instructions were written for a PC, we do have directions for Mac users, but we can also troubleshoot a little bit easier if you use a PC. So it's not the end of the world. If you have to use a Mac, that's, that's fine. We will work with you to troubleshoot. Again, you're going to need the entire time given to you for the Data Analysis Lab Unit. That way, get started. Ask questions on Friday during his Zoom time to the GroupMe chat, email him. And that way you'll have plenty of time to wait for a response and get any questions you might have answered and trouble you might have troubleshooting. Okay. Let's go take a look at the lab unit for data exploration, which is due tonight. You'll see if you go into the unit, you have the introduction, the instructions, video demonstrating how to use environmental mapper. Your lab assignment submission folder. There, lab assignment collects your written answers. Your lab submission folder collects your screenshot from your lab, and then the quiz. The last item in your unit, I pretty much walk through this last week. Let's go and take a look at the instructions. Open it in a new window. Again, this is your Google document and I highly recommend file. Download, download it as a Microsoft Word document so that you can, as you go through the lab instructions, write your answers, and you're going to be using environmental mapper for this portion or this lab, data exploration and in GIS. Okay, And there's also a video for you to watch on how to use it. Basically, you're going to go ahead and launch it. Launch environmental mapper, which is a web portal, a web GIS portal. Here are your here's your toolbox. We have another little tool box up here and a couple across the top. We have that launched. I'm going to zoom in. Lansing region. Can click on the Plus to do that. Or just hover over it and use your mouse to scroll or that your scroll wheel to zoom in. Okay. We're going to click the Layers icon. Put this in another window so I don't have to keep flipping back, back-and-forth. This is the Layers icon right here. Gonna go ahead and click on it. I'm going to click on the environmental management texts, which releases all of the items within that category. These are all layers provided for you. We're going to check the box next to leaking underground storage. Remember in the introduction to this lab, we we gave you some information on underground storage tanks and the impact that leaking underground storage tanks have on the surrounding environment and groundwater. So to help us learn more about this layer, we're going to click on the little i icon. And here's some information about what this layer, what the data mean. We're going to go ahead and zoom into the area that is South of the intersection of Grand River Avenue and Okemos Road. So we're going to go over here and we're going to zoom in. Here's Grand River. Going to take a second. There's Grand River in orange. Here's hog adorn, going to keep scrolling. Here's open this road. I'm really close to the alchemists CDP heading. Okay. So there are two large storage tanks near the intersection of openness and Hamilton Avenue. So here's OK, miss road. Here's Hamilton Avenue. Years to underground storage tanks. Okay. These storage tanks have been identified as having a leak. We're going to explore the land uses associated with these leeks. Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and zoom in. As you can see, this is very much like screen captures in your, in your lab. We're going to click on Site Details and click the word activate. And then we're going to click on the symbol for an underground storage tank in the southwest corner of the intersection. So what we're gonna we're gonna come over here. Here we go. Okay, There we go. We're going to click on the little arrow. Next is storage tanks. And we're going to see the information provided about that storage tank. So be asked you in the next couple of questions, three questions to record and provide the information. We asked you about in that in this little window. We're going to take another look at the other storage tank that is just west of the roundabout. Here's the roundabout. Here's the storage tank. I want you to take a look at. It still says active up here so you can click on it and you can see that this site has been activated because of the green circle around it. And again over in the storage tank window. It gives you information about that leaking underground storage tank. Okay. Now we're going to click back on the layers. And we're going to click the aerial view. There's a little disclaimer that comes up here. Please read this. And when you're done with it, we're going to X out. And then we're going to zoom into the oak Mesos Marathon site. We're going to ask you to provide a description of the landscape near it. And then you're going to continue on in the lab. I'm following the instructions. We're going to have you create buffers and answer some questions about that process. So when you're, when you're done creating the buffers and answering the questions, I'm going to have you take a screen capture of your viewer with the buffer created. And that's what's going to be uploaded to the lab submission folder. So I have instructions on how to do a screen capture. Once you've done that, you're going to clear the map and you're going to go on to look up some information about the Public Land Survey and township and range sections and answer questions there. Okay. I'll give yourself plenty of time to work on this. Honestly. I recommended last week for you to get work working on it. I'm pretty quickly at this point, you're you're under the wire. I mean, you have all day to work on it, but definitely give yourself a large window to sit down and work on it step-by-step, take breaks, take breathers, and come back and continue. So there are 20 questions for you to, to answer. Once you're done the lab assignment, submitting your responses, uploading your screen capture. You have the quiz to take. Okay? Again, Shin and I are here to answer any questions that you might encounter as you work through this lab. As soon as you get done with this lab, I highly recommend starting the next lab, which is GIS data analysis. We're gonna go back to content. And I'm going to close up one unit and I'm going to expand the data analysis unit. Okay? There's a bunch of items in here. You're going to start off with a lab introduction that's going to give you background of what you're doing this lab and provide any information that you might need in order to be successful. Your lab instructions is a Google document. Again, download it as a Word document so that you can edit it by putting in your answers, making notes as you go through the lab. There is a video demonstrating on how to download your zipped data layers. You'll see there is a, a sum that unit a folder essentially that contains I'm your lab data files that's within this unit. And then you have a link to part two instructions. So part one is going to get you a little ways into the lab. And then part two is going to pick up once you get the technical stuff working on the front end. With this lab, there is, again, a lab assignment to collect answers or responses, a submission folder to collect probably a screen capture. And the quiz that you'll take once you've submitted your lab assessments. So let's go ahead. And look at the introduction. Again, it gives you more information about groundwater and wells and how wells and streams impact local groundwater. This lab is split into five parts, and as always, it's worth 25 points possible. And we're going to go to the next item, which is the instructions. Okay, here's part one instructions. So we're going to start off with the materials and data section. And the first thing you're going to do is install QGIS, which is a freeware GIS program. It's pretty awesome that you don't need to pay money in order to download a high-quality GIS program and use it. There are quite a few users out in the public and private sector that take advantage of QGIS. Perhaps they don't have the budget to use the SRE suite of applications. So products are expensive. So QGIS offers a really nice free alternative. So we're going to use this same version. Qgis gets updated very frequently. If you download the most, the most current version, you're probably going to encounter glitches, they haven't worked out yet. Or possibly even tools and different procedures or processes that we don't have in the version we're using. So you're basically not looking at the same version of QGIS that I want you to. We're going to use the long-term release 3.4 point x. If you're using Windows, Here's a link to it. Here's the link for 64 bit Windows operating system and then the link for a 32-bit operating systems. So for me, I can never remember if I'm 64, 32. So I go down to my start window and I am going to go to Settings and go to System. Go down to about somewhere. Here you go, system type. I'm running a 64 bit. So I would come up here and click on the download 64-bit. Now you'll notice a little bit further down here are the instructions for a Mac operating system. And here is a little note about a very common problem. Make sure you read this. There is also a video and an article provided for you to help troubleshoot. I'm going to go ahead and download the link for my computer. Okay, so here's the executable file. I'm going to stick it in downloads and installers. Okay. It just told me that it already exists because I already have it on my computer, but it's going ahead and downloading. Can see up here the little progress wheel. I am using Firefox for this download. I'm going to put the video on pause and I'll start back up in a second. Once it's done, downloading. My download is complete. I can either click on that icon or I can go to my Downloads installers. And here's my QGIS executable file. I'm gonna go ahead and click on that. Okay? Once you launch the executable file, click Yes so that you can, I'm continue installing it. By double-clicking on the executable file. It actually stopped in my video recording. So I'm sorry for the little glitch there. Once it's installed. You should be good to continue. I can go to my Start button and scroll down through the applications. And here's QGIS. Qgis desktop 3.4, 0.10. There we go. Again for the Mac, use this link and make sure you read those instructions. Watch the video if you need to. If you have any trouble with the installation on PC or Mac, make sure you contact section. I believe that the computers in the GIS Library, the map and GIS library on campus, as well as the library computers have QGIS installed on them? I believe they do. So if if you're really in a bind, you and try and on or near campus you can try going to the library and having the GIS and map librarian help you get the QGIS program going. Okay. So we're going to need a folder created on her computer. I want you to call it G. Go TO 21 lab GIS. So I'm gonna go ahead and open my file explorer. And there we go. I just created the folder. Okay, and then we're going to need to unzip the data files. So if you go back to our lab unit, back to content. Okay, you'll see the lab data files. Here they are. I can click on topo. Going to go ahead and click Download, and I'm going to put it in the directory I created for this lab. I'm gonna go ahead and save it there. You're gonna do that for each one of these zipped files in the data folder in D2L. So topo, underground storage tanks, water wells, water table depth and points for students. Once you have them downloaded the zip files dot ZIP, I just double-click on the zip file or folder to unzip it in Arc eyes arc. It's free shipping application. I think I can right-click on it too. So I'll go ahead and double-click. I want to extract the topo folder, and I'm going to have it extract it into the directory I created for this lab. Tell me when I'm done. I'm all unpacked. And now in my lab directory, I'll see a folder named Topo, which has another folder in it and two files. One is a tiff file, that's the image of their topo map. Okay, So once you've populated your folder on your computer with all the data files, you can come back to the instructions and continue on to part two. Okay. Go ahead and close this up. We're going to go again if you need more information about how to unzip your data layer files, there's a video just for that. And then I'm gonna go ahead and click on the lab instructions part two, which again is a Google document. I can go to File Download, and I'm going to open that in Microsoft Word so I can type in notes and answers as I go along. So you're we're basically going to be working in a region of Washtenaw County, Michigan. I'm going to send you the Google Maps first to explore the area and you type in pleasant lake and Washington County, Michigan, and you should be taken to it. You'll see here a screen capture of what that looks like in Google Maps. You can turn on the satellite image, you can zoom into that. And this area is a gravel mining operation. More specifically, it's known as dredge mining. So here's the question. This is what you are doing your GIS analysis on. We'll dread Mining in this area affect the water quality in pleasant lake, and therefore the people who live around pleasantly. So you're going to gather some background information. Make sure you read through all of this. And then you're going to set up your GIS project in QGIS. Again, for me to launch QGIS, I go to my Start button, scroll down through my applications. I have a folder that says QGIS 3.4. I'm going to expand that and click on QGIS desktop. And it launches. Of course it's launching in the other screen. That's not being videoed. But I'll bring it over as soon as it's done. It says QGIS three-point for long-term release. Here we go. Okay, so this is what your QGIS workspace is going to look like. You have a bunch of tools. Along the top are menus. Dropdown that you can select different processes and tools from a ton of icons. If you are curious about what an icon does, we can just hover over it and you'll see a little tag comes up to explain. Zoom in, zoom out, pan, save. Okay. Okay. I think that is where I'm going to leave you for. Now. Again, this this exercise, this lab, it takes time, takes patients, take breaks, give yourself a lot of space and grace. When working through the lab. Reach out to Xin or or me if you have any questions. And I look forward to hearing from you about how your first GIS data analysis project goes. Okay. That's it for now. I'll talk to you all later.