Lecture Notes & LinksCompiled by D G Rossiter
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"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
-- Gibbon; The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Ch. IV Part 1
Here are some lecture notes, presentations, exercises, and technical notes that I've written for teaching, along with some related links. I hope they're useful, but please read the disclaimer.
Research Methods
(3 volumes, compressed 15.6 Mb)
Reader for a module on research skills, used in the UT/ITC MSc course in Enschede and at partner institutions
(15 lectures, compressed 18.5 Mb)
Lecture slides corresponding to the above list.
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Versión en Español de algunas partes del anterior, adaptada a condiciones Bolivianas (con Ronaldo Vargas)
(2.6 Mb)
An outstanding, thought-provoking explanation by J H Maindonald of the
Australian National University (he's also an R guru). Chapter 8,
The Rationale of Research, is available separately.
(83 Kb)
From the University of Reading
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A classic common-sense approach to writing and presenting for technical workers such as engineers and research scientists.
By Tom Hengl and Michael Gould, the result of an ITC writing workshop
By Alfred E Hartemink (ISRIC). Especially recommended:
Part 3: Fraud and Ethics
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From the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Includes rules for listing authors and reporting statistics. This page has links to other important policy items, such as conflict of interest.
Includes guidelines for classroom copying, fair use, and a good discussion of current issues in scholarly communication.
Clear explanation and good examples; from Larry Trask, Univ. of Sussex (England)
from Jeff Radel of Kansas State University (USA).
.from John Wilkins at Ohio State University. A complete course with lots of useful links and examples
From Suffolk Univ. (UK); part of a series Research Process
includes Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, Quotations, Usage, Oxford, ...
Lots of useful information for the advanced learner.
from the National Physical Laboratory (UK)
Document preparation
The way I use LaTeX, R and Sweave for reproducible data analysis.
By Prof. Tony Roberts, Univ. S Queensland; a good explanation of why LaTeX
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A fun and easy way to see how do lots of things in LaTeX
Web authoring standards
Soil Resource Inventory Concepts & Methods
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(Spanish version of the preceding, translated by Ronald Vargas)
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Links from the Compendium of On-Line Soil Survey Information
Soil Classification
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outdated but maybe useful
Links from the Compendium of On-Line Soil Survey Information
Soil Survey Interpretations & Land Evaluation
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From a course I gave Cornell University in 1993 and 1994; somewhat outdated but still useful.
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Links from the Compendium of On-Line Soil Survey Information
ILWIS
Land Degradation, Conservation, & Rehabilitation
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Statistical software (R)
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Introductory lecture; includes a list of resources for learning R
(1.7 Mb)
Brief introduction to the sp and gstat packages
, version 3.8
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Comprehensive data analysis of a multivariate soils dataset, tutorial analysis of the Mercer-Hall wheat yield dataset, co-kriging using gstat, accuracy assesment of thematic maps, analyzing land cover change with logistic regression, optimal partitioning of soil transects, fitting rational functions to time series
Download, modify as necessary in a text editor, save to a .R file, and source() them; or you can paste the code directly into the R command line.
Spatial analysis & Geostatistics
These all use the R environment for statistical computing; I have written an introduction and several technical notes for this environment.
Two practical exercises (non-spatial, spatial) using R; non-spatial exercises uses engineering soils properties, spatial uses Davis' Kansas aquifer elevation.
Central server for all on-line geostatistics resources
Links from the Compendium of On-Line Soil Survey Information
Soil Geographic Data Bases
"This note is written for those who want to build a GIS of a relatively small project area for purposes of natural resources inventory, monitoring, and management. All such GIS should, if at all possible, include: (1) a base map, often referred to as a topographic map; (2) an airphoto mosaic; (3) thematic maps, i.e. polygon, segment, or point maps from air photo interpretation. (4) a multispectral satellite image and its products such as false-colour composites; All of these must be geo-referenced and geometrically-corrected in a common coordinate system."
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Somewhat outdated but might be a starting point.
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Spanish version of the preceding; translated, adapted and expanded by Ronald Vargas
Links from the Compendium of On-Line Soil Survey Information
Landform modelling
Links from the Compendium of On-Line Soil Survey Information
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