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Harris County GIS

Students will learn about different datasets covering Harris County and how to bring them into a Geographic Information System (GIS) to be analyzed.

Students will learn aboout different datasets covering Harris County and how to bring them into a Geographic Information System (GIS) to be analyzed.
Schedule:

Please e-mail gisdata@rice.edu to sign-up and schedule this short course. 


Topics:
  • Determining the area of interest (Streets, USGS quads, Lambert grid)
  • Tiger files
  • Aerial photography
  • Satellite imagery
  • DRG's
  • Census information
  • City of Houston GIS (Parcels, Buildings, Citypoints)
  • Topography (NED, Lidar)
  • Geocoding
  • Other sources of information
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