##Grassroots Mapping Curriculum (BETA)## 2011, Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science. publiclaboratory.org This curriculum draft outlines materials, activities and technical documentation in support of DIY cartographic curricula. It is intended as a framework for reuse at a variety of institutions including the University of South Alabama, Parsons and Rhode Island School of Design. Portions of this curriculum will also serve as background information for designing community workshops. ###Participating institutions and courses### * San Diego State University Geography Department's [Fall 2011 for Geography 496: Selected Studies in Geography](/wiki/mapping-curriculum-sdsu-geography-496) ###Units### The following units are being slowly ported over from the [Google document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/17WqKoe8mvFgrRWdxS7bAPCPQTWxnj1SqoHLy04RJKbs/edit), and the idea is that any class can pick and choose units appropriate to their curriculum; some are more technically oriented, and some have broader subject material. * [Introduction and theory of aerial image mapping](/wiki/mapping- **Field work: capturing images** curriculum-introduction) * [Field work](/wiki/mapping-curriculum-field-work) * [Regulatory situation](/wiki/mapping-curriculum-regulatory) * [Platform creation and first flight](/wiki/mapping-curriculum-platform) **Processing and publication** * [Image processing](/wiki/mapping-curriculum-image-processing) * [Calculating Pixel Resolution](/wiki/calculating-pixel-resolution) * [Publishing maps](/wiki/mapping-curriculum-publishing) * [Applied mapmaking for research projects](/wiki/mapping-curriculum-research-applications) * [GIS applications](/wiki/mapping-curriculum-gis-applications) * [Activities](/wiki/mapping-curriculum-activities) **Advanced topics** * [Multispectral imaging](/wiki/mapping-curriculum-multispectral-imaging) * [NDVI](/wiki/ndvi) * [Links, citations](/wiki/mapping-curriculum-citations)