GIS Project
SMT201 Geographic Information Systems for Urban Planning
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Contents
Overview
The purpose of the GIS project is to provide students first hand experience on building a GIS-Enabled Urban Planning Support System by integrating open government data and other open source data sets. You will also learn how to collecting, processing and analysing spatially related issues using real world data. Students are encouraged to focus on research topics that are relevant to their field of study.
The project is to be done in a team. You are required to form a project team of 2-3 members by the second week of the academic term. Each project team must start thinking about their project ideas after the first lesson. You are expected to discuss your project topic and scope of works with the instructor between week 2 to week 7 of the academic term. A project website must be prepared and uploaded to the course wiki page by the end of week 8.
Topic 1: Urban Master Plan Evaluation
In 2014, the Smart Nation initiative was launched by PM Lee. The vision of the smart nation is where people live meaningful and fulfilled lives, enabled seamlessly by technology, offering exciting opportunities for all.
The current efforts to realise this vision, however, tend to focus on: (i) implementing advanced It infrastructure such as wired up the entire nation with high-speed fibre cables, (ii) collecting more detail and granular data by using advanced technologies such as ioT and drone and (iii) applying smart technologies in health, transportation and home. However, there are very little efforts to disseminate these data to the public so that they can have access to appropriate information to participate in planning of the future of the country.
GIS for Smart Cities (GISSC) project is a non-funded practice research and development initiative lead by Dr. Kam Tin Seong, Associate Professor of Information Systems (Practice) at School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University. The project aims to provide students the opportunity to apply GIS techniques and methods to support public policy decision making and business operational strategies.
Scope of Work
The project will comprises of, but not limited to the followings steps:
- Selection of project area, ideally a planning area such as Ang Mo Kio
- Data collection
- Designing and building GIS model and database
- Performing GIS analysis
- Preparing report of survey
- Preparing poster and materials for townhall presentation
Please feel free to approach me for more details.
Project Milestone
- Formulation of project team: by week 2 before lesson
- Selecting project area: by week 3 before lesson
- Brainstorming project objectives and scope of work: between week 4-7
- Create project wiki page: by week 8
- Update project wiki and interim project discussion with instructor: week 10
- Submission of project poster: 13th November 2019, at 9.00am
- Final project poster presentation: 18th November 2019 (Monday), at 11:00am-4:00pm
- Submission of project artifacts and update project wiki: 24th November 2019 at 11.59pm (mid-night)
Grading
The GIS project will count for 50% of your final grade in the course. The distribution of marks for each stage of the project are as follows:
- Project proposal on wiki 5%
- Project poster 5%
- Poster presentation 10%
- Final project report on wiki 15%
- Project artifact 15%
The course instructor will consider strongly the novelty of the idea (If it has never been done before, you will get lots of credit!), how it addresses the problem at hand, the methodology you employ in doing the research, and your technical skill in implementing the idea.
In small group projects, each person will be graded individually. A good group project is a system consisting of a collection of well defined subsystems. Each subsystem should be the responsibility of one person and be clearly identified as their project. A good criteria for whether you should work in a group is whether the system as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts!
Townhall Poster Presentation
Date: 18th November 2019 (Monday)
Venue: TBC
Time: 11:00am - 4.00pm
We will organise a public presentation of the final projects. The presentation will be in the form of a poster session and live demo. You are required to bring a laptop with a working demo of your system. You should set up the laptop near your poster and use it to explain your project. During the presentation session, visitors and course instructor will view the various posters that are put up and pose questions to find out more details of the project. Be prepared to give a short 5-10 minute oral explanation and demo of what you did.
Deliverables
Project Proposal
As a first step, you should create a project wiki page (in the form of a wiki page) that includes the names of the members in your group, a title and a short (150-250 words) description of the GIS project, and a project proposal. The project proposal should include but not limited to the followings:
- Motivation of the project
- Project objective
- Data
- Scope of work
- Project schedule including a Gannt chart
Poster
The poster should provide an overview of your project. It should include, but not limited to the following information:
- Issues and problems - A clear statement of the issues or/and problems your project addresses.
- Motivation - An explanation of why the issues and/or problems are interesting and what make them difficult to solve.
- Approach - A description of the techniques or algorithms you used to solve the problem.
- Results - Screenshots and a working demo of the system you built.
- Future Work - An explanation of how the work could be extended.
The poster will be in ANSI A1 size (22" × 34" or 559mm × 864mm). It has to be in jpeg format. Please ensure that the poster is in high resolution (at least 300 dpi).
The poster will be considered a final deliverable, so don't forget to apply good visual design principles to your poster as well as your project.
Note: The course instructor will be responsible for printing your poster. You are required to upload your posters to the wiki page of your project one week and your project Dropbox before the poster presentation.
Below are sample posters for your reference:
- Interactive Area Hotspot Detection [1]
- A City's Heartbeat[2]
- BussStop[3]
- Decrypting The Housing Prices In Singapore [4]
Final Deliverable
General
The final deliverable will include:
- artifact, an implementation of your system (source code and executable)
- project report on wiki
Project Report
The project report should focus on but not limited to the followings:
- A detail discussion of the GIS analysis process and functions used.
- A comprehensive discussion of the analysis results.
- A collection of analytical maps (can be statics or interactive web maps)
Submission instruction
Your final deliverable is due (submitted to LMS Dropbox) by the end of the day on 24th November 2019 at 11.59pm (mid-night).
Sample Projects
Note that the following examples are for references purposes. You are urged to use your own creativity and innovation to design the application.
Past Year IS415 Projects
Year 2012/2013 term 2 Projects:[5]
Year 2013/2014 term 2 Projects:[6]
Year 2014/2015 term 2 Projects:[7]
Year 2015/2016 term 2 Projects:[8]
Year 2016/2017 term 2 Projects:[9]
Past Year SMT201 GIS Project
Yaer 2018/2019 Term 1 Projects: [10]
External Sites
- Department of Geography, NUS [11]
