9:00am-3:00pm

Module 6: Introduction to Google SketchUp:
It is all about helping you to visualize the issues more clearly, along with helping others who need to know.

– First Principles: Thinking in 3-Dimensions
– Google Earth and Google SketchUp are easily linked (they made it that way)
– Taking measurements on Google Earth: First X (length) and Y (width)
– Then Z (height) using shadows and available date and derivable time

Two different ways to create models
– Match Photo (if you have ground photos)
Uses and limitations
Sketchup match photo demonstration video
– Using only 2D satellite imagery (if you don’t have ground photos)

Building models, it is simple solid geometry (start simple and build from there)
All the gadgets reviewed here:
– Navigation with a scroll wheel mouse
– Orbit, zoom, and pan
– Drawing
– Pencil
– Shapes
– Arcs
– Push/Pull Tool
– Tape measure and grids
– Moving
– Scaling
– Components and Groups
– Follow-me tool (and how to make cones, domes and arrays)

Downloading free textures
Texturing (how to do it: the easy way, and the more difficult way)

Break

Build a model (of what? Your house or a nuclear reactor?)
Exemplars tell the story: North Korea update

Walk-though by instructor of how to build a model of nonproliferation relevance

Class Exercise: one hour project to create a simple textured 3-D model

Let’s Build here! 25°48’39.97″S  27°55’31.28″E

Lunch

Module 7: Putting it All Together to Derive New, Value-Added, Nonproliferation Relevant Information

Instructor Exemplars to review the process

Break

Final Class Exercise: Two hour project to solve a real-world nonproliferation puzzle and creating a final presentation to show how you obtained the answer using the Geospatial tools.

Review, Wrap-up and Final Q&A (& Evaluations)