| WEEK | DATE | TOPICS | Textbook chapters | DUE | Paper | Group |
| 1 | 1/20-22 | Introduction, Motivation | SC 1 | |||
| 2 | 1/27-29 | Models of spatial data | SC 2 | HW 0 | ||
| 3 | 2/3-5 | Spatial query languages | SC 3 | |||
| 4 | 2/10-12 | Spatial storage Methods | SC 4 | HW 1 | ||
| 5 | 2/17-19 | Processing Spatial Queries | SC 5 | HW 2 | ||
| 6 | 2/24-26 | Query Processing | SC 5 | |||
| 7 | 3/2-4 | Spatial Networks | SC 6 | HW 3 | SN 1 | G10 |
| 8 | 3/9-11 | Mining spatial data | SC 7 | SDM 2 | G 9 | |
| 9 | 3/16-18 | Spring Break | ||||
| 10 | 3/23-25 | Review | MQ Exam. | |||
| 11 | 3/30-4/1 | Rastor Data, Data Warehouses | SC 8 | |||
| 12 | 4/6-8 | Sensor networks, Spatio-temporal DBMS | HW 4 | MOSTD 1.2, MOSTD 1.6, MSD 1, MSD 2 | G 11, G4, G8 | |
| 13 | 4/13-15 | Mobile objects, Location based services | HW 5 | MOSTD 4, QL 1, QL 2 | G3, G2, G7 | |
| 14 | 4/20-22 | Security, Cyber-infrastructure | HW 6 | SCN 1.3, 3, and 4 | G 1, G 5, G 6 | |
| 15 | 4/27-29 | Project Presentations | ||||
| 16 | 5/4-6 | Project Presentations | ||||
| 17 | 5/11-18 | Final Exam (8-10am, Wed. May 12th) |
Numbers starting with SC refer to text book. In addition to the books, we will also study a couple of papers from relevant conference proceedings and journals. A list of these papers appears at the end of this paper by weekely topics. Most papers are available on-line.