Course code: 3052 + Clayton campus + Mid-year entry available + Course coordinator: Jim Peterson
This course seeks to provide education and training in recently adopted methods of digital spatial data handling, with special reference to thematic mapping relevant to the environmental and social sciences, planning and facilities management. Students will learn how to test and derive information from a range of data products, including satellite images and data sets from public and commercial spatial data vendors. In addition, units offered include one that introduces students to the Global Positioning System run by NAVSTAR, and others that deal with analysis of the digital data behind satellite images, spatial analysis using the vector and the raster data models, and spatial modelling for network analysis and for decision making and conflict resolution. Application of knowledge gained is then tested and explored in stage 2 of the course, which involves training in GIS project formulation and execution.
Candidates for admission to this course should normally hold a first degree with a major sequence in a social or an environmental (including forestry cartography, planning, landscape architecture and building) or social science, or a Faculty Certificate in GIS with a credit average.
Students complete 48 including two core units and two electives from stage 1, and two core units from stage 2:
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