ESPM4295W: GIS in Environmental Science and Management
4 CreditsIntellectual CommunityWriting Intensive
Application of geographic information science and technologies (GIS) in complex environmental problems. Students gain experience in spatial data collection, database development, and spatial analysis, including GNSS and field attribute collection, image interpretation, and existing data fusion, raster/vector data integration and analysis, information extraction from LiDAR data, DEM conditioning and hydrologic analysis, neighborhood analysis, bulk processing and automation, and scripting. Problems vary depending on topics, often with extra-University partners.
prereq: FNRM 3131 or Geog 3561 or instr consent