A culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Senior standing is required.
Use of aircraft and satellite imagery for monitoring landforms, soils, vegetation and land use, with the focus on problems of land-use planning, resource management and related topics.
Crosslisted with: ENVS/GEOG/PLG/RNR 483
Use of geospatial techniques and methods (database design, GIS, GPS, remote sensing, programming) to design and development spatial products and applications. Students are complete an independent project where they design and develop an application and its associated database. (Prerequisites: GIST 417, GIST 330, GIST 315).
This course introduces fundamentals of database design, development, and analysis for Geographic Information Systems. Emphasis is on geospatial data and suitable database designs, and on database administration for GIS Enterprise. Topics include requirements engineering for geo-databases, database design using the Entity-Relationship model, object-relational database implementation, database normalization, database optimization, data handling, security risk management, and IT auditing. Database technologies will be demonstrated with two Spatial Database Management Systems: PostgreSQL/PostGIS and ArcGIS Server/Enterprise. Database programming will make use of Python, SQL, and Procedural SQL in PostGIS. A business case is developed as part of coursework, to train the student in the database lifecycle that supports organizational operations, planning, and data management in GIS. (Prerequisites: GIST 417)
Methods of gathering and analyzing data for the solution of geographical, urban, and regional planning problems, with emphasis on quantitative and statistical techniques used in spatial analysis and cartography, on the one hand, and program planning, on the other.
Combining aspects of Remote Sensing and GIS, this course will teach you everything you need to know to confidently plan for, acquire, process, and interpret drone data as well as produce re-source maps (e.g., aerial photography maps) and become a li-censed UAS pilot.
Examines various areas of advanced GIS applications such as dynamic segmentation, surface modeling, spatial statistics, and network modeling. The use of high performance workstations will be emphasized.
Crosslisted with: GEOG/RNR 420
Computer techniques for analyzing, modeling, and displaying geographic information. Development of spatially oriented problem design and the use of logic are applied to the use of GIS programs. Emphasis on applications in land resources management and planning.
Introduction to the application of GIS and related technologies for both the natural and social sciences. Conceptual issues in GIS database design and development, analysis, and display.
Crosslisted with: GEOG/RNR/SW/SWES 417
Introduces principles and practices of Geovisualization (Geoviz) and softwares (Community and ERDAS Image).
Crosslisted with: GEOG/RNR 416E
