James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2001

GE3503:03

GIS for Environmental Analysis

Townsville

Prerequisites: TG2100 (GE2502) and an introductory course in statistics or biometry
Inadmissable Subject Combination: GE5503 TG3113 TG5101

December intensive block mode.

This subject covers a range of analytical concepts and techniques particularly applicable to geographical data in the environmental sciences, including point pattern analysis, spatial autocorrelation, interpolation, terrain modelling and visualisation techniques.

Learning Objectives:

  1. have a sound understanding of a range of important spatial analysis techniques and their environmental applications;
  2. understand the relative merits of various interpolation and estimation techniques;
  3. be able to implement complex spatial analyses using a standard GIS tool kit;
  4. be able to design spatial analyses to support environmental problems.

Assessment by on course work (60%); examination (40%).