GE5502:03
Geographic and Land Information Systems
Townsville, Cairns
Prerequisites: Admission to postgraduate program
Inadmissable Subject Combination: GE3501 TG3110 TG5102
26 lectures, 39 hours practicals. First semester.
Staff: Mr J Moloney (Townsville campus); Mr J Monaghan (Cairns campus).
This subject introduces participants to the variety of spatial data structures and analytical techniques that are available for representing and analysing spatial relationships between differing kinds of geographic phenomena.
Cartographic analysis and the monitoring of continuous and episodic change are applied to landuse and environmental models in Northern Australia.
Learning Objectives:
- raster and vector approaches to the organisation of geographic information;
- spatial analysis in a vector GIS;
- principles of survey design, error management and decision support in vector GIS.
Assessment by two laboratory assessments (each 25%); literature review (15%); a two-hour examination (35%).