GE3503:03
GIS for Environmental Analysis
Townsville
HECS Band 2
December block mode.
Staff: Dr A Lewis.
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:
- have a sound understanding of a range of important spatial analysis techniques and their environmental applications;
- understand the relative merits of various interpolation and estimation techniques;
- be able to implement complex spatial analyses using a standard GIS tool kit;
- be able to design spatial analyses to support environmental problems.
Assessment by on course work (60%); examination (40%).