GE5502:03
Geographic and Land Information Systems
| Townsville, Cairns | HECS Band 2 |
26 hours lectures, 39 hours practicals. Semester 1.
Staff: Dr R Thwaites (Townsville campus); Professor D Gillieson (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 on-course assessment (60%); final examination (40%).