060334140 GIS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ( 2 Crd.Hrs )

Pre-Requisites : 060332280

The course deals with concepts and theory of geographic information systems and their use for environmental mapping, spatial modeling, and analysis. Topics covered include the relationship of GIS models to real-world perception and map representation; spatial modeling; translation of problems into GIS procedures; attribute manipulation and recoding, reclassification, proximity and neighborhood analyses; input of data to GIS; database structures; interpolation of surfaces form point and vector data; applications and case studies. Practical work uses PC-based software to teach basic skills in GIS data entry, analysis, and output, emphasizing a problem-solving approach through environmental and agricultural GIS case studies