Geographical information experts deal with a wide variety of spatial information issues, such as the digital visual representation of city development plans for the use of citizens and businesses, the possible use of satellite images to monitor changes in forests in developing countries and combining soil, land use, topography and geomorphology data into a single map illustrating the probability of finding archaeological values in an area.This course is a hands on course on GIS.

Two weeks of practical's in the GIS Lab of the faculty of Geosciences:

- Working with ArcGIS desktop (ArcInfo) and Spatial-Analyst (data input, analysis and presentation)

- Automatic DEM extraction of aerial photographs using ERDAS Imagine Leica Photogrammetry suite 2011 (ATE and eAte)

- Mobile GIS / GPS with ArcPad 10

- Local and Global Geo-datasets (GIS, remote sensing)

- Poster makingSoftware and data are also available for students to work at home (laptop).



Period
04-07-2011 - 15-07-2011 (2 weeks)

Target group
Upper year (3rd/4th) bachelor students in the fields of earth sciences, geology, physical geography or related areas of study. Basic academic knowledge in physics/mathematics is strongly recommended.

Course aim
To familiarise students with working with geospatial data and software for landscape analysis on a local and global scale.

Credits
3.0 ECTS credits+ Certificate of Attendance

Course fee
EUR 895[Convert to USD]Course + course materials + housing EUR 560[Convert to USD]Course + course materials

Course leader
drs. Maarten Zeylmans van Emmichoven

Scholarships
Utrecht Summer School doesn't offer scholarships for this course.

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