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 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Computer Science (administered by the Learning Partnerships Office) |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 at City of Bath College Semester 2 at Weston College Semester 2 at Wiltshire College |
| Assessment:
| CW 60%, EX 30%, OR 10% |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: Students to be able to: * discuss the principles of applied Geographic Information Systems (GIS); * understand how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used to study and solve problems in transportation, environment, local government and business; * demonstrate their understanding of the application of GIS to applied problem solving by developing a GIS to meet an identified need in business, science or public policy making. Learning Outcomes: On completion of the unit the student should be able to: * Define the nature of geographic information and the type of decisions that make use of such information * Discuss the problems and techniques of representation, (including generalisation, discrete and continuous fields, georeferencing and uncertainty of data) * Develop a GIS to meet an identified need, using suitable software, appropriate data modelling and data collection techniques * Perform appropriate geovisualization, query, measurement and transformation and inference to the GIS they have developed. * Discuss issues of maintaining the currency of large scale geographic databases * Evaluate a geographical information system including fitness for purpose and data integrity issues that may affect the validity of the model and reduce dependency on the outcomes. Skills: * Academic skills - Research, analyse, compare and contrast, apply, evaluate. (T and A) * Practical skills - GIS programming skills, development skills, programming and SQL design skills, coding skills, management skills. (T and A) * Personal skills - time management, personal organisation, problem solving, and research. (T and A ) * Communication skills - demonstrations, working with an employer.(T and A) Content: * Problems of representation by abstraction and generalisation that are required to produce maps and useful spatial data sets. * Principles of uncertainty with respect to GIS. * Identify and use appropriate data representations; raster, vector, georeferencing; * Explain the limitations of data collection techniques * Develop a GIS. Identifying system requirements, developing a GIS application to meet the identified need, applying geo-referencing within the application and implement the design and populate it with data. * Spatial Analysis using the geographical information system by generating relevant hypotheses and applying these hypotheses to support decisions. |
| Programme availability: |
LP20550 is Optional on the following programmes:Programmes administered by the Learning Partnerships Office
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