Handbook

Geographic information systems have improved considerably over the past decade in response to a world that has become much richer in digital geographic information. The requirement to build complex applications and simulations has become more urgent with the need to plan for a changing climate, to feed an increasing population and to provide pinpoint marketing analysis for business. This course explores a toolbox of conceptual approaches and methods to model and analyse a range of highly complex, often non-deterministic problems. It provides a true enabling technology for the natural sciences and a rich source of computational and representational challenges for the computer sciences. Topics covered include dynamic spatio-temporal modelling; geostatistics; error analysis and data accuracy; network analysis; and machine learning and artificial intelligence methods in GIS.
The course includes 12 hours of lectures and 26 hours of computer labs.
Assumed knowledge: GEOS9016/other prior coursework in geospatial science.