GIS for Urban Environments

Earth environment is a single, vast interdependent system. We cannot make demands on the environment in one part of the world without creating consequences in another. Earth’s increasingly complex environmental challenge demand increasingly sophisticated solutions. Geographic information system (GIS) is one solution to humanity’s need to better manage. Protect and preserve our environment.

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1. Understand Map concepts, how GIS works, technical terms in GIS, common task in GIS

2. Describe types of data model and its uses, difference between vector and raster, consideration of scale and generalization

3. Give example on analysis unit and aggregation considerations

4. Explain types of coordinate system, and their need

5. Explain types of maps and their comparison, appropriateness to map variables for different application

6. Describe use of thematic maps in planning and decision making

7. Explain types of measurement scale and difference among them, use of scale specific theme

8. Describe kinds of classification terms and data exploration terms

9. Explain related geo-technologies like GPS, LiDAR, Remote Sensing etc

10. Understand 3D mapping, mobile mapping and its advantage

11. Understand map elements and consideration for effective map composition

12. Understand database tables, importing exporting data from spreadsheets, text files etc

13. Describe SQL querying language, and compose conditional quires

14. Understand joining of the data based on a unique field, view statistics and groping data tables