| Forest & Landscape | |||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | BSc. 2 year to MSc. 1 year | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Level | Joint BSc and MSc | ||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination Written Exam in Lecturehall No aid allowed Description of Examination: Written exam of 2 hours containing written responses to short, factual questions referring to the text of all exercises and the obligatory course texts. Weight: 100% on the written exam. 7-point scale, internal examiner Dates of Exam: 11 April 2008 | ||||||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | Exercise reports 3, 6 and 7 have to be handed in. Further the project work has to be displayed and accepted as a public poster. | ||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Formal lectures, hands-on exercises and project work. | ||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 3 Week Structure: C Exercises and project work in Center for Graphical Data handling (CGD) | ||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | Comprehensive knowledge of IT including good practical skills. Comparable to the level of the course 'Mathematics and data handling' of the Natural resources bachelor education or the like. | ||||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | 65 | ||||||||||||||||
| Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||||
| Basic science The course will give the student knowledge of the basic concepts being used when acquiring, automating, handling, analysing and presenting geographical information - including digital maps. This way the student will obtain the needed theoretic as well as practical skills and competences. He/she will be enabled to use the achieved theoretic knowledge when evaluation the quality of available data and produced results. Applied science The student will learn to handle the GIS-programme ArcGIS from ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute). The course - and the material being used - will enable the student independently to used and understand GIS in the context of their own work related to projects and exercises during and after their study. Ethics and values The student must be made aware of possibilities and potential problems related to the use of GIS and geo data. This way he/she will be able to reflect upon and discuss analytical, communicative and organisational aspects - directly and indirectly in relation to programs being used for the course. | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||||
| Geographical information Systems are being used routinely in the public as well as the private sector for planning and management. At the same time laypersons are using GIS when searching information and guidance via the Internet. In this light it the objective of the course to provide the student with the needed practical and principal understanding of the special aspects in relation to geographical information - analytical, technically, organisationally and communicatively. | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||||
| The course comprises: Introduction to elementary concepts Data acquisition and automation Danish data sources - how to find and acquire data Data formats - how data are converted, transformed and imported Systems for storage and proliferation of geo data The vector data model (discrete objects) Handling attribute data The raster data model (continuous phenomena) Assessment of spatial inaccuracy Digital elevation models Digital cartography Internet based GIS | |||||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||
| The course is constituted by lectures, exercises and project work. The practical exercises and the project work are comparable in time expenditure. It is recommended that the projects are conjoined with activities related to other courses and project works. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Stipulated in "Areas of Competence the Course Will Address" | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||||
| 1) An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems (Paperback) by Ian Heywood, Sarah Cornelius, and Steve Carver 2) ESRI. What is GIS? Available on-line in CGD 3) ESRI. Using ArcGIS Spatial Analyst. Available on-line in CGD 4) On-line: http://www.geodata-info.dk/ | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||
| Hans Skov-Petersen, hsp@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Urban and landscape studies, Phone: 35331816 Martin Kyhn, kyhn@dsr.life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Urban and landscape studies, Phone: 35331832 | |||||||||||||||||
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