Practical applications of computer mapping systems. Two hours lecture and two hours laboratory per week, plus field trips. Acquisition of airphotos with conventional cameras as well as compact digital cameras. Handling, scanning, processing, interpretation, enhancement, and display of analog and digital aerial images. Practical field and laboratory exercises.
Course is designed for students in the geospatial analysis program.
The student may concentrate in an area of the earth sciences for which no regular course is available if there are adequate texts, library holdings, and laboratory resources. The blank will be filled with an appropriate short description on the student's transcript to indicate the subject area studied. The seminar is designed to provide an opportunity for in-depth examination of selected topics of physical geography. It is a geographical analysis of the spatial characteristics of one or more factors that constitute the physical environment. The seminar specifically treats such subjects as climate, soils, landforms, and biogeography.