Map construction, collection of raw data, and analysis of environmental variables. Problems of renewable and nonrenewable resource management. Spatial analyses of peoples, languages, religions, folk and popular culture, and the varying impacts of cultures on environments. Emphasis on societal system factors that influence urban development. Examination of major environmental, social, political, and economic trends that involve the restructuring of society and space at a variety of scales.
Topics vary from term to term.
Specific titles available at time of registration. Digital computers in management and analysis of multidimensional data. Introduction to user-oriented packages, including statistical routines, trend surface analysis, and factor analysis. Geocoding, transformations, storage and representation, spatial statistics, and data sources. Application of satellite sensing to the study of the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere.