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Geography 541- Advanced Cartography

This course examines current issues and approaches in cartography and geographic visualization, focusing on the uses of interactivity and animation in cartography in order to facilitate thinking, problem solving, and decision making. Through a series of mini-projects during the first part of the course, the student will gain experience in the use of computers and graphics software to develop interactive cartographic visualizations. Students will complete a fully interactive or animated, web-publishable map as a final project.

The student's understanding of course material is determined by means of a mid-term examination, the grading of a series of mini-projects, and a grade on the final map project.

Geography 551- Principles of Remote Sensing

This course introduces fundamental concepts of remote sensing of the environment. First, the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with earth surface materials is explored. Then, various types of remote sensor systems are introduced so that the user can match the most appropriate sensor system with the application. The latter part of the course emphasizes applications of remote sensing to earth resource investigations, including: remote sensing of vegetation, water, urban/suburban infrastructure, and soils and rocks. Evaluation is based on lab exercises (30%), a mid-term (30%), and a final exam (40%).

Geography 763 - Seminar/Geographic Info Systems - Web-Based GIS

The purpose of the course is to study selected research topics in geographical information systems. The methods used to examine each topic are both pragmatic and theoretical; including GIS assignments (mini-tasks), review of research articles (or relevant chapters), and classroom discussion. The Spring 2007 semester we will focus entirely on Internet/Web methods for GIS applications. Many of the concepts and implementation approaches change rapidly in Web-Based GIS. The current areas of interest are web services, AJAX with implementations using Visual Studios, ArcServer, Googlemaps / Earth, MS Virtual Earth. These are the concept and implementation alternatives that we will concentrate on in the Spring of 2008 seminar. The Department has purchased a new web server for this and related courses.