Instructor: Brian Klinkenberg
Office: Room 209
Office hours: Wed 1:00-3:00
Instructor: Brian Klinkenberg
Office: Room 209
Office hours: Wed 1:00-3:00
xx Winter: Term 2; 3 Credits URL: http://www.geog.ubc.ca/courses/geog570/
Instructor: B. Klinkenberg Room 209 (822-3534)
The class normally is scheduled to meet on Tuesdays at 1:00 - 4:00.
This course would cover a variety of topics of interest to those seeking more in-depth knowledge of GIScience and ancillary topics such as remote sensing and spatial statistics. The exact range of subjects changes from year-to-year, depending on the specific interests of the students. Some of the topics which were covered in previous years include:
| Historical background of GIS and its contextual setting
today |
Geocoding and coordinate systems | |
| Raster / vector data structures (Fundamental GIS concepts) | Remote sensing: basic concepts / advanced concepts | |
| Use of GIS by Indigenous groups | Integration of remote sensing and GIS | |
| GIS: ethical concerns and surveillance | Decision making in a GIS context | |
| Social/philosophical critiques of GIS | Temporal GIS | |
| Generalization | Spatial sampling | |
| Spatial interpolation | Spatial statistics / geostatistics | |
| GPS | Landscape ecology and GIS | |
| Error modelling and data uncertainty | Fuzzy logic |
The proposed schedule is based on a repeating four week schedule: two classes
will be dedicated to detailed presentations by BK, one class will involve a
field trip to a GIS company, and the fouth class will be a 'mini-conference'
wherein members of the class present a short overview on a topic of their choice.
Each presentee must provide a preliminary overview
of their talk (e.g., a one page summary) the week before their presentation
so that the rest of the class can get a sense of what will be presented.
The one-page overview will summarize the subject area and include some appropriate
references, including some URLs referencing off-campus sites with information
related to the subject area.. The overview should be emailed to me so that it
can be posted on the course web page. Each student will give three presentations
over the course of the term. For general guidelines in preparing your
presentation please refer to these presentation
guidelines pages.
A final essay/project of 15-20 pages will complete the formal course requirements. The essay/project may include some practical work (i.e., GIS-based analyses), and will most likely be related to the student's thesis topic. The essay/project must be an original piece of work developed for this course. Students will have access to ArcGIS.
The UK Association for Geographic Information (AGI) home page contains some useful links, for example they have an online dictionary produced in conjunction with the AAG. The Scientific Literature Digital Library (citeseer) is a wonderful site that has many papers available in PDF or ps, and allows you to follow the cited references from paper to paper.
Material will be posted on the web as details of the class become finalized.