Introduction to GIS

An introductory course on geospatial information science and systems. Up: Educational Resources

Course outline

• geospatial information and data (scientific and technical viewpoints)
• principles of databases,
• computer graphics and
• information technology architectures
• basic cartography and geodesy
• some remote sensing
• geospatial problem solving with information systems

Readings

Freely downloadable texts are needed.

Potentially useful material listed at freegis.org

Lectures

• GRASS Short Course 2003 (needs some updates)
• Introduction to GIS - A simple Bluetongue disease risk map (uses OSGeo software stack)
• girl games

Assignments

These need to have detailed instructions and pre-prepared datasets. Also instructions how to get and install the needed software.