COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MODELLING APPLIED GIS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GIS 6006 MODELLING APPLIED GIS ELECTIVE 0 3 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS - NON THESIS (EVENING PROGRAM)
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Geographical Information Systems (Non-Thesis)

Course Objective

In particular, it aims to make the transition from GIS as a descriptive, data management tool to GIS as an analytical research tool for drawing policy-relevant conclusions from vector data. To a degree. Upon completion of Applied GIS, you should have a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of a modern GIS software environment and the necessary applied skills to independently complete a GIS project including establishing objectives, reviewing literature and/or practices elsewhere, identifying, acquiring, converting and integrating the required data, creating GIS layers (themes) in multiple different formats, editing, correcting and modifying GIS layers, conducting geographic analyses, customizing software applications, and drawing and presenting legitimate conclusions and results. These skills will be essential for completing work in other courses in the geographical information sciences curriculum at UTD and for conducting GIS projects in the real world .

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to make the transition from GIS as a descriptive, data management tool to GIS as an analytical research tool for drawing policy-relevant conclusions from vector data.
2   the fundamentals of a modern GIS software environment
3   the necessary applied skills to independently complete a GIS project including establishing objectives, reviewing literature and/or practices

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 GIS Data Types and Structures using ArcCatalog Using ArcCatalog
2 GIS Data Processing using ArcToolbox and Modelbuilder
3 Spatial Analysis using ArcMap Toxic Site Analysis
4 Analyzing Tables using ArcMap Toxic Site Analysis
5 Georeferencing Georeferencing
6 CAD Conversion CAD Conversion
7 Creating & Editing Geodata: Geodatabases, Line Editing and Line Topology City Data Layer Creation
8 Networks and Network Modeling Networks
9 Mid-term examination
10 Polygon Processing and Analysis Census Data Analysis
11 Surfaces and Surface Generation Surfaces
12 Customizing ArcGIS: Customization
13 Point Pattern Analysis and Spatial Statistics spatstat
14 Mid-term examination

Recomended or Required Reading

REFERENCE BOOKS
Applied GIS and Spatial Analysis
John Stillwell, Graham Clarke
Wiley, 2003
ISBN: 0470844094

GIS Applications in Agriculture
Francis J. Pierce David Clay
CRC Press, 2007
ISBN: 0849375266

Geographic Information Systems for Geoscientists: Modelling with GIS
G.F. Bonham-Carter
Pergamon, 1995
ISBN: 0080424201

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assignments
Exams

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 PRJ PROJECT
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.30 + MTE * 0.40 + PRJ * 0.30


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 2 25 50
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparing the laboratory notebook 10 3 30
Midterm 2 3 6
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 194

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.154334542244
LO.242444542455
LO.333334254224