COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GIS IN EARTH SCIENCES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GIS 5025 GIS IN EARTH SCIENCES ELECTIVE 2 0 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 (ENGLISH)
Geographical Information Systems (Non-Thesis) (English)
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ENGLISH)
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS - NON THESIS (EVENING PROGRAM) (ENGLISH)

Course Objective

Search for Geological Resources, evaluation of hazards, environmental impact and site selection studies also require the simultaneous appraisal of spatial data from several sources. Some earthscience applications of GIS that could be used to illustrate GIS methodology are; hazard mapping related to slope stability and landslides, earthquake damage zonation, coastal erosion, site selection for engineering projects such as settlement suitability, waste disposal (municipal landfills, nuclear waste in disposal wells), pipeline route and railway routing, dams, resource evaluation for a variety of geological commodities such as sand, gravel, building stone and geothermal.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Principles of Remote Sensing
2   resource evaluation for a variety of geological commodities such as sand, gravel, building stone
3   coastal erosion
4   site selection for engineering projects such as settlement suitability, waste disposal (municipal landfills, nuclear waste in disposal wells)
5   Geothermal
6   site selection for engineering projects pipeline route and railway routing
7   hazard mapping related to slope stability and landslides
8   earthquake damage zonation

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Review of Principles of Remote Sensing
2 Review of Principles of Remote Sensing
3 Remote Sensing in Geology
4 Multispectral Thermal Infrared data in Geological Studies
5 Geobotany: Vegetation Mapping in Earth Sciences
6 Spectroscopy of Rocks and Minerals and Principles of Spectroscopy
7 Geological Mapping and Remote Sensing
8 Image Lineaments and Circular Structures
9 Spectral Analysis for Earth Science Investigation
10 Presentations
11 Visible and Infrared: Sensors and Case Studies
12 Radar: Sensors and Case Studies
13 Case Studies
14 Case Studies

Recomended or Required Reading

1) Remote Sensing for Earth Sciences, Manual of Remote Sensing Thirdh Edition, Volume 3
2)Remote Sensing of Natural Resources, David L. Verbyla
3) Aerospatial Remote Sensing In Geology

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures
Presentations
Computer Applications

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


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 13 2 26
Preparation for quiz etc. 2 30 60
Reading 10 3 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Quiz etc. 2 5 10
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 194

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.232424241215
LO.331255223245
LO.452214215221
LO.522512522332
LO.652254252252
LO.742442242514
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