Tech Issues in GIS-Cartography (GISC 425)

• College: Coll of Engineering Technology
• Department: Surveying
• Credit Hours: 3
• This course has a lecture with 2 hours.
• This course has a lab with 3 hours.

Advanced concepts of geographic information systems and modern cartography will be studied. Topics covered include: metadata, federal and state spatial databases, map generalization, map labeling, advanced spatial data analysis, Digital Elevation Model (DEM), interpolation methods, DEM analysis such as slope, aspect, watershed, line of sight and grid operations. These topics will be linked to the data collection courses photogrammetry, remote sensing, land surveying and geodesy. Laboratory assignments will be project oriented using existing raster and vector GIS software. Prerequisites: SURE 227 and SURE 325. Typically offered Fall and Spring.