Link to syllabus and lecture schedule for last offering (2003)
This course provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts required for properly collecting data and information about environmental variables. The course emphasizes the collection of spatial information through interpretation and review of maps, and aerial photographs and other imagery, and through field surveying procedures.COURSE OBJECTIVES:
At the conclusion of the course, students should be able to:
1. Measure a range of environmental variables;
2. Properly use measured information, including quality assessment;
3. Classify the important systems used to describe location on the earth;
4. Interpret and analyze maps to collect environmental information;
5. Use elementary remote sensing and photogrammetric techniques to acquire environmental information;
6. Understand plane surveying procedures for data collection and mapping.
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