GEO4080 – Applied geographical information management
Course description
Course content
The course is a practical introduction into geographical information handling. You will use modern computer technology to sample, manage, analyse and publish geographical data.
Learning outcome
Knowledge and skills:
The students will learn
- Reading geographical data
- Producing of simple maps
- Simple vector and raster analysis
- Basic principles of remote sensing and presentations of images
Attitudes:
- The course aims at fostering and developing scientific curiosity around the course theme and a critical reflection of representativeness, accuracy, reliability and importance of the data and results
Admission
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.
Prerequisites
Formal prerequisite knowledge
No obligatory prerequisites beyond the minimum requirements for entrance to higher education in Norway.
Overlapping courses
- 5 credits overlap with GEG1240 – Maps and geodata (discontinued)
- 2 credits overlap with GEG2240 – Introduction to remote sensing (continued)
Teaching
Will be given as a two weeks intensive course with lectures and computer lab. Daily obligatory lab assignments, which all have to be passed.
Attendance at the first lecture is compulsory. Students who fail to meet, are considered to have withdrawn from the course unless they have previously given notice to the Studies administration, email address: studieinfo@geo.uio.no
Examination
You pass the course when all 10 lab reports are approved.
General information about examinations at the faculty can be found at www.matnat.uio.no/english/studies/index.html
Language of examination
In this co