GIS APPLIED IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

The course covers the following main topics:  Introduction and theoretical issues in GIS;  Areas of GIS applicability;  GIS components;  GIS functions;  Spatial data structures. Internal representation of vector layers. Internal encoding of a raster;  Databases;  Spatial data acquisition;  Data conversions. Data import. Import from other GIS software. Import from CAD software;  Data structures. Designing a database for attribute data;  Acquiring and integrating data;  Attribute and spatial queries;  Building surface models;  Exploratory data analysis;  Maps and digital cartography. Thematic mapping techniques.

 Using GIS enhances students' ability to think critcally about analyzing data.  Using GIS promotes students' ability to use numbers and numeric skills, and to use tools that facilitate processing and transferreing information.;  This technology enables students to visualize spatial patterns, linkages, and relationships. GIS is used not only in geography courses, but in environmental studies, earth science, history, mathematics, chemistry, biology, language arts,and other subjects.