Advanced Topics Geographic Information Science
Objectives
Not applicable
General characterization
Code
300028
Credits
7.5
Responsible teacher
Marco Octávio Trindade Painho
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Portuguese. If there are Erasmus students, classes will be taught in English
Prerequisites
- The importance and the particularities of Geographic Information
- Towards a Geospatial Awareness - Understanding the distinctive features of geographic data
- From Geospatial Awareness to Geographic Information Science
- Towards a Geographic Information Science definition
- A brief history of Geographic Information Systems
- Ontology and Representation
- Computation (Geocomputation)
- Cognition
- Applications, Institutions and Society
- Crosscutting Research Themes: Time and Scale
-Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) in GIS
-Principles and applications
-Limits of GIS and spatial analysis in MCDA
- Presentation of NOVA IMS papers related to this topic.
-Land change analysis and environmental impacts
-Biophysical and monetary quantification of ecosystem services using land cover.
-Monitoring ecosystem services from space.
-Land change models.
-Scenarios.
Bibliography
Not applicable
Teaching method
Essays:
- Participation (2,5%)
¿ Presentations (7,5%)
¿ Articles (15%)
Projects/Paper:
- Participation (2,5%)
- Presentations (7,5%)
- Implementation (15%)
Evaluation method
English
Subject matter
- Lectures
- Topic discussions
- Student presentations and discussions