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

Programs

Programs where the course is taught: