Module Identifier | GG10720 | ||
Module Title | GEOGRAPHIC DATA ACQUISITION, ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Mark J Whitehead | ||
Semester | Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters) | ||
Other staff | Dr Bryn P Hubbard, Dr Richard M Lucas, Dr Robert J Mayhew, Dr Bill Edwards | ||
Pre-Requisite | Acceptance on a Geography Single Honours or Joint Honours degree programme. | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 18 Hours 1 hr lectures. | |
Practical | Practicals / Field Days. 10 x 2 hrs practicals, 4 x 1 hr practicals, 2 half day fieldwork | ||
Assessment | Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: Cartographic Analysis 20%; GIS/Remote Sensing 20% ; Computer Cartography 20%; Statistics 20%; Fieldwork 20%. All components must be submitted in order to obtain a pass in the module, though late submissions will be subject to the usual departmental penalties. Failure due to non-submission of work will normally result in denial of the opportunity to resit. | 100% |
Supplementary Assessment | All components must be submitted in order to obtain a pass in the module. The resit involves submitting failed components, reworking original exercises or undertaking equivalent pieces of work, according to the requirements of each section of the module. Students will be notified in writing of their specific resit requirements by the module coordinator. | 100% |
The module is organised around five sections:
Section 1: Computing - data storage, spreadsheets, graphics (3 weeks).
Section 2: The Principles of Cartography - Map design and analysis (2 weeks).
Section 3: Computer Cartography - Map design, Map Production (5 weeks).
Section 4: GIS - Remote Sensing (2 weeks).
Section 5: Qualitative data sources (1 week).
Section 6: Statistics (4 weeks).
Section 7: Geographical field methodologies (2 half days).