GEOL 260 - GIS and Remote Sensing

Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Winter 2014 and alternate years

Prerequisite: GEOL 100, GEOL 101 or GEOL 105. For GEOL or ENV majors only, or by instructor consent. A laboratory course introducing the use of a Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing in geological/environmental analyses and decision making. Students use state-of-the-art software with a wide variety of spatial geologic, environmental, economic and topographic data derived from satellites; remote databases and published maps to evaluate geologic conditions; local landscape processes; environmental conditions; and hypothetical land-use cases. Harbor.