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2013 - 2014 Graduate Catalog 
    
2013 - 2014 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

GIS 502 - Fundamentals of GIS


Summer (1) Corequisite(s):  

GIS 501 - Fundamentals of GIS

GIS combines spatial data, often alongside tabular data, to map, analyze, and offer answers to questions posed in many differing disciplines. At William and Mary, GIS is used to model nutrient inputs from agriculture into the Chesapeake Bay, evaluate the role of school boundaries in determining neighborhood demographics, analyze international aid flows, create species distribution models, assess the the role of fire in agriculture, monitor social discord in Africa, asses local health outcomes, and measure the extent of coastal deforestation in South America. The GIS fundamentals course will use GIS-based research projects to introduce the fundamentals of vector data, raster data, database operations, and interpolative techniques within a GIS environment.