ENV 550L Topic:Advanced Geographic Processing

Prerequisites: ENV 526G and ENV 526H.  Geographic data is a special class of data that is referenced to a specific place on the Earth through an established coordinate system. The advent of the Global Positioning System, geographic Information Systems, and public portals such as Google Earth has made the collection, analysis, and presentation of geographic information a powerful tool in the environmental sciences as well as a variety of other disciplines. This course will provide the student with working knowledge of the Python scripting language that is used to automate geo-processing tools in ARCGIS. The student will also learn Keyhole Markup Language, the engine behind Google Earth. With these tools, the student will prepare sophisticated, web-driven applications that will allow for the analysis and presentation of data in an interactive environment.