10435 (v.2) Digital Cartography 682

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Area:	Department of Spatial Sciences
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Other Requisite(s):	Admission: to a Postgraduate Spatial Science program.
Directed study and research. GIScience and cartographic visualisation: data sources. Development and management of a cartographic database. Cartographic modelling and data analysis: spatial, temporal and thematic comparisons. Terrain visualisation. Scientific visualisation. The use of colour in scientific visualisation. Animated cartography: temporal and non-temporal animations. Dynamic variables. Visualisation in GIS. Hypermaps. Rendering systems for interactive scientific visualisation.