| Area: | Department of Spatial Sciences |
| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 5.0 |
| 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.
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| Syllabus: | 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. |
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| Unit Outcomes: | On completion of this unit students will have - Identified appropriate techniques for data management to support cartographic modeling and visualisation, the background required to develop and implement visualisation approaches for a range of spatial data, understood the dynamic variables involved in cartographic visualisation and be able to apply them to temporal and non-temporal animations. |
| Text and references listed above are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information. |
| Unit References: | No prescribed references. |
| Unit Texts: | No prescribed texts |
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| Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Laboratory/Practical 30%, Major project 50%, Seminar 20%. This is by grade/mark assessment. |
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | | |
