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. |
Texts and references listed below are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Some units taught offshore are modified at selected locations. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information and approved offshore variations to unit information before finalising study and textbook purchases. |
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. |
Field of Education: | 31100 Geomatic Engineering (Narrow Grouping) | HECS Band (if applicable): | 2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: | Not Online | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | |
Area
External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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