10435 (v.2) Digital Cartography 682
| 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.
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| 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. |