Introduction to geographical information systems (GIS) and science; coordinate systems used in the Lambert, Mercator, Transverse Mercator, and UTM map projections; vector and raster data, data structures and topological relationships; data modeling and managing and querying data in databases; vector and raster data exploration, analysis and processing; cartographic design principles, presentations, thematic maps and map generalization; geographic visualization and graphic communications; introduction to spatial modeling and analysis; network and 3D representation and analysis; data quality, spatial data integration, metadata and standardization issues; web GIS, mapping services and geospatial information dissemination; GIS implementation and organizational issues. Lect: 3 hrs./Lab: 2 hrs. Corequisite: CVL 650, Prerequisite: CVL 323 Course Weight: 1.00 Billing Units: 1
