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Introduction To Urban Geo

This document provides an introduction to the course "Introduction to Urban Geo-Informatics". The course will explore various geospatial technologies used to retrieve and analyze spatial data in urban environments, including remote sensing, GIS, GPS navigation systems, and underground mapping. Students will learn how these technologies help collect, analyze, and apply geographical data to shape the urban world and address issues in the urban environment. Key topics include the history and applications of remote sensing, GIS, GPS, and techniques for underground mapping, as well as how data analytics can support smart cities and decision making.

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Introduction To Urban Geo

This document provides an introduction to the course "Introduction to Urban Geo-Informatics". The course will explore various geospatial technologies used to retrieve and analyze spatial data in urban environments, including remote sensing, GIS, GPS navigation systems, and underground mapping. Students will learn how these technologies help collect, analyze, and apply geographical data to shape the urban world and address issues in the urban environment. Key topics include the history and applications of remote sensing, GIS, GPS, and techniques for underground mapping, as well as how data analytics can support smart cities and decision making.

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Introduction to Urban Geo-Informatics

About this course


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“Where does geographical data come from?”
“How do we monitor our environment?”
“How do we navigate with our phones?”
“What is happening beneath our feet?”

These are just some of the questions that crop up every so often as we wander around
the streets of our urban metropolises. Many of the technologies we used, many of the
decisions we made are based on spatial data, most of which are acquired from
Geospatial Technologies. This data and the interpretation of the data is known as “Geo-
Informatics”.

In this course, you will explore various technologies involved in Geo-Informatics, how
the technologies help us to retrieve spatial data, and more importantly how the
geographical data becomes the information used in decision making.

You will explore the fields of Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS),
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) such as GPS, and Underground Mapping.
Additionally, the concept of Smart City and the Urban Environment will be introduced to
you. From this, you will gain an understanding of how these technologies help us to
shape and understand the world that we are living in.

What you'll learn

 Issues surrounding the Urban Environment

 History and skills involved in the different Geospatial Technologies (Remote


Sensing, GIS, GNSS, Underground Mapping)

 Discover how Geospatial data is collected, analyzed and used to shape our world
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Course Syllabus
Skip Syllabus DescriptionWeek 1: The Urban Environment
Introduction to the Urban Environment and its issues.

Week 2: GIS
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS); its role and how data are
analysed inside a GIS, the applications of GIS, and how it is integrated into our lives.

Week 3: Remote Sensing


Introduction to Remote Sensing; its history and techniques, how data are acquired
through Remote Sensing technologies, and how they are processed.

Week 4: Underground Survey & Mapping


Introduction to methods for Underground Mapping and how to see the unseen.

Week 5: Navigational Systems


Introduction to how we position ourselves on Earth, how we navigate through our
surroundings, and the different Systems.

Week 6: Smart Cities


Introduction to what is a Smart City, where Big Data come from, and how we can use
Big Data to shape our world.

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