Beskrivelse
Spatial data is ubiquitous and indispensable to a plethora of sustainability engineering research and application areas. Such spatial data-dependent sustainability engineering application areas include, for example, resource and waste management, energy system planning, urban and construction planning, climate change adaptation and mitigation, robotic and drone routing, agricultural crop and biomass planning, land-use change detection, supply chain and value chain management, product marketing and business analysis, and broader poverty alleviation socio-economic development issues. Thus, spatial data and its management, visualization, and analysis are an integral part of the sustainability engineering paradigm.This Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Engineering Sustainability course aims exactly to provide students such focused learning and training to utilizing practical GIS tools to solve spatial data-dependent sustainability engineering problems.
The GIS for Engineering Sustainability course will consist of four parts:
•introduction to the theory of spatial data structures, projection and coordinate systems, spatial analysis, geoprocessing, quality checks, spatial and attribute queries, and GIS;
•hands-on examples for spatial data collection, cleaning, organization, georeferencing, analysis, and visualization using QGIS software;
•examples of GIS utilization in sustainable engineering projects;
•application of GIS knowledge on a real-world sustainability engineering project.