Landscape Monitoring & Mapping
Programme Structure
The Postgraduate Diploma is composed of 2 semesters (8 months) of taught courses. The MSc requires a further 4 months on an applied project. It is also possible to study part-time over 2 or 3 years, or for those with appropriate qualifications to attend individual courses. Those with existing background in certain areas may substitute semester 1 courses with Honours options from Geography or Earth Science, or other Geomatics MSc courses.
Programme Outline
| Course | Credits | Taught by |
|---|---|---|
Semester 1 |
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| Fundamentals of Geomatics |
10 | Geomatics |
| Land survey principles and applications |
20 | Geomatics |
| Rates of Landscape Change |
10 | Earth Systems Group |
| Principles of GIS |
10 | Geomatics |
| Topographic Mapping from land, air and space |
10 | Geomatics |
Semester 2 |
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| Processes of Landscape Change |
20 | Earth Systems Group |
| Geodesy and GNSS |
10 | Geomatics |
| Research and Professional Issues | 10 | Geomatics and External |
| Space Geodesy and deformation mapping/Photogrammetry |
10 | Geomatics |
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Topics in Geomatics - choose 2 from: |
10 | Geomatics, Earth Systems Group and external |
Summer |
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| MSc Project, with topic relaed to landscape monitoring and mapping |
60 | supervised by Earth Systems Group and Geomatics staff |
The Postgraduate Diploma is composed of 2 semesters (8 months) of taught courses. The MSc requires a further 4 months on an applied project. It is also possible to study part-time over 2 or 3 years, or for those with appropriate qualifications to attend individual courses.
Programme Outline
| Course | Credits | Taught by |
|---|---|---|
Semester 1 |
||
| Fundamentals of Geomatics |
10 | Geomatics |
| Land survey principles and applications |
20 | Geomatics |
| Rates of Landscape Change |
10 | Earth Systems Group |
| Principles of GIS |
10 | Geomatics |
| Topographic Mapping from land, air and space |
10 | Geomatics |
Semester 2 |
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| Statistical mapping techniques | 10 | GES |
| Census and population mapping | 10 | GES |
| Social Science Statistics 2; or Internet and Mobile GIS and Further topics in Geomatics |
20 10 10 |
Urban Studies GES GES |
| Research and Professional Issues | 10 | GES |
| Topics in Geomatics (NSDI and Editing in GIS | 10 | GES |
Summer |
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| MSc Project in applied population mapping | 60 |