GIS Intro

The course is structured into 8 parts:
- Introduction to GIS
- Projection and Coordinate Systems
- Visualisation
- Vector Data Structure
- Databases
- Vector Data Analysis
- Raster Data Structure
- Raster Data Analyses

When finishing this course, a student will have a basic understanding of
- how geographical data are stored
- operations that are suitable to solve practical GIS problems
- needed data structures for geographical data
- the possibilities in GIS analysis
- general principles for presentation on maps
 
 and have knowledge about
- handling maps and attributes
- the principles for digitising and editing og geographical data
- import and export of data
- basic GIS analysis

The course is conducted as net based learning. This implies that all communication between tutor and student takes place in a learning management system and lectures and guidance will be made available here.

For full-time students there will be offered weekly hours for guidance.
Learning material (text books, video lectures, assignment descriptions) is in English. Communication with students is conducted in Norwegian.

Compulsory assignments:
- 8 Exercises/groups of sub assessments submitted via Blackboard
- 3 of these excercises must be in English language.