Geographic Information Systems

3 Credits - hours lecture, 3 hours lab

Provides a lecture-only format and master copies for overhead transparencies suitable for a wide variety of disciplines using introductions to GIS. Topics include GIS use in analysis and natural resource management decision making, basic geographical concepts and GIS, spatial databases, digital data sources, raster and vector models, "networks and 'fuzzy logic,'" and map analysis.

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Text: Course Packet available in bookstore, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon 
Curriculum produced by NCSR.

Curriculum produced by NCSR. Funding Provided by the National Science Foundation.






Updated January 2008.

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