Course Overview

The course is designed for the Second year students of Urban and Rural Planning Discipline. This course will be conducted simultaneously with its theoretical counterpart URP 2261. Students of this course are expected to apply the acquired theoretical knowledge from URP 2261.

Course Objectives

The learning objectives of this course are as follows:

·       Develop capability of different kinds of problem solving using different kinds of software

·       Student will be able to explain and explore data structures of both raster and vector data

·       They will learn to digitise data from scanned images after georeferencing the image, creating manuscript and defining projection parameters

·       Students will be able to edit the digitized database and correct the errors

·       They will show capability to use different tools to solve GIS related problems

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

Students completing this class will have practical experience of application of the theories that they will learn in URP 2261 course.  By the end of this course, the student will be able to:

·       Accomplish georeference of scanned maps;

·       Digitise and edit errors;

·       Project maps;

·       Develop surface based on some sample points;

·       Use the tools available within different GIS software;

·       Construct professional map layout for printing;

·       Apply multi-criteria analysis (MCA) for different problems using both vector and raster data;

·       Use GIS for network data.