Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h + 30.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Van Oost Kristof;
Language
French
Main themes
Lectures : Principals of different techniques and data treatment
Practical work : Non residential fieldwork
Exercises in data treatment
Outline
1 Techniques in cartography : surveying, the use of a GPS, construction of Digital Terrain Models
2 Application of cartography for representing the state of natural resources (intensity of soil erosion, spatial varion of organic matter)
3 Continuous measurement of environmental parameters using dataloggers
4 Field validation of classification of satellite images
5 Questionnaire design and testing
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1 | Acquiring the most important fieldwork techniques in geography Preparing the students for the acquisition of data for their thesi projects |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Faculty or entity
GEOG
