MSER 510 - Advanced GIS (3)

This course will deepen student’s skills learned in the intro GIS course and cover a range of advanced topics, such as detailed geospatial analysis, raster analysis and modeling, network analysis, Python automation, and resilience assessments. Students will become more familiar with data scale and data sources, learning how to select the best climate data for a project’s needs, and will be introduced to downscaled and gridded data. They
will gain hands-on experience working with GIS-based climate data to better understand future climate projections and scenarios. This course will also introduce climate and vulnerability assessments. Students will become familiar with the Steps to Resilience process, utilizing GIS tools and analyses to identify people and community assets most vulnerable to a changing climate, as well as how to quantify, visualize, and communicate
the concepts of exposure, adaptive capacity, vulnerability, and risk. Spring.