Geog483: Problem-solving with GIS Spring 2 2023

Quick Facts about GEOG 483

  • Instructor: Michelle Zeiders
  • Course Structure: An average of 12 hours per week for 10 weeks. Your workload may be more or less, depending on your prior experience with computing in general, and with GIS in particular.
  • Overview: GEOG 483 is the second in a series of four courses that leads to Penn State’s Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems (the traditional track)and counts toward the Master of GIS.  These lessons will cover vector and raster analysis, attribute and spatial queries, joins and links, buffers, address geocoding, cartographic design, thematic mapping, surface interpolation, and much more. There will be five projects to complete, graded discussions, and a final project. Lessons are project-based and provide links to key concepts.
Author(s) and/or Instructor(s): Beth King, John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University; Michelle Zeiders, John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University.