Topics

Overview

• Spatial Data Science – GIScience – GIS – Geospatial
  • Geography and Technology!
  • Spatial Data Science vs GIS vs Geospatial?
  • Skills for becoming a Spatial Data Scientist, GIScientist, GIS Analyst
  • Careers in the Spatial Data Sciences, GIS and Earth Observation/UAV
  • So you want to become a Spatial Data Scientist?
  • getting started: Spatial Data Science, GIScientist…
  • The geospatial ecosystem: Software, Libraries and Data Platforms

Getting started

• GIScience – Spatial Data Science
  • Spatial data analysis: overview of the 6 function classes
  • Topology and Venn Diagrams
  • The geospatial ecosystem: Software, Libraries and Data Platforms
  • Geographic data files
  • Geographic information
  • Earth Observation Data or Satellite Data
  • Projections – flattening a round world
  • Interpolation methods for spatial data
  • Suitability Analysis

• Random topics
  • Are you feeling the heat?
  • Games for raising awareness of disaster-health outcomes
  • The return of the hummingbird
  • Bird migrations: 10,000km connecting Europe and Africa
  • Mapping genomic data

• Spatial analysis examples
  • Mapping mosquito vectored diseases: an integrated geographic data approach
  • Malaria: how is malaria risk changing in Africa?
  • Where are all of the world’s deserts?
  • Where are the rain forests located?
  • Biomes around the world
  • Temperatures and plants in the garden

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