Geospatial System Analysis and Design

Credit: GEOSPATIAL DATA: Progress Needed on Identifying Expenditures, Building and Utilizing a Data Infrastructure, and Reducing Duplicative Efforts, from the U.S. GAO report, 2015 is Public Domain

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Geospatial System Analysis and Design surveys the process of GIS design through critical reading/writing and collaborative discussion. Key topics in the course outline the broad range of current GIS systems, how they are designed and evaluated, and how emerging technologies may impact their design and implementation in the near future. In particular, students will develop a term-long project where they propose a realistic problem scenario that requires the skills and understanding required to effectively complete a geospatial system specification, design, and implementation. Students completing this course are able to develop a comprehensive system design plan that takes into account current technologies as well as emerging technology trends.

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GEOG 583

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Brandi Gaertner

Brandi Gaertner, assistant teaching professor of Spatial Data Science in the online Geospatial Education program, joined the Penn State faculty in 2021. Brandi is a climate change hydrologist and GIS analyst. Her research focus is on evaluating historical and future impacts of climate change on surface streamflow and climate variables such as precipitation and temperature. She also uses remote sensing techniques, such as Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), to study the impact of climate change on lengthened growing seasons, evapotranspiration, and hydrology. Prior to joining Penn State, Brandi was an assistant professor of Environmental Science at Alderson Broaddus University in Philippi, W.V.

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Anthony Robinson

Anthony Robinson is an associate professor of Geography and the director for Online Geospatial Education programs at Penn State. He coordinates faculty and staff to handle student affairs to ensure the long term sustainability and strength of Penn State's online geospatial education portfolio. He also serves as Assistant Director for the GeoVISTA Center in the Department of Geography. His research focuses on the science of interface and interaction design for geovisualization and geovisual analytics tools. He has developed interface design and usability assessment methods for integrating geographic visualization tools with work in epidemiology, crisis management, and educational domains.

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Alan MacEachren

Alan MacEachren was Director of the GeoVISTA Center from its formation in 1998 through 2020. GeoVISTA evolved over that time from a Center focused on geovisualization to a broad-based interdisciplinary geographical information science center conducting and coordinating innovative research in GIScience, covering a broad range of domains from spatial cognition, through formal geo-information representation, to spatial analysis, cartography and visual analytics.

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