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Geography 468 provides the geospatial information system professional an overview of systems analysis and design with emphasis on the concepts behind the process, including: business use case modeling, business object modeling, requirements definition, analysis and preliminary design, and, finally, detailed design. The concepts of the geospatial software and database development process are introduced and the current modeling techniques are addressed within the geospatial systems development paradigm. In a series of related activities, students learn about the methods, tools and the concepts of the systems development process to document a portion of a geospatial system with Unified Modeling Language (UML), the standard graphical notation for modeling application needs.

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GEOG 468

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Todd Bacastow

I am a Professor of Practice for Geospatial Intelligence in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and the founder and lead faculty of Penn State's Geospatial Intelligence program. Penn State's Geospatial Intelligence program is accredited by the United State Geospatial Intelligence Foundation and part of Penn State's award-winning portfolio of Online Geospatial Education programs that has served over 5,000 students since 1999.

My current research focuses on determining the optimal training and educational means to improve the sensemaking of the geospatial analyst working as part of an intelligence team. Sensemaking refers to the process by which humans are able to generate explanations for data that are otherwise sparse, noisy, and uncertain.