Course Units

Spatial Modelling Concepts

The approach to the topic of geographic information systems (GIS) seems unclear for beginners due to the multiple use of the term. It is therefore necessary to explain and define some terms, both from the everyday as well as from the established geographical usage.

Asking Questions

Asking questions and finding answers is the basis of scientific work. This includes an extensive repertoire of procedures and techniques. With regard to geoinformation science, it is of central importance to be able to abstract the real world in a comprehensible way, to depict it in corresponding data models and to derive reliable information from it.

Project 1: Touching the tree

Design and implementation of a single tree segmentation project based on LiDar data and aerial photographs

Project 2: Competition and Biodiversity

Design a second project aiming in the computation horizontal and vertical indices of structure and competition.

Spotlights

The spotlights will focus on conceptual as well as technical topics related to the general task of reaching out for the project goals.