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Quick Facts about GEOG 865
- Instructor: Ryan Baxter
- Course Structure: Online, 10-12 hours a week for 10 weeks
- Course Authors: Sterling Quinn, Ryan Baxter, and James O'Brien
Overview:
Theory and practice of cloud and server geographic information systems (GIS).
Geography 865 is an elective course in the Penn State online geospatial education programs. This course teaches students to use cloud and server GIS resources to solve problems for which geospatial data is an integral element. We will evaluate and implement systems using three cloud service models (infrastructure services, platform services, and software services). The course will contain both worked exercises and critical reading and writing for infrastructure, platform, and software service models.
The course will teach you to set up cloud services for creating maps, cloud services for managing spatial data, and cloud services for processing spatial data. This course will challenge you to exercise the critical thinking and technical skills needed to evaluate and develop successful cloud GIS projects. Assignments focus on helping students improve their ability to write about and execute cloud GIS projects. A semester-long project involves creating a working cloud GIS project, including public presentation of results.
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