gistt: a geographic information systems teaching tool
- 1 July 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Geographical Information Science
- Vol. 6 (4) , 291-298
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02693799208901913
Abstract
The Geography Department of the University of Auckland has offered a senior level undergraduate course in geographical information systems (GIS) since 1985. The course focuses on providing a good conceptual and practical introduction to GIS as well as teaching spatial analysis within the GIS framework, and is supported by a laboratory programme using both public domain and commercial software. This paper reports a set of programmes developed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of vector and raster data structures, and to allow them to experiment with procedures for line generalization.Keywords
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