Syllabus

By allowing researchers to integrate spatial dimensions into their analyses, digital mapping and GIS tools ultimately enhance our understanding of the phenomenon we are studying.

This course focuses on:

1. Creating quality maps using polygons, points or pixels
2. Discussing Coordinate Reference Systems (CRSs)
3. Creating your own spatial features
   1. Using existing GIS files
   2. Geo-coding
   3. Digitising your own maps: old maps or aerial / satellite images (QGIS)
4. Implementing spatial analysis: density (heat) maps, spatial correlation
5. Computing variables using geo-spatial information (geo-computation)
   1. Calculating distances
   2. Implementing spatial joins
   3. Computing zonal statistics

The course mostly relies on R but will also introduce QGIS.