Summer 2017, Section 001

Credits

Schedule Number 3152

Instructors: BAXTER, RYAN

Important Dates

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Remarks

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Geography 865 is an elective course in the Penn State Professional Masters in Geographic Information Systems. This course teaches students to use cloud/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 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 planning and creating a working cloud/server GIS project, including public presentation of results. Both commercial (ArcGIS for Server) and open source (GeoServer) software packages are explored.

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Materials

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Required Materials

  • Edition:
  • Author: Rosenberg, J., Mateos, A.
  • ISBN: 9781935182528
  • Publisher: Manning Publications Co.
  • Source: BNC

Technical Requirements

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Software Requirements

Requires: Software will be provided by the instructor

Note

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