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Giscience: theory and concepts  

Description

Participants in this module can describe the highly dynamic nature of the evolving field of Geographic Information Science or GIScience in short. Students can work scientifically in the broader field of GIScience and communicate in an interdisciplinary manner with other fields based upon generic scientific as well as GIScience-specific skills and competencies. Students acquire competences both in GIScience thory including its epistemology and in Geoinformatics applications fields. They are able to use theory in application contexts. Geospatial technologies support a wide variety of uses in society. Students can evaluate technological and scientific trends and whether they may provide opportunity or threats for our society.

Delivery mode

Presential
English

Name

Giscience: theory and concepts
English

UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE

Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation

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