Inteligência Geográfica na Gestão do Solo
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Students should be able to understand, interpret, describe and transmit, in an appropriated technical language general information about geographic information technologies and all type of capabilities in land management.
Contents
Cartography Principles.
The Soil and the Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing and GPS.
Mapping: i) Soil; ii) Soil Land Use Capability; iii) Soil Land use, iv) Soil Apparent Electrical conductivity.
Preparation, interpretation and use.
Teaching Methods
Remote work: Introduction to the fundamental theoretical concepts through made available resources, in Moodle (lessons, several texts, PowerPoint presentations, Internet pages, etc). Students work will be guided to reach specific objectives. They will also develop collaborative work in Moodle.
Work in classroom: The practical competences will be acquired in the classroom. Will be given to the students individual practical work at home.
Assessment
Realization of theoretical and / or practical work, presentation and discussion.
Recommended Reading
-El-Rabbany, Ahmed (2002, 2006);Introduction to GPS: The Global Positioning System. Artech House.
-Tomlinson, Roger (2003, 2005); Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers. ESRI
- Schowengerdt, Robert A. (1997); Remote Sensing. Models and Methods for Image Processing. Academic Press
