Section: Geospatial approaches across disciplines and industries | Digital Earth Basics | Z_GIS

Section: Geospatial approaches across disciplines and industries | Digital Earth Basics | Z_GIS

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General
- Introduction Forum
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- Learning Objectives (module level)
  
  explain and communicate the advantages of an explicit geospatial approach to monitoring, understanding and managing real world issues across domains
  
  apply knowledge about Earth's dimensions, shape models and global measurements to practical questions
  
  understand and select appropriate spatial reference systems according to scale, context and application
  
  design the collection and selection of geospatial data in support of specific use cases and workflows
  
  communicate geospatial data through shared visual interfaces using web technologies

Geospatial approaches across disciplines and industries

Geospatial approaches across disciplines and industries
- Orientation video
- Learning objectives:
  
  appreciate the scope of application domains supported with a 'Digital Earth' approach
  
  understand, communicate and explain the role of geospatial methods and technologies for solving problems in select fields
  
  recognize and identify the contributions of Digital Earth technologies like remote, in-situ and mobile sensing, global positioning, geovisualisation etc to the design of workflows supporting critical decisions
- Section overview:
- The ArcGIS Book URL
  
  10 Big Ideas about Applying The Science of Where
- Geospatial World URL
  
  Together with GW Prime, this provides current insights into the practice of Geoinformatics across multiple domains.
- Esri Academy: ArcGIS Online Basics URL
  
  Getting started with hands-on online GIS ...
- Liu, Z., Foresman, T., van Genderen, J., Wang, L. (2020). Understanding Digital Earth. In: Guo, H., Goodchild, M.F., Annoni, A. (eds) Manual of Digital Earth. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9915-3_1 File
  
  [Optional] Book chapter for background reading if you want to explore the background of the 'Digital Earth' vision.
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  Tasks to complete this section
- Assessment: Page
  
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