Geography

Global Environmental Change

Module code: 003GS
Level 6
30 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Practical, Seminar, Fieldwork
Assessment modes: Report, Coursework

Environmental change has become a central global issue with serious implications for the social and natural world. There is a need to monitor the earth's signs of change, especially where ground information is spatially limited, filled with error, or unavailable. Remote sensing datasets are vital in monitoring local, regional and global changes.

On this module, you'll use remote-sensing datasets to answer fundamental questions about our changing planet. This will involve:

• understanding the nature of remote sensing
• gaining practical knowledge in using and manipulating big datasets
• linking environmental change to sustainability and policy.

Module learning outcomes

• Understanding differing remote sensing technologies and data characteristics.
• Understand how remote sensing can be used to answer scientific questions on the environment and climate change.
• Prepare and analyse digital data using ArcGIS and Matlab.
• Analyse and evaluate current debates in remote sensing science.