Master's Degree on
Geomatics and Natural Resources Evaluation
Course Structure
The Course is
held yearly from November to June and is divided into two
modules:
- FIRST PART: a theoretical part which aims to provide each student with a common background. It lasts from November to February, and it consists of 344 hours, including lessons, practical laboratories and seminars.
- SECOND PART: a complete and interdisciplinary study case, going from February to June, including three weeks of fieldwork.
The timetable
envisages thirty hours from Monday to Friday and attendance is
compulsory.
Course Content
FIRST PART
A group of Basic Topics focusing on tools and technical aspects of Remote Sensing and GIS constitutes the following section:
- Elements of Information and Communication Technology
- Cartography
- Principles of Remote Sensing
- Image Processing
- Photointerpretation
- Geographical Information Systems
- Digital image processing
- Laboratory of Geomatics
Topics concerning applied Natural Resources Evaluation matters conclude the First Part:
- Climatology and Agrometeorology
- Climate Spatial Modelling
- Geology and Geomorphology
- Agriculture and Land use
- Land Cover and Vegetation Ecology
- Forests
- Soils
- Land Degradation Assessment
- Thematic Mapping
Practical laboratories complete the teaching lessons, allowing students to put into practice theoretical notions.
Some Seminars are organized to deepen on particular subjects, like, for example:
- Methodological aspects of natural resources evaluation
- Hydrological applications of Remote Sensing
- Agricultural Research for Development
- IAO Methodology: a Framework
Lectures timetable envisages 30 hours from Monday to Friday, during which the attendance is compulsory. Each Topic is verified with a multiple choice test at the end of the relative subject course.
The Master Course totally awards 60 academic credits (ECTS). It ends with an individual final thesis graded by an academy board.
SECOND PART
This is the real practical part of the Course. Groups of students are working in cooperation to yield a single final report, which shows different working phases and the final results of the Study Case. Starting from a collection of existing documents, they are involved together in the fieldwork data sample and, finally, in the following data analysis.
For further information see the stage section
The Course ends with a Public Closing Ceremony during which the participants present the results of the study case.
A poster section is also prepared to show different work steps and principle thematic maps produced within the study case. The complete GIS dataset, the cartographic outputs, the fieldwork database and the final report are stored in a soft copy on free DVD. Finally, an on-line version of the report is available on the IAO website in the form of a web-based hypertext.
For more information download the detailed program of 29th edition
(.pdf, 171 KB)
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