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 451-416 Automated Mapping

Credit Points

7.14

Coordinator

Professor Ian Williamson

Prerequisites

451-311 Environmental Visualisation

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

24 hours of lectures and 12 hours of practical work

Subject Description

This subject presents the computational geometry principles and algorithms used in GIS and computer mapping systems.

Display devices, scan conversion, registration of vector and raster data, line and polygon clipping, digital terrain modelling, cartographic generalisation, polygon and topology processing, geometric data and file structures.

Assessment

Not more than three hours of written examinations and tests and not more than the equivalent of 20 pages of written assignments and reports on practical work. The relative weighting of the assessment components will be published at the commencement of the subject



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