451-334 Environmental Visualisation & Mapping

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

451-205 Introduction to GIS and Remote Sensing or an equivalent subject.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Upon completion of this subject students should have developed an understanding of the principles and techniques associated with cartographic sciences and environmental visualisation.

Introduction to Cartographic reasoning, introduction to Thematic Cartography, mapping design and mapping assembly, collect of information (sources, generalisation, scales), graphic expression (visual variables), graphic treatment of data, discreteness (empirical, mathematical, statistical), cartographic representation (symbols, dots, flows, choropleth and isopleth). Mulit-variable cartography (quadrants: simple, regression, silhouette, taxonomic tree, scalograms, Bertin matrix). Introduction to analytical cartography (trend surfaces, spectral analysis, factor analysis, hierarchical classifications). Development and application of environmental visualisation. Technical aspects of visualisation, including image manipulation, three dimensional modelling and transformations, the geometry of perspective, hidden line algorithms, shading and rendering, colour, texture capture and mapping, ray tracing.

Assessment

One 3-hour written examination, plus assignments and practical exercise reports totaling not more than 40 pages. The relative weighting of the assessment components will be provided to students at the beginning of the subject.