701-1674-00L Spatial Analysis, Modelling and Optimisation
Semester | Spring Semester 2018 |
Lecturers | M. A. M. Niederhuber, J. R. Breschan |
Periodicity | yearly recurring course |
Language of instruction | English |
Comment | Number of participants limited to 25. The waitinig list will be deleted on March 4th, 2018. Prerequisites: 701-0951-00L "GIS - Introduction into Geoinformation Science" in autum semester or comparable preparatory training. |
Abstract | Problems encountered in forest- and landscape management often have a spatial dimension. Methods and technics of geoinformation sciences GIS and/or optimization give support to identify good solutions. Students learn to conceptualize, implement and combine I) spatial analysis & modeling of geodata and, II) optimization techniques, based on theoretical inputs and practical work on small projects. |
Objective | - Conceptualize spatial problems and design a work flow from "data processing" through "advanced spatial analysis" to "presentation of results"; - Implement a specific workflow in standard GIS software, verify and validate procedures and results; - Conceptualize an optimization problem and specify a workflow and the tools to solve the problem; - Implement a specific optimization problem in standard software, verify the procedures and check the validity of results; - Process problem-specific spatial data, export them to standard exchange file formats, and import them into optimization- or analysis tools; - Conceptualize, implement and solve spatially-explicit optimization models by integrating spatial analysis with optimization techniques. |
Literature | Church RL, Murray AT (2009). Business Site Selection, Location Analysis, and GIS, Wiley, Hoboken [spatially-explicit optimization] Williams HP (1999). Model Building in Mathematical Programming. 4th edition, Wiley, Chichester [introduction to optimization techniques] |
Prerequisites / Notice | Knowledge and skills equal those of the course "GIST - Einführung in die räumliche Informationswissenschaften und Technologien" |