Bachelor of Arts (Honours) or Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Geographic Information Science (EO)

Program Description

Geographic information science studies spatial data and advances methods for their production, computational analysis, visualization, and theorization across a number of application domains in both human and physical environments, including cities, wildlands and protected areas, marine environments, forests, and hydrological systems.

GIScience methodologies represent a set of approaches for asking and answering geographical questions in ways that emphasize relationships between digitally encoded spatial phenomena (for example, relationships between urban inequality and disease incidence), processes (for instance, the effects of the urban built environment on surface temperatures), patterns (such as tracking the movement of wildlife), and modelling different scenarios in data intensive environments (including flows of resources across networks, such as a public transit system or a river). GIScience research encompasses remote sensing, geographic information systems, geovisualization and digital mapping, geocomputation, spatial and spatial-temporal analysis, and the myriad societal implications of participating technologies and attendant praxes.