Over the last few decades, geospatial technologies have evolved and infiltrated into an exponential number of organizations’ and people’s lives to the point where they are ubiquitous. Along with this great expansion of use comes an even greater need to access the right data and to manage and utilize it appropriately for each unique project.
This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of dealing with spatial data and data management principles. We will explore key topics related to working with spatial data including data discovery, data dissemination and data use. Along with these topics comes the need to discuss ethics of data use, data standards and guidelines, data format and translation, metadata as well as general data management and maintenance principles.
- Teacher: Bruno-Charles Busseau