Frequency of lectures, practice and lab:
not mandatory but recommended
Teaching tools:
- Lecture notes (see e-learning web site: Moodle)
Type of Assessment
Exam modality:
report focused on GIS-based tool implementation, oral examination.
Course program
Course Contents (detailed program):
- Course introduction
- Elements of digital cartography.
- Map overlay and Tomlin operators. Base concepts for model implementation.
- GIS Open source: introduction to GRASS GIS software
- Elements of environmental appraisal
- Definition and quantification of Ecosystem Services. Payments for Ecosystem Services
- Multicriteria analysis, fuzzy logic and expert system in GIS (GRASS application)
- Fundamentals of Operational Research and GIS application.
- Spatial analysis applied to: biodiversity value; Recreation Opportunity Spectrum; ecological networks, analysis of demand/supply in forest bioenergy sector, hydrogeological services of forest, ecosystem services and disservices of urban green, renewable energies.
- GIS for risk management in forest sector
- New technologies for forest planning