GEOG 6190 - GIS & Environmental Health

Meets with GEOG 5190. Graduate students should enroll in GEOG 6190 and will be held to higher standards and/or more work. This course covers applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing in public health. Topics include making effective disease surveillance maps, color theory and visualization, global positioning system (GPS), remote sensing data acquisition, visualization, classification, and accuracy assessment. Relevant studies will be presented for students interested in the link between ecology and disease, infectious disease control, cancer cluster detection, environmental health and justice. Selected case studies will be presented in order to highlight principles, methods, and techniques.