GEOG 7

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

Geography · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

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Designed for freshmen/sophomores. Introduction to fundamental principles and concepts necessary to carry out sound geographic analysis with geographic information systems (GIS). Reinforcement of key issues in GIS, such as geographic coordinate systems, map projections, spatial analysis, and visualization of spatial data. Laboratory exercises use database query, manipulation, and spatial analysis to address real-world problems.

P/NP or letter grading.

Requisites

UCLA lists no requisites for this course.

Requires

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GEOG 7

GEOG 180Cartography
GEOG 181AIntermediate Geographic Information Systems
- GEOG 181BAdvanced Geographic Information Systems
- GEOG 181CGeographic Information Systems Programming and Development
GEOG 182AIntroduction to Remote Sensing
- GEOG 182BRemote Sensing: Digital Image Processing and Analysis
- GEOG 182CAdvanced Remote Sensing
- GEOG 185Field Methods in Physical Geography

3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 8 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.