GIT 509E - GIS Programming

Course Objectives

- To emphasize the importance of programming and automation in GIS.
- To teach programming principles for spatial data analysis and visualization.
- To provide hands-on experience in Python-based GIS workflows.
- To enable students to process large datasets using open-source geospatial libraries.

Course Description

This course introduces programming concepts, data models, and software customization in GIS. Using Python, students perform data processing, analysis, visualization, and automation with vector and raster data. Emphasis is placed on open-source tools such as GeoPandas, Rasterio, and Google Earth Engine through practical exercises on real-world datasets.