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Course Name	Turkish	Ekolojide Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemeleri
	English	GIS in Ecology
Course Code	GIT 521E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Çiğdem Göksel
Course Objectives		1. To provide the awareness for natural resource management, monitoring and conservation. 2. To explain the possibilities of remote sensing techniques andGIS for natural resource management. 3. To give an ability to work with different disciplines for natural resource management and conservation. 4. To provide the awareness of sustainable natural resource management and to give an ability for effective projects design and application to solve the natural resource management problems.
Course Description		What is natural resource management and why it is important? The way that follow to derive information from data, and the possibilities of remote sensing to derive thematic information for natural resource management; Forest, agriculture, water and wetlands, epidemiology, coastal zone, urban, biodiversity and wildlife studies by using remote sensing and GIS. The importance of ground truth data determination and selected methods. Application examples.
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Other References		1 Ebooks-Perpetual GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Biogeography and Ecology field: Millington, Andrew C. editorBoston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2001 2 Spatial uncertainty in ecology : implications for remote sensing and GIS applications field: New York : Springer, c2001 Remote Sensing and Modeling Advances in Coastal and Marine Resources field: Finkl, Charles W. editorCham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014

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