Agriculture and Food Security
This course focuses on GIS, GPS, and remote sensing principles in agriculture applications. Emphasis is placed on hands-on experience working with local producers and agronomic consultants. Students will be engaged in collecting and acquiring data, developing spatial databases, analyzing data, and communicating findings. Students will also explore agriculture as a landscape complex, examine regulatory requirements, and identify conservation opportunities.
Forest Management
The Forest Management course aims to integrate ecological, historical, social, political and economic factors affecting forest management. In practical and field work the course studies the management of one forest in detail, and reviews different aspects of forest management else-where in the world by reference to specific topics and case studies especially in GIS and Remote Sensing Perspective.
Soil Geomorphology and Classifications
This course intends to explore fundamentals of soil genesis, characteristics and classifications. Soil is a resource for almost every land use activity. This course also discusses the Soil Information System (SIS), which is a special kind of geo-information system dedicated to the production of, among others, relevant information about soil types, soil properties, soil erosion and land degradation hazards and soil constraints and opportunities for various rural, semi-urban, and urban land uses
Hydrology and Water Resources
This course intends to give deep insight about hydrologic principles and water management system that can be applied to a wide range of water industry problems. The integrated approach used in this course is beneficial to understand the complex details of today's water resource systems and to deal with the numerous economic, legal, and regulatory factors of importance to both the public and private sectors. A simple GIS based exercise will be required to introduce the GI technology in hydrology and water resources.
Conservation of Biodiversity
The objective of this course is to familiarize the students with the concept of biodiversity conservation, sustainable development and how can conservation plans be transformed into action at global, regional, country and local level. The use of RS & GIS/GPS with specific examples from around the world will be discussed as well.
Management of Energy Resources
This course provides the understanding of renewable, non-renewable, conventional and alternate energy resources and their management issues. Recent days Remote Sensing and GIS have become essential for exploration, monitoring and overall management. This course also covers key concepts and applications of Geo-Information Technologies, which is being used in energy resource management.
Management of Mineral Resources
This course aims on GIS, GPS, and remote sensing applications in Mineral Resources Management. Mine surveys provide a starting point and then complete data sets with all related information is to be created for inventory and analysis of mineral resources., which is very much spatial in nature. Furthermore the environmental impacts of mine waste dumps and the improvement of the mine safety for the mining industry are also fields, where GIS could give a significant support. Students will be engaged in collecting and acquiring data, developing spatial databases, analyzing data, and communicating findings. Students will also explore Mineral resources; examine their extent and depletion stage and specifically the economic potentials and available opportunities for sustainable mining operations.
Coastal Zone Management
Geographical Information Systems are increasingly being used to analyze and manage marine and coastal zones. They provide a powerful set of tools for use in coastal zone supervision. This course has been designed to provide the basic understanding of Coastal Management as well as know how of recent developments and specific applications that can be used to help marine scientists and conservationists enhance their skills. The techniques include RS & GIS applications in a coastal setting, including shoreline mapping, ship borne data collection techniques, coastal decision making with GIS and more.
Natural Hazards and Disaster Management
While natural hazards cannot be prevented, their human impacts can be greatly reduced through advance action that mitigates risks and reduces vulnerability. This course focuses primarily on the understanding of hazards, disasters, vulnerability assessment and the potential uses of GIT for natural disaster management in all the three phases, i.e. pre-disaster, disaster, and post-disaster with examples from globe and particularly Pakistan .
Environmental Pollution
This course targets the development of basic understanding about the pollutants, contaminants, waste and the dispersion of different chemicals in the environment based on anthropogenic activities. The emphasis of this course is on the pollution abatement techniques and the role of GIS and Remote Sensing to identify the pollution sources, dispersion and evaluation of the environmental risks associated with the persistence of pollutants in the environment.
Environmental Impact Assessment
This course provides a specific introduction towards Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and techniques to enhance the capability and skills of participants to plan conduct and review the EIAs of development projects. The guidelines for planning and designing impact assessment studies and selection of parameters for establishing baselines are the core component of the course. The participants will also explore the EIA case studies for development projects in the light of Pakistan 's Scenario
Environmental Decisions and Conflict Resolution
This course explores the causes of conflicts involving environmental concerns, without presuming that environmental disputes are necessarily a cause of conflict. The aim of the course is to explore theories of conflict and cooperation from various disciplinary perspectives and focus on the practice of conflict resolution and various approaches to resolving conflicts and their relative applicability in different parts of the world.
Disease Ecology
The major goal of this course is to introduce students to geographical approaches to health and disease, particularly within the setting of human-environment interactions. This course covers many specific diseases; each is prototypical of one or more aspects of environmental equilibrium and disequilibrium.
Climatology
This course provides an understanding about the study of climatology. This course examines the processes which underlie the behavior of the atmosphere close to the surface; specifically the transfer of heat, mass and momentum and how these modify the weather in short and climate in long terms.
Land use Planning and Management
The aim of the courses is to provide the basics of land evaluation and land use planning methods using remote sensing and GIS. This course will improve the institutional capacity of organizations dealing with urban management. Through the courses, participants will be able to analyze land use planning, administration and infrastructure processes, and develop solutions to problems encountered in areas such as settlement upgrading, land supply and administration, and infrastructure development. Their new academic and technical skills will enable participants to contribute to improving these processes and will enhance their competence in decision making and the appropriate use of geo-information science and earth observation.
Urban Planning
Urban areas in developing countries are confronted by significant problems related to the provision of serviced land, shelter, social facilities and the maintenance of an adequate living environment. The search for appropriate instruments to tackle these issues requires a thorough understanding of the problem environment and recognizes the need for integrated approaches. The course investigates information requirements across urban sectors, some analytical requirements and explores how GIS and RS tools can be applied in problem solving. Students will get the opportunity to apply the knowledge in a problem oriented setting. The course is built around actual problems from city's development organizations. Students are expected to deepen their understanding of the application of GIS and RS in urban management and to build confidence for independent work in their future research work. Excursion to local urban management authorities will be arranged to understand their requirements and expected solutions.
Infrastructure and Transport Planning
This course deals with both the process and techniques of transportation planning, with emphasis on utilization of Geographical Information System. Assuming basic knowledge of GIS, the students will be taught scientific principles from capturing to analyzing digital geographic information about transportation infrastructure and systems; intelligent transportation systems, environmental and hazards analysis, and logistics.
E-Governance
This course explores scenarios for the use of information and communications technologies to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability of government.
Planning and Management of Housing
The course will examine housing needs of the region's population. The intent is to use GIS to map and analyze the elements of the housing accessibility issues for of the region. As an application course the major focus will be applying GIS methods to current planning problems with the aim of preparing a professional product in a workshop setting. One third of the course reviews and extends core principles of geographic analysis and modeling as expressed in GIS technology. Two thirds of the course will be devoted to collaborative teamwork to define structure, analyze, and present the resolution of planning problems posed by a “client”. They are concerned with housing, health services, and accessibility to services essential for persons to remain home and to stay active and productive.
Poverty Alleviation
For a developing country like Pakistan , there is a strong need to utilize the powers of Geo-Information Technologies in the Poverty Alleviation Policies, Plans and Projects leading to socio-economic development of the country through better decision-making and optimum utilization of resources. This course has been specially designed for the social scientists as well the developers to understand between development, poverty and the application of existing innovative technologies in poverty mapping, analysis, monitoring and alleviation.
Tourism Development
Tourism is now the world's largest industry and for many countries like Pakistan , attracting foreign exchange through tourism development is an important component of the local economy. However, experience around the world has shown that achieving all desired goals from tourism development is not easy. This course provides students with the opportunity to begin to understand why and how achieving sustainable development of tourism is such a challenge to communities around the world.
Education and Health Services
This course provides broad overview of education and health services for community. This course also gives an understanding about geoinformatics is being used in educational infrastructure demand, higher educational institutes and industry lesion, tracking of environmental diseases, Site selection of new hospitals and clinics based on demand and demographic factors, monitoring toxic spills to protect the health of nearby residents, mapping of demand for future nursing home/orphanages facilities, and marketing for pharmaceuticals.
Business and Marketing
This course involves the use of GIS and desktop mapping technology, as well as supporting Database Management Systems (DBMS), in any of the business activities like Customer Profiling, Risk assessment, Facility Planning and Management, Market Segmentation, Sales Territory Analysis etc
Land Information System
The course will examine Cadastral information system which is a parcel-based land information system that manages all data that is directly or indirectly related to parcels or properties and their legal boundaries. Cadastral database provides parcel based information with large scale and highly accurate geospatial data.
Utilities and services Management
The basic aim of this course is to understand and model the linear urban structures such as road network, pipeline, communication network, river system, rail roads, irrigation etc. However, second part of the course provides in depth knowledge about community services with especial emphasis on emergency response system.
Geodesy
This course targets the development of skills and concepts related to the computer-based handling of spatial data and geographic information. A major emphasis will be on the development of student's ability to think and reason critically about geographic information and understanding the importance of geospatial data in the production of information at the global, national and local scale in a variety of contexts.
Corporate GIS
Geographic Information System has become an integrated part of many organizations dealing with asset management, distribution networks, customer management, target marketing and decision making. This course gives not only introduction to fundamentals of enterprise structure but also provides an integrated approach for application of GIS in corporate environment.
Web GIS
This course covers the basic components of GIS for the internet. Studies include network environments and network communications models. Students look at technological evolutions of web mapping (e.g., static map publishing, interactive maps, and OpenGIS). Other topics include Geographic Markup Language (GML), XML, SVG, Google Web API, ArcIMS Customization and Commercial Web Mapping programs. Students are required to accomplish a complete Web GIS Project.
GIS Project Management
This course attempts to cover important aspects of different types of project including development and business aspects. The course covers various topics starting from basic concepts and problems relating to GIS projects design, development, management, Project Management Information System (PMIS), Project Integration Management, GIS Project Management Case Studies and implementation.
Geostatistics
Geostatistics is the name commonly associated with both the techniques utilized and the problems/objectives arising out of applications in the earth sciences where earth sciences is interpreted in a broad sense (including but not limited to geosciences, hydrology, soil sciences, mining engineering, environmental monitoring and assessment, atmospheric sciences). In general the topics are oriented to the analysis of spatially located data and in particular the estimation of values of the variable or variables of interest (for example ore grades, pollutant concentrations, hydrologic parameters) at an unsampled point or the average over an area or volume using data at a discrete number of (possibly) irregularly spaced points. The course will emphasize applying the methods and software for the analysis of a specific data set as well as becoming familiar with the literature.
Spatial Decision Support System
This course aims to provide essentials of Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS) concepts, skills needed to build and implement SDSS, and hands-on experience with decision support software tools. Additional types of systems covered: Executive Information Systems (EIS), Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS), and Expert Systems (ES).
GIS in Telecommunication
This course explores the application of GIS technology in the Telecommunication industry. With the help of GIS technology, the telecommunication professionals integrate location based data into analysis and management processes in network planning and operations, marketing and sales. Most telephone companies across the nation utilize GIS in wireless and market analysis applications. Through case studies and hands-on lab exercises, students will explore the application of GIS in the telecommunication industry.
GIS in Defense
The course will include network analysis, 3D modelling, temporal analysis, site selection, least cost path analysis, web publishing of GIS maps and data, complex spatial analysis and the collection of data using GIS. The course will involve the use of ESRI ArcGIS within a defence environment, with both taught and practical components. All practical exercises will be based on a defense scenarios.
Special Topics in GIS
This course focuses on providing the knowledge and experience necessary to conduct GIS based research at the post graduate level and/or to develop GIS based applied projects in natural resource management; environmental management; urban and regional planning; socioeconomic and infrastructure development; and geomatics.
Special Topics in Remote Sensing
Special topics in Remote Sensing focuses on providing the knowledge and experience necessary to conduct remote sensing research at the post graduate level.
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