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USING FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE TO TEACH UNIVERSITY GIS COURSES ONLINE: LESSONS LEARNED DURING A PANDEMIC
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| Zeitschriftentitel: | The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
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| In: | The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVI-4/W2-2021, 2021, S. 127-131 |
| Format: | E-Article |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Copernicus GmbH
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| Zusammenfassung: | <jats:p>Abstract. During the remote learning necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, university GIS students did not always have home access to the kinds of software and hardware that they would ordinarily get in their on-campus lab facilities. In this situation, the free and cross-platform nature of FOSS opened the door for some students to continue their GIS education uninterrupted. In this article, I describe how one university allowed students to choose FOSS such as QGIS, PostGIS, and GeoDa as alternatives to proprietary software in upper-division GIS coursework. These were used to teach techniques such as point pattern analysis, visibility analysis, hydrological modeling, proximity surfaces, LISA analysis, process modeling, open data access, and data summation. I share specific software tools, commands, and plugins used to apply these techniques in lab assignments. I discuss how these approaches can form a lasting part of the GIS curriculum beyond the pandemic, and how students can position these FOSS skills as they prepare for the GIS job market. </jats:p> |
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| Umfang: | 127-131 |
| ISSN: |
2194-9034
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| DOI: | 10.5194/isprs-archives-xlvi-4-w2-2021-127-2021 |