Our Digital Planet: Crowdsourcing and the Cloud

Catalog description

Overview of geospatial technologies including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), remote sensing; geospatial technology applications in government, business, research; public participation in activities such as citizen science and crowdsourcing; societal implications of the digital Earth, including issues such as privacy, social justice and equity, data quality, and surveillance. This course is the same as AMST 3501.