Digital Tools for Environmental Problem-Solving

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Description: This course provides an introduction to some cool tools for environmental problem-solving. These tools mainly include the Global Positioning System (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), and remote sensing, also referred to as geospatial technologies. With a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, students will become familiar with the fundamentals of these cool tools, and their applications in the environment such as in public health, climate change, water resource, food security, disaster assessment and recovery, deforestation.