MSc Environmental Management and Earth Observation

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University of Nottingham

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• Objectives
  Through an intensive practical and theoretical programme, we aim to develop your expertise and depth of understanding, and to formalise any practical experience in the areas of environmental management and earth observation.
  
  Data collection and integration are fundamental to environmental management; technological advances enable us to gather an increasing amount of information from terrestrial measurements, airborne sensors and satellite based systems. Some techniques enable continuous monitoring and some allow rapid processing from regular data gathering campaigns. Underpinning all of this is the need for an understanding of co-ordinate systems, positioning techniques and geographical information systems.
  
  The course is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (ICES) and we are an Approved Learning Provider for the HM Forces Enhanced Learning Credit Scheme, which applies to this course.
• Entry requirements
  This course is aimed at geography and science graduates, industrial practitioners, military and government personnel.
• Academic title
  MSc Environmental Management and Earth Observation
• Course description
  Key facts
  
  -The Institute, formerly known as the Nottingham Surveying Group, has been active for almost 40 years, covering major advances in terrestrial, air and spaceborne image acquisition systems, inertial navigation systems and the development of satellite-based systems such as Transit, GPS and GLONASS, EGNOS and Galileo.
  -The Institute has excellent facilities for teaching and research with lecturers drawn from a group of highly respected academics and external experts. We work closely with industrial partners and government agencies and this provides excellent opportunities for our graduates to find employment with high profile organisations
  
  Course Content
  
  Core modules are:
  
  -Foundations of Environmental Management 
  -Approaches to Environmental Management
  -Fundamentals of Geographical Information Science
  -Geospatial Engineering Parts 1 and 2
  -The Environment Business
  -Image Processing for Remote Sensing
  -Environmental Remote Sensing
  -Mapping and Data Collection for GIS
  -Managing Geospatial Information
  -Mobile and Field GIS
  
  Once you have completed the core and optional modules, you will undertake a supervised dissertation over 3 months, which will give you a great deal of practical experience in data acquisition, processing and analysis. This independent research aims to stimulate creative thinking and improve your powers of critical analysis.
  
  Course Structure
  
  This MSc can only be taken full-time in one year.
  
  Teaching is organised in semester long modules, comprising lectures, seminars, practical sessions and tutorial work.
  
  Modules are assessed through coursework and examination.
  
  Course credits total 180; 120 for the taught modules and 60 for the dissertation.
  
  This course can be taken as a Postgraduate Diploma, which is the same as the MSc above but without the dissertation.
  

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