Environmental Modelling and Spatial Simulation

Graduate

The modelling process; integrating environmental models and GIS; spatial heterogeneity and representative areal units; measurement scales vs. process scales; sensitivity and uncertainty analysis; model complexity; effects of input data quality; simulation model experiments; technical and conceptual limits of environmental modelling. Students will complete a small research project. (Prerequisite: ESCI- 8710, or consent of instructor.) (3 seminar hours a week, plus project.)