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Geographical Information Science

Why study GIS at Nottingham?

  • Established in 1989, course content is reviewed annually by industrial partners
  • High quality research-led teaching in GIS, remote sensing, Geocomputation and Visualisation
  • Funding available includes Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) studentships.
  • Recognised by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
  • Involved in two HEFCE-funded Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning; SPLINT (SPatial Literacy IN Teaching) and the Visual Learning Lab.
  • Course benefits directly from research expertise of the newly established Centre for Geospatial Science
  • Close collaboration with the Institute of Engineering, Surveying and Space Geodesy (IESSG), contributing to the course in the areas of satellite positioning technologies and photogrammetry.
  • State-of-the-art computing laboratory, 3D real-time stereo visualisation suite, mobile computing equipment pool, and software which includes ArcGIS, Visual Basic, Intergraph and Oracle.

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