Geographical Sciences and technologies for environment and health

The students acquire methodological and applicative competences and abilities useful in different fields application to: build and analyse quantitative maps and land use maps, with particular attention to specific categories; edit points, lines and polygons and define buffer zones; georeferencing maps of different periods and scales; work with different basemaps. At the end of the course the student will be able to use GIS software for the representation and analysis of data through digital maps and elaborations that allow to overlap and compare different layers in order to support detailed and synthetic studies and to promote relational and geostatistical studies of the components that characterize a territory.