Quick Facts
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Instructors: Dr. Gregory Thomas and Dr. Carolynne Hultquist
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Course Structure: Five Lessons, 10 weeks in length, 15 hours per lesson, 2 credits.
- Prerequisite: GEOG 594A: Culminating Experiences in Geospatial Intelligence
Overview:
This seminar merges the concepts of the Geospatial Intelligence program and reinforces the standards of professionalism applicable to geospatial intelligence analysis in government and business. In this course, you will build upon your past coursework to identify and investigate a real-world problem using a GIS or remote sensing tool. Course goals are to evaluate and apply analytical methods and to recognize ethical and professional issues in the spatial domain.
You will demonstrate your ability to identify and investigate a real-world problem using a substantial amount of your past coursework. You must use GIS or a remote sensing tool to create evidence. This work may be completed as a team. To successfully complete GEOG 594B, students must communicate a high level of knowledge of the subject based on their thinking, organization, and technical analysis of the evidence.
Identifying a real-world problem is your first challenge. For students in the Geospatial Intelligence Option of the Homeland Security master's program, our perspective of homeland security follows an all-hazards approach and crosses both the public and the private sectors. While the US federal government's Department of Homeland Security is a driver of needs, significant analytic problems also exist at state and local levels, as well as internationally. In addition, a public-private partnership has made homeland security an important focus for the private sector in fields such as technology, finance, insurance, public health, and more.
GEOG 594B is the culminating experience for the Geospatial Intelligence Option of the Intercollege Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security program and the Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Intelligence Analytics.
About Your Instructors
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Want to join us? Students who register for this Penn State course gain access to assignments and instructor feedback and earn academic credit. For more information, visit Penn State's Online Geospatial Education Program website. Official course descriptions and curricular details can be reviewed in the University Bulletin.