GEOG 6010 - Geocomputation

The increasing volume and complexity of available digital geographic data overwhelms traditional analytical modeling methods. Alternatively, we can exploit the increasing power of computational environments to analyze geographic phenomena with a minimum of simplifying assumptions. This course is a high-level introduction to the use of computational intelligence methods for exploring, analyzing, modeling and simulating geographic phenomena. Techniques discussed include heuristic search in spatial optimization, pattern recognition and machine learning techniques and simulating complex spatio-temporal systems.