GEOG 5190 - Medical Geography

Meets with GEOG 6190. This course covers applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing in public health. Topics include making effective disease surveillance maps, color theory and visualization, global positioning system (GPS), remote sensing data acquisition, visualization, classification, and accuracy assessment. Relevant studies will be presented for students interested in the link between ecology and disease, infectious disease control, cancer cluster detection, enviromental health and justice. Selected case studies will be presented in order to highlight principles, methods, and techniques.