GIS & Remote Sensing in Public Health
Spring 2004, 3 Units, Tu/Th 9:30 - 11:00, 124 Mulford Hall
Instructors: Edmund Seto (717 University Hall, 2-9219, seto@uclink.berkeley.edu), Ruiliang Pu (130 Mulford Hall, 2-1351, rpu@nature.berkeley.edu)
The goal of this course is to familiarize students with applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) in Public Health. Selected case studies will be presented in order to highlight principles, methods, and techniques. 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, environmental health and justice. Hands-on exercises and a project will provide practical experience in the use of GIS and RS software tools and methods for spatial analysis. This course is open to all UCB graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students.
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