ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 102 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 22 Interactive Classroom: 23 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Polytechnic Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
The objective of this subject is that students learn to use information generated by UAVs to support decisión making on land diagnostic and urban and regional planning. For this, the first basic objective is to know the processes for generating cartography and geographic databases of land use and cover and for updating them from UAV data.
The memory of the degree includes for this subject the following contents:
• Analysis of land systems: theoretical framework, analysis by subsystems
• Statistic and geographic data sources: basic concepts of spatial analysis
• Instruments for land planning and management
• Risk management: risk and danger; types; risk governance; mitigation and adaptation strategies
• Spatial decision support systems: concept, models, sensitivity analysis
• Analysis of land dynamics: drivers, main processes, land use change models
These contents are developed through the following programme:
BLOCK 1. INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Application of UAVs for land management (1 hour)
Chapter 2. Fontes estatísticas e cartográficas (2 hours)
Chapter 3. Instrumentos de ordenación e xestión territorial (2 hour)
BLOCK 2. ANALYSIS OF LAND SYSTEMS AND LAND DYNAMICS
Chapter 4. Analysis of land systems: environment, settlement and infrastructure subsystems (1 hour)
Chapter 5. Analysis of land dynamics: analysis and mapping of land use evolution and land use change models (4 hours)
Chapter 6. Analysis of urban growth and evolution (1 hour)
BLOCK 3. SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS AND PLANNING SUPPORT SYSTEMS
Chapter 7. Methods for land planning and management: land suitability evaluation, ecosystem services evaluation, analysis of urban planning (2 hours)
Chapter 8. Spatial decision support systems (1 hour)
Chapter 9. Planning Support Systems (1 hour)
Chapter 10. Risk management strategies (1 hour)
Practice 1. Management of land information (5 h)
Practice 2. Application to urban planning (5 h)
Pratcice 3. Application to land analysis (5 h)
Practice 4. Application to spatial planning (10 h)
Basic bibliography:
Gómez Delgado, M., Barredo Cano, J. I. (2005). Sistemas de información geográfica y evaluación multicriterio en la ordenación del territorio. RA-MA, Madrid.4
González Toro, F., Tsourdos, A. (2018). UAV-Based Remote Sensing. Basel, Suiza: MDPI.
Complementary bibliography:
Johnson, R., Smith, K., Wescott, K. (2015). Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) applications to land and natural resource management. Environmental Practice, 17(3), 170-177.
Shahbazi, M., Theaou, J., Menard, P. (2014). Recent applications of unmanned aerial imagery in natural resource management. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 51(4), 339-365.
Throughout the subject, students should acquire or improve the following competences:
A) General and basic competences:
CB6, CB7, CB9, CB10, CG3, CG5
CB6 – To have knowledge that provides an opportunity for being original in the development and/or application of ideas, usually in a research context
CB7 – Students must know to apply the acquired knowledge and their capability for solving problems in new or little-known environments in wider (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their study area
CB9 – Students must to know how communicate their conclusions -and the knowledge and reasons in which are based on- to expert and non-expert public in a clear way
CB10 – Students must have abilities for learning, which allow them to continue studying in an autonomous or self-addressed way.
CG3 – Students must acquire the ability to analyse the demands of a company in the field of UAVs and determine the best technological solution for it
CG5 – Students must know and be able to apply the principles and methodologies for research, such as bibliographic review, data capture and data analysis and interpretation, as well as present conclusions in a clear, concise and rigorous way.
B) Cross competences:
CT3, CT5, CT6, CT8, CT9
CT3 – Sustainability and environmental compromise. Equitable, responsible and efficient use of resources.
CT5 – Abilities for personal relationships
CT6 – Capability for team work
CT8 – Capability for analysis and synthesis
CT9 – Capability for critical reasoning and creativity
SCENARIO 1
The main teaching methodologies that will be used along the course (defined in the degree memory) and the practiced competences in each case:
Theoretical lectures (CB6, CB10, CG3, CT3).
Practical lectures using ICT (CB7, CG3, CG5, CT8, CT9).
Tutorized works (CB6, CB7, CB9, CB10, CG3, CG5, CT5, CT6, CT8, CT9).
There will be a visit (2 hours) to the Institute of Land Studies (IET) Mandatory (CB7, CG3)
SCENARIO 2
The teaching methodology will be the same as in scenario 1.
SCENARIO 3
The theoretical and practical lectures will be held via web throught the platform MS Teams. The tutorized works will be developed in the same way and the visit to the IET will take place only if the conditions allow it.
SCENARIO 1
Evaluation will be carried out by an objective test (30% of the final score), a portfolio (60% of the final score), which must join the results of a set of works defined throughout the course, and the continuous monitoring of attendance and active participation (10%). A minimum score of 4 points in the two first parts is required for passing the subject. In the case of repeater students that have passed some of the parts, the score of those parts will be saved until the following academic course, anyway he or she will have the possibility to repeat the evaluation if he or she prefers this option.
The objective test will evaluate the following competences: CB6, CB10, CG3, CT3.
The portfolio will evaluate the following competences: CB6, CB7, CB9, CB10, CG3, CG5, CT5, CT6, CT8, CT9.
The continuous monitoring of attendance and active participation will evaluate the following competences: CB9, CT5, CT6.
In the case that the student has an attendance exemption, he or she should do an practical exam of the contents teached in the practical lectures.
This evaluation system will be used for ordinary and extraordinary opportunities.
SCENARIO 2
The assessment system will be the same as in scenario 1.
ESCENARIO 3
The objective test will be replaced by additional works for the portfolio of works described in scenario 1. Consequently, in this scenario the requirements for minimum qualification of the objective test and for practical exam in the case of exception of attendance are removed. In the caso of the student does not pass the subject, the partial qualifications of works will be saved for the following opportunities.
The final qualification will correspond to the qualification of the portfolio of work in a 90% and to the attendance and active participation in the videoconferences in a 10%.
The portfolio will evaluate the following competences: CB6, CB7, CB9, CB10, CG3, CG5, CT5, CT6, CT8, CT9.
The continuous monitoring of attendance and active participation will evaluate the following competences: CB9, CT3, CT5, CT6.
This evaluation system will be used for ordinary and extraordinary opportunities.
In the cases of fraudulent development of excercises or tests, the "Normative of assessment of academic performance of students and of review of qualifications" will be applied.
This subject comprises a total of 20 presential hours of theoretical lectures, 30 presential hours of practical lectures and 3 hours of tutorials, and 102 hours of personal homework.
Students should have basic knowledge of geographic information systems
CONTINGENCY PLAN
In scenario 2 the same teaching methodology and assessment system of scenario 1 will be applied.
In scenario 3 the teaching methodology will be modified in the following way:
The theoretical and practical lectures will be held via web throught the platform MS Teams. The tutorized works will be developed in the same way and the visit to the IET will take place only if the conditions allow it.
In scenario 3 the assessment system will be modified in the following way:
The objective test will be replaced by additional works for the portfolio of works described in scenario 1. Consequently, in this scenario the requirements for minimum qualification of the objective test and for practical exam in the case of exception of attendance are removed. In the caso of the student does not pass the subject, the partial qualifications of works will be saved for the following opportunities.
The final qualification will correspond to the qualification of the portfolio of work in a 90% and to the attendance and active participation in the videoconferences in a 10%.
The portfolio will evaluate the following competences: CB6, CB7, CB9, CB10, CG3, CG5, CT5, CT6, CT8, CT9.
The continuous monitoring of attendance and active participation will evaluate the following competences: CB9, CT3, CT5, CT6.
This evaluation system will be used for ordinary and extraordinary opportunities.
In the cases of fraudulent development of excercises or tests, the "Normative of assessment of academic performance of students and of review of qualifications" will be applied.
María De La Luz Gil Docampo
- Department
- Agroforestry Engineering
- Area
- Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry
- ml.gil [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer