地理科学学士-地理信息科学

地理信息科学径迹（GISci）至少需要18-19 sh。地理调查可以检查现象（例如，景观，野生动植物的迁徙或疾病的传播）在空间和时间上的变化方式和原因。那些对地理信息科学（GIS）感兴趣的人使用最新的计算机系统和技术来研究和开发方法，以解决与分析和建模这类现象相关的独特挑战。从了解可以帮助人在太空中导航的手持式移动设备，到跟踪飓风或疾病现场等移动物体的应用程序，GIScience都提供了令人兴奋和有益的研究领域。GIS本科课程是为准备在政府机构，非政府组织，国际发展机构和企业中任职的学生而设计的。它还为地
Geography is concerned with places or environments and the physical, social, economic, and political processes that change them. It is a composite science, requiring a broad base of knowledge from many related disciplines. Geography also is an analytical science that seeks answers to specific questions from a geographic perspective. To achieve their aims, geographers develop and use advanced geospatial methods, including computer-based mapping, global positioning, and satellite sensing. The importance of geographical and sustainability sciences is rooted in the complexity of social and environmental problems. We live on a dynamic planet, one that is constantly changing in response to human and natural processes that are highly interconnected. Geographers study the interactions between people and their environment to better understand these intricately related processes. At the University of Iowa, the department teaches and conducts research on human and natural systems and how interactions between these systems shape the world we live in. Cutting-edge technologies, such as geographic information systems (GIS), satellite imagery, and Global Positioning System (GPS), are used to help inform decision making at geographic scales and to analyze and visualize geographic processes.