Information Systems and Statistics for the Territory

Module 1: Territorial Information System
The course aims at providing students with advanced knowledge on spatial analysis and the production of thematic cartography in a GIS environment

Module 2: Statistics
The course aims to give students the necessary tools to understand phenomena through statistical analysis of data. Specifically, the student should achieve the following objectives: Knowledge of descriptive and inferential statistics. Evaluation of uncertainty using statistical tests. Correlation analysis between variables and use of linear regression models. Statistical comparison between data sets.

Module 1: Territorial Information System
The course aims at providing an advanced understanding of GIS by showing their utility in practical environmental and territorial applications; it also aims at providing students with the necessary ability to solve spatial problems.
At the end of the course, students must demonstrate to have acquired the following competences:
- understand characteristics of spatial data, including Digital Elevation Models and orthophotos;
- to understand and discriminate between the different reference systems in which these data are expressed
- to be able to associate raster and vector data to the appropriate reference system and/or cartographic representation;
- to be able to import, export and convert data in raster and vector format between different reference systems and cartographic projections;
- to understand the characteristics of vector and raster structures and the information necessary to georeference them
- to understand spatial interpolation techniques for the production of raster data (DEM and orthophotos); -
- to be able to carry out queries and spatial selection on vector data and attributes;
- to be able to use the raster calculator to select and analyse raster data
- to understand and successfully apply georeferencing techniques on raster data;
- to be able to break down problems into the steps required to solve it, identifying the most appropriate GIS tools for each case.

Module 2: statistics
Describe the phenomena by the main statistical indicators; Plan a sample surveys; Use the methodology of the analysis of variance at 1 factor; understand the results of statistical surveys.