GSTC 330 - Spatial Database Management

(4 semester hours)
Prerequisites: CISC 140 and GSTC 220
Description: This course is intended for the student who is interested in designing and implementing a spatial database and also teaches them to write spatial queries that solve real-world problems through retrieving data from a spatially enabled database. The course is designed to cover the basics of the relational model for database management where data can be accessed and reassembled in different ways that are of relevance to both geographic and non-geographic context. The student will learn a domain-specific language such as Structured Query Language (SQL) to be able to manage data, and it also gives the student a solid background in vector, raster, and topology-based Geographic Information System (GIS) in order to analyze, view, and map data. Offered Fall Semester, annually.