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    Spatial Tools in Water Resources Management

    Spatial Tools in Water Resources Management

    The course discusses several Geopgraphical Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) tools relevant for analysis of (problems in and aspects of) water systems. Within the course, several applications are introduced. These applications include GIS tools to determine mapping of surface water systems (catchment delineation, reservoirs and canal systems). The RS tools include determination of evaporation and soil moisture patterns, and measurement of water levels in surface water systems.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Engineering, Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, and Hydraulic Engineering
    Keywords:
    Spatial analysis (Statistics) Hydrogeology Water-supply -- Management
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Citizens Co-creating Sustainable Cities

    Citizens Co-creating Sustainable Cities

    Around the world, major challenges of our time such as population growth and climate change are being addressed in cities. Here, citizens play an important role amidst governments, companies, NGOs and researchers in creating social, technological and political innovations for achieving sustainability. Citizens can be co-creators of sustainable cities when they engage in city politics or in the design of the urban environment and its technologies and infrastructure. In addition, citizens influence and are influenced by the technologies and systems that they use every day. Sustainability is thus a result of the interplay between technology, policy and people’s daily lives. Understanding this interplay is essential for creating sustainable cities. In this MOOC, we zoom in on Amsterdam, Beijing, Ho Chi Minh City, Nairobi, Kampala and Suzhou as living labs for exploring the dynamics of co-creation for sustainable cities worldwide. We will address topics such as participative democracy and legitimacy, ICTs and big data, infrastructure and technology, and SMART technologies in daily life. This global scope will be used to illustrate why specific forms of co-creation are preferred in specific urban contexts. Moreover, we will investigate and compare these cities on three themes that have a vast effect on city life: - Water and waste - Energy, air, food and mobility - Green spaces and food This MOOC will teach you about the dynamics of co-creation and the key principles of citizens interacting with service providing companies, technology and infrastructure developers, policy makers and researchers. You will gain an understanding of major types of co-creation and their interdependency with their socio-technical and political contexts. You will become equipped to indicate how you can use co-creation to develop innovative technologies, policy arrangements or social practices for a sustainable city in your own community. You will demonstrate this by developing an action plan, research proposal or project idea. Basic knowledge of sustainability in urban settings, urban environmental technology and urban management is assumed.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Engineering, Building Services Engineering, and Building and Real Estate
    Keywords:
    Sustainable development Sustainable development -- Citizen participation City planning
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    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Unmanned Aerial Systems

    Unmanned Aerial Systems

    Unmanned Aerial Systems, or drones, are developing aggressively, and many government and non-government agencies are considering acquiring such systems. This course will focus on the geo-spatial utilization of a UAS. It will cultivate students' knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of the UAS and data post-processing systems. It introduces fundamental concepts surrounding operating a UAS such as strategies for selecting the right UAS, assessing its performance, managing resulting products (i.e. imagery), selecting the appropriate commercially available processing software, assessing product accuracy, figuring ways and means of producing metric products from UAS, and understanding rules and regulations governing operating a UAS in the United States.

    Subjects:
    Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
    Keywords:
    Drone aircraft Geospatial data
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Spatial Data Analytics for Transportation

    Spatial Data Analytics for Transportation

    Do you know how important GIS is to the transportation industry? The spatial applications to this field are so extensive that they represent an entire sub-discipline within the GIS community. In this course, we'll learn about the primary modes of transportation and explore some of the spatial applications developed to meet the unique needs of each. We'll also take a close look at some key organizations in the industry and learn firsthand from more than a dozen transportation professionals about the role GIS plays for them.

    Subjects:
    Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics and Transportation
    Keywords:
    Transportation -- Planning Geographic information systems Geospatial data
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Geographic Information Analysis

    Geographic Information Analysis

    In this data rich world, we need to understand how things are organized on the Earth's surface. Those things are represented by spatial data and necessarily depend upon what surrounds them. Spatial statistics provide insights into explaining processes that create patterns in spatial data. In geographical information analysis, spatial statistics such as point pattern analysis, spatial autocorrelation, and spatial interpolation will analyze the spatial patterns, spatial processes, and spatial association that characterize spatial data. Understanding spatial analysis will help you realize what makes spatial data special and why spatial analysis reveals a truth about spatial data.

    Subjects:
    Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
    Keywords:
    Spatial analysis (Statistics) Geographic information systems
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    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Exploring Imagery and Elevation Data in GIS Applications

    Exploring Imagery and Elevation Data in GIS Applications

    This course focuses on the use of remotely sensed imagery and elevation data in GIS applications. Students enrolling in this course should have a solid conceptual foundation in geospatial information science and technology. The course is appropriate for those who are already working in the geospatial profession and wish to use imagery and elevation data in visualization and spatial analysis.

    Subjects:
    Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
    Keywords:
    Geographic information systems Image processing -- Digital techniques
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    15.024 Applied Economics for Managers | Sloan School of Management

    15.024 Applied Economics for Managers | Sloan School of Management

    The fact of scarcity forces individuals, firms, and societies to choose among alternative uses – or allocations – of its limited resources. Accordingly, the first part of this summer course seeks to understand how economists model the choice process of individual consumers and firms, and how markets work to coordinate these choices. It also examines how well markets perform this function using the economist's criterion of market efficiency. Overall, this course focuses on microeconomics, with some topics from macroeconomics and international trade. It emphasizes the integration of theory, data, and judgment in the analysis of corporate decisions and public policy, and in the assessment of changing U.S. and international business environments.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Microeconomics
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
    OER
  • Courseware 
    Data Analysis: Building your Own Business Dashboard

    Data Analysis: Building your Own Business Dashboard

    Are you ready to leave the sandbox and go for the real deal? Have you followed Data Analysis: Take It to the MAX() and Data Analysis: Visualization and Dashboard Design and are ready to carry out more robust data analysis? In this project-based course you will engage in a real data analysis project that simulates the complexity and challenges of data analysts at work. Testing, data wrangling, Pivot Tables, sparklines? Now that you have mastered them you are ready to apply them all and carry out an independent data analysis. For your project, you will pick one raw dataset out of several options, which you will turn into a dashboard. You will begin with a business question that is related to the dataset that you choose. The datasets will touch upon different business domains, such as revenue management, call-center management, investment, etc.

    Subjects:
    Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
    Keywords:
    Industrial management -- Data processing Information visualization Dashboards (Management information systems) Visual analytics
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Big Data Strategies to Transform Your Business

    Big Data Strategies to Transform Your Business

    While big data infiltrates all walks of life, most firms have not changed sufficiently to meet the challenges that come with it. In this course, you will learn how to develop a big data strategy, transform your business model and your organization. This course will enable professionals to take their organization and their own career to the next level, regardless of their background and position. Professionals will learn how to be in charge of big data instead of being subject to it. In particular, they will become familiar with tools to: - assess their current situation regarding potential big data-induced changes of a disruptive nature, - identify their options for successfully integrating big data in their strategy, business model and organization, or if not possible, how to exit quickly with as little loss as possible, and - strengthen their own position and that of their organization in our digitalized knowledge economy The course will build on the concepts of product life cycles, the business model canvas, organizational theory and digitalized management jobs (such as Chief Digital Officer or Chief Informatics Officer) to help you find the best way to deal with and benefit from big data induced changes. During the course, your most pressing questions will be answered in our feedback videos with the lecturer. In the assignments of the course, you will choose a sector and a stakeholder. For this, you will develop your own strategy and business model. This will help you identify the appropriate organizational structure and potential contributions and positions for yourself.

    Subjects:
    Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Management
    Keywords:
    Business -- Data processing Big data
    Resource Type:
    Courseware