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Cartography
Release Date: 2017-09-221.Basic Course Information
Course code: 151183
Course name: Cartography
Course type: Specialty course
Periods: 48
Credits: 3
Target students: Undergraduates Majoring in Land Resources Management
Assessment: Examination
Preparatory Courses: Natural Geography
2.Brief Course Introduction
Cartography is a science that studies the nature and essence of the map, the graph and applications of maps. Cartography is a fundamental course of Geography. The theories involved are closely interrelated with the subdivisions of Geography. Modern cartography technology plays an important role in social development and scientific decision-making process to achieve sustainable and steady development in the economy by submitting dynamic databases. Furthermore, the integration of cartography, remote sense, geography information, global positioning system, and information derived from maps provides instant and accurate monitoring data, implements supervision of great natural disasters, monitors, predicts and assesses the changes in resources and environment.