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Dissertation - Remote Sensing (P00782)

? Credit Points : 60 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : GEO-P-RSD

Research is undertaken leading to submission of a dissertation consisting of: an article written as for an academic journal plus supporting appendices, and a project summary on the WWW. Students are guided individually by a project supervisor and collectively by regular project progress reviews.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Available only to postgraduate students

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate Courses (School of GeoSciences), (School of GeoSciences, Schedule N)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Full Year (Blocks 1-4)

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

On completion of the dissertation project, students should be able to:

- manage the progress of a long-term project such that a useful result is obtained
- harness their knowledge of remote sensing and image processing for research purposes
- critically assess each step of their research for validity
- explore, using critical judgement, the research literature in their topic
- write an account of their research that meets the specification of an appropriate academic journal
- create a web page summary of their research for a non-specialist audience

Assessment Information

Dissertation.
The assessment is based on (i) a dissertation written by the student of the form and length required by an academic journal, and (ii) a web-page summary of their project for a non-specialist audience. The weighting is 90% for the journal article and 10% for the web page(s).