Postgraduate Course: Dissertation - GeoScience and Remote Sensing (PGGE11113)
Course Outline
| School | School of Geosciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Dissertation |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 60 |
| Home subject area | Postgraduate Courses (School of GeoSciences) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/MSc/mscprogrammes/remotesip/ |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | 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.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Full Year, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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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).
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Hugh Pumphrey
Tel: (0131 6)50 6026
Email: h.c.pumphrey@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Christine Wilson
Tel: (0131 6)50 4866
Email: Christine.Wilson@ed.ac.uk |
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