Processing, analysis and presentation of environmental data
3 March - 28 March 2025 - Teaching Unit #2
Update : 06/20/2024
Objectives
To propose a set of methods and tools to study complex data (georeferencing, temporal data and so on) in order to predict a variable of interest or identify consistent sub-sets and to represent these results in the form of maps and charts.
- Reference of the course: Data Manager for environmental projects UE2 - Level: 400
- Admission
- Europe - 3d year of Bachelor’s degree/ 1st year of Master’s degree
- USA - Bachelor Junior students/ Bachelor senior students - Teaching language: English (B1 level)
- Organization and credits: The course is a full time 4-week-long course. Successful completion of this course brings 7 ECTS credits
- Requirements: Basic knowledge in: Statistics (sampling, estimation, principle of statistical tests), Databases (tables and simple SQL queries) and statistical free software R.
- Grades: Grades are based on evaluation of individual participation to classes and a group project.
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Course content
The course will combine lectures-seminars, tutorials, interviews and on-site visits and project-based learning.
Disciplinary Content Nb of hours Applications : project (tutorials with R, QGIS) and advanced level in R 8 Distributed spatial data extraction and management, Databases, Big data, Semantic Networks 20 Statistics (Spatial autocorrelation and regression) 18 Variogram – Kriging 5 Geomatics 6 -
Books and other reading materials
No books have been ordered for this course. All required readings are available as downloads from the Montpellier SupAgro teaching platform. There is no formal reading packet for this course.
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Partnerships
Research Units: UMR MISTEA (L'institut Agro | Montpellier SupAgro & INRAE) and UMR ITAP (L'institut Agro | Montpellier SupAgro & INRAE)
Keywords: spatial data, data science
Contacts
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Bénédicte FONTEZ
Lecturer
- Department of Sciences for Agro-Bio-Processes
- UMR Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics for the Environment and Agronomy (MISTEA)
- L'Institut Agro Montpellier - La Gaillarde Campus
Email : benedicte.fontez@supagro.fr
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