2016 QUARTER 02

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V W

Assess the status of openness in the GIS&T field
In the role of a consultant or chief information officer, respond to a client’s or colleague’s question about the future prospects of open standards and systems in GIS&T
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of adopting open systems in the context of a local government
Differentiate “open standards,” “open source,” and “open systems”

Explain how optimization models can be used to generate models of alternate options for presentation to decision makers
Explain, using the concept of combinatorial complexity, why some location problems are very hard to solve
Compare and contrast the concepts of discrete location problems and continuous location problems
Explain the concept of solution space
Explain the principles of operations research modeling and location modeling

Compare and contrast centralized, federated, and distributed models for managing information infrastructures
Describe the roles and relationships of GIS&T support staff
Exemplify how to make GIS&T relevant to top management
Describe different organizational models for coordinating GIS&T participants and stakeholders
Describe the stages of two different models of implementing a GIS within an organization

Illustrate what functions a support or service center can provide to an organization using GIS&T
Analyze how using GIS&T as an integrating technology affects different models of management Describe how GIS&T can be used in the decision-making process in organizations dealing with natural resource management, business management, public management, or operations management
Explain how GIS&T can be an integrating technology
Differentiate an enterprise system from a department-centered GIS

Discuss Openshaw’s contributions in the development of this sub-discipline
Summarize the role of the GeoComputation conference series in shaping this sub-discipline (http://www.geocomputation.org/)
Summarize the development of geocomputation techniques and algorithms and the related advances in computer technology/architecture that have aided in the ability to carry out more complex processes in GIS&T

Describe several classic problems to which network analysis is applied (e.g., the traveling salesman problem, the Chinese postman problem)
Explain why heuristic solutions are generally used to address the combinatorially complex nature of these problems and the difficulty of solving them optimally

Explain how outliers affect the results of analyses
Explain how the following techniques can be used to examine outliers: tabulation, histograms, box plots, correlation analysis, scatter plots, local statistics

Explain why the process “dissolve and merge” often follows vector overlay operations
Outline the possible sources of error in overlay operations
Compare and contrast the concept of overlay as it is implemented in raster and vector domains
Demonstrate how the geometric operations of intersection and overlay can be implemented in GIS
Demonstrate why the georegistration of datasets is critical to the success of any map overlay operation
Formalize the operation called map overlay using Boolean logic
Explain what is meant by the term “planar enforcement”
Exemplify applications in which overlay is useful, such as site suitability analysis

Describe the use of based on temporal relationships of objects and space (crime or disease analyses are examples)

Differentiate among machine learning, data mining, and pattern recognition
Explain the principles of pattern recognition
Apply a simple spatial mean filter to an image as a means of recognizing patterns
Construct an edge-recognition filter
Design a simple spatial mean filter
Explain the outcome of an artificial intelligence analysis (e.g., edge recognition), including a discussion of what the human did not see that the computer identified and vice versa

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