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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}GIS_1.png" style="width: 188px; height: 250px; float: right;" />No technology has revolutionized the practice, management and strategies of modern conservation as much as the development Geographic Information Systems and associated remote sensing techniques. Enabled by such technologies to match and relate different environmental, political, social and biological attributes in space and time to solve complex environmental problems in spatial analysis, and to do so using remote-sensing data collection systems, scientists and managers with skills in GIS applications and its attendant data-organization systems have become some of the most sought-after and highly-paid professionals in conservation science, as well as in other fields, where the same technologies have been applied to social, political and economic analyses, and subsequently better integrated with analysis of conservation problems. Environmental Applications of GIS, will be an applications-oriented course on GIS and GIS data management and organization, and focus on use of GIS technology in the field and in the actual application of GIS procedures to solving contemporary, real-world problems in environmental science.</p>
