Detailed information about the assignments will be given during the first lecture.

On the course there will be five rounds of weekly assignments (WA-1 through WA-5), which will be solved alone or in pairs. These assignments will include consist of working with coordinate data, doing GIS analysis, etc. In addition, there will be two group work assignments (GW-1 and GW-2), solved in groups of four.

All weekly assignments and group work assignments are required in order to pass the course. If you cannot submit an assignment in time, contact the course staff before the deadline!

All assignment are such that you can do them in your own time, keeping the timeframe given in the course timeble. The timetable allows some flexibility in planning your own work, but prepare to work on weekly basis. Estimated workload for the weekly assignments is 5-10 hours per week, with the work required for the group work assignments on top of that. Be prepared to use 12-14 hours per week working on the course assignments.

Support for the assignments is given in the exercise sessions and in the course Teams.

The GIS software (QGIS) used in the weekly exercises are available in the following classrooms at Aalto campus:

  • Maari C-D-E
  • Otakaari 1 A046A and A046, A202b, A229, A235, U257, U351, and Y338
  • Architecture Valimo
  • ARTS Väre J302, K301, and L208
  • Tietotie 1E 229 

Instructions on how remotely to access the campus classrooms can be found here: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/remote-access-to-windows-classroom-computers.

You can also download and install QGIS to your own computer from https://qgis.org/ without any restrictions, since it is free and open source software.
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