Using Computer-Linked Spatial Positioning Technology in Undergraduate Planning Education

了解地理信息系统（GIS）和环境模拟技术对专业城市规划者来说非常重要，特别是在大型和小型的物理规划项目是一个具有公共重要性的问题的环境中。 政府官员和社区团体往往期望公众对支持和反对拟议项目的地理信息系统分析和计算机生成的模拟进行批判性评估。 了解如何为所有比例尺级别的提案收集主要空间数据是一项日益重要的专业技能。 通过这个项目，规划学院购买了差分全球定位系统（DGPS）和数字电子过境提供直接指导本科规划学生在规划设计，场地规划，地理信息系统和环境模拟课程的主要空间数据收集。 该指令的目的是准备学校的毕业生在专业和公共政策方面都很重要的技术技能。

Understanding geographic information systems (GIS) and techniques of environmental simulation is important to professional urban planners, especially in settings where physical planning projects, large and small, are an issue of public importance. Planners are often expected by both public officials and community groups to assess critically GIS analyses and computer-generated simulations offered in support of and in opposition to proposed projects. Understanding how primary spatial data are collected for proposals at all scale levels is an increasingly important professional skill. Through this project, the School of Planning purchases a differential global positioning system (DGPS) and digital electronic transit to provide direct instruction to its undergraduate planning students in primary spatial data collection in courses on planning design, site planning, GIS, and environmental simulation. The purpose of this instruction is to prepare the school's graduates with a technological skill that is important in both professional and public policy terms.