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| ENVT2010-1 | Acquiring and processing environmental data, sustainable development indicators (DPSIR)
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| Duration : | 40h Th, 20h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Bakary Djaby, Anne-Claude Romain |
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| Coordinator : | Anne-Claude Romain |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| Two parts
First section (AC ROMAIN)
Methodological aspects of measurement:
- Constraints on environmental measurement
- Transversal concepts of integrative indices and the aggregation of several variables
- Different steps in arranging proper instrumentation
· definition of problems and objectives
· choice of parameters to be measured, study of parametric sensitivity
· choice of methods of measurement: description of several typical methods
· choice of collection instruments depending on various metrological characteristics (error, resolution, reproducibility...)
· sampling as part of measurement (utility, strategic choices)
· placement of measuring instruments
- Organigramme for implementation a measurement protocol
Second section (D. BAKARY)
Data processing, based on concrete cases drawn from environmental studies:
- formatting of data (coding, missing data, outlier data points, computer files)
- choice of means of data handling depending on objectives in the given case
- brief and practical presentation of various graphics and mathematical tools (filtering, smoothing curves, harmonic analysis ...) and statistical tools (descriptive statistics, regressions, analysis of variations, factorial analysis...)
- methods that are particularly useful in the analysis of environmental data: cases of breaks in sequence in chronological data, mixture of categorical variables and quantitative variables...
- exercises in the computer lab based on real environmental problems |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Without reviewing fundamental concepts of theory, students will learn enough new material to handle in a concrete manner and based on real examples the collection and handling of environmental data, in order to provide clients with clear, reliable and concise information. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Basic knowledge of physics, mathematics, and statistics. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Exercises in sampling in the field, statistical development of data using computers and group brainstorming on the construction of a methodological scheme |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Theoretical classes in the amphitheatre, held in common with students of the "environmental monitoring" option, practical work in the computer lab. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Power Point presentations (access via the campus site-cfr below-) and online documents for the "data processing" part |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| oral exam on the basis of concrete cases.
written exam for the part "data processing": |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Anne-Claude ROMAIN
Département des Sciences et Gestion de l'Environnement
Université de Liège-Campus d'Arlon
Avenue de Longwy, 185
B-6700 ARLON
Belgium
Tel: 32 (0) 63 23 08 59(0) 63 23 08 5932 (0) 63 23 08 59
Fax: 32 (0)63 23 08 00
acromain@ulg.ac.be
Dr. Bakary DJABY
Senior Scientist
Resilient Dryland Systems - West and Central Africa
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
(ICRISAT)
BP 12404 NIAMEY - NIGER
Tel office +227 20722529+227 20722529+227 20722529 / +227 20722626+227 20722626+227 20722626
Fax +227 20734329
E-mail :b.djaby@cgiar.org
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| notes |
- Lecture notes are available online via the website of Department of Science and Environmental Management.
The students can also use the computers of the computer room of the campus.
A password and a login has been communicated to that end.
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