Description: Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours. Requisite: course 401 (may be taken concurrently). Design, development, and management of geospatial databases, including databases used in shared and scalable enterprise geographic information systems (GIS) platforms. Introduction of relational database theory and design, database performance, and user access considerations. Students learn to develop and work with enterprise database systems that support large datasets and simultaneous access by many users. Introduction of enterprise GIS systems and techniques facilitating concurrent editing of shared spatial databases. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0