Masters in Land Use and Land Management: Lines of Research

Abstract

The Master in Land Management and Territory Ordering, is an Academic Program of the National Autonomous University of Honduras, developed at the Central American Suyapa Astronomical Observatory, now Space Science Faculty, in collaboration with the Department of Geography, University of Alcalá, Spain. This program was created in 2005 and is currently developing its second promotion. The curriculum of the Master consists of six fields: Geography, Geodesy, Cartography, GIS, Remote Sensing and Land Management, having as graduation requirement a Graduate Research Project as thesis. The research lines being developed are: Regionalization, spatial analysis, natural resource mapping, hazards, fires, tourism resources and atlases, cover dynamics and land use, ecology and landscape units, geodetic networks, location of equipment, remote sensing data use in the creation, application, development programming and land management applications.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/ce.v1i1.611

Ciencias Espaciales 1(1) 2009