Geospatial Technology is a one weighted-credit honors course. The Geospatial Technology course provides experiences pertaining to the study of geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), remote sensing (RS), digital image processing (DIPS), Geodesy, Automated Cartography (Auto-Carto), Land Surveying (LS), and navigation. Fundamentally, these technologies allow students to explore and analyze the natural and human made world, from local to global and beyond. Students will use various tools, processes and techniques to create, store, access, manipulate and revise data to solve human challenges. The experiences will employ real-world spatial analysis models and guidelines for integrating, interpreting, analyzing and synthesizing data, with a focus on both the implications and the limitations of such technologies. These experiences also include the interfacing to telecommunications and automated database management systems. This course will be offered in a "hybrid format." The course will meet live three times at the Chesapeake Center for Science and Technology in the evening after regular school hours. Once to begin the course, the second meeting will be a seminar where students present their project proposals. The third and final meeting will be reserved for presentation of culminating student projects. The balance of the course will conducted online through the Blackboard Course Management System. Students will log in each week several times at their convenience, interacting with the course content and posting to the topical discussion boards for each week. Miniassignments will be due each week, helping to prepare students for their project presentations. Students will need access to an Internet-connected computer and a computer on which the software utilized in the course can be loaded. Where access to computers at home is limited students may obtain access through their home school computer labs or libraries. High speed Internet access is not required to interact with the course content. Software will be provided along with the course text. Prerequisites: Geometry and one of the following: Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Geography.