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The past two decades have witnessed tremendous development of 3D visualization techniques, geographic information technologies (GIT) involving GPS, remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS). Geographical information has become a vital part of our daily professional and private lives. The ever increasing availability of geographical information calls for professional and academic competence to study and carefully design geographical information systems and services, and likewise experts who can draw on the full potential of such systems. The potential of GIT and related systems is tremendous, which has been noted by the US department of Labor, as cited in the journal Nature, January , GIT is one of the three most important emerging research fields, along with biotechnology and nanotechnology.

The master programme in Geospatial information science provides you high level academic training of interdisciplinary character. It integrates ideas, theories and methods from geo sciences, in its broad interpretation, and from information technology or computer science. The core of the subject is technically oriented with a f