Geog471 expands upon concepts and principles introduced in Geog372 GIS course and provides hands on experience in the use of GIS software.  More specifically, the course examines geographic information, the principles of geographic information science, and the techniques to collect, manage, analysis and display geographic data effectively and efficiently.  Understanding the imprecision and uncertainty in geographic information and GIS-based representations are also discussed, as well as techniques for handling uncertainty in GIS. Various application areas are demonstrated throughout the semester along with specific problem solving exercises to illustrate the use of GIS to solve real world problems.  ESRI's suite of software packages are used in this course.