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Geospatial Services, MPS

2021-2022 Edition

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The Northeastern University MPS in Geospatial Services program is designed for working professionals striving to maintain competitive, leading-edge capabilities at a time of rapidly growing utilization of geospatial data for diversity of government and business intelligence needs. Program strengths are highly correlated with geospatial workforce requirements as identified by geospatial enterprise leaders from government and industry. Our curriculum incorporates tools, technologies, and services required in three primary sectors: 

  • Location-based geodata (collect, manage, distribute spatial information and imagery)
  • Geo-applications and devices (devices and software for creating, visualizing, and sharing geospatial information)
  • Geo-expert industries (turn location-based information into insights for commercial and government organizations)

Available 100 percent online and built to Northeastern University’s high academic standards, our program’s experiential focus emphasizes the connections between learning and workplace needs. 

 Complete all courses and requirements listed below unless otherwise indicated. 

Required Courses

Course List
Code Title Hours
GIS 5103Foundations of Geographic Information Science4
GIS 5201Advanced Spatial Analysis3
GIS 6980Capstone4
RMS 5105Fundamentals of Remote Sensing3
Complete two of the following:6-7
EAI 6000
Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
ITC 6045
Information Technology Policy, Ethics, and Social Responsibility
ITC 6300
Foundations of Information Security
ITC 6460
Cloud Analytics
PJM 5900
Foundations of Project Management
PJM 6000
Project Management Practices

The remaining quarter hours required for the program may be completed by a combination of completing a concentration and additional electives or selecting any courses listed in the concentrations and electives.

Concentrations

  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Geospatial Analytics
  • Remote Sensing

Electives

Course List
Code Title Hours
COP 6940Personal and Career Development3-4
EAI 6000Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence3
EDU 6184Interdisciplinary Foundations2
INT 6940Experiential Learning Projects for Professionals1-4

Program Credit/GPA Requirements

45 total quarter hours required
Minimum 3.000 GPA required


Geographic Information Systems

Course List
Code Title Hours
Complete six of the following:18
GIS 6320
Use and Applications of Free and Open-Source GIS Desktop Software
GIS 6340
GIS Customization
GIS 6330
Building Geospatial Systems at Scale
GIS 6345
Geospatial Programming
GIS 6350
Planning a GIS Implementation
GIS 6360
Spatial Databases
GIS 6370
Internet-Based GIS
GIS 6385
GIS/Cartography
GIS 6983
Topics
ITC 6480
Amazon Web Service (AWS) Cloud Architecting
RMS 6293
Allied Technologies in Remote Sensing

Geospatial Analytics

Course List
Code Title Hours
Complete the following:18
ALY 6020
Predictive Analytics
ALY 6040
Data Mining Applications
ALY 6030
Data Warehousing and SQL
ALY 6070
Communication and Visualization for Data Analytics
ALY 6110
Data Management and Big Data
ALY 6983
Topics

Remote Sensing

Course List
Code Title Hours
RMS 6110Introduction to Machine Learning for Image Data3
Complete five of the following:15-16
GIS 6330
Building Geospatial Systems at Scale
GIS 6345
Geospatial Programming
ITC 6480
Amazon Web Service (AWS) Cloud Architecting
RMS 6240
Introduction to Radar and LiDAR Remote Sensing
RMS 6280
Automated Feature Extraction for the Geospatial Professional
RMS 6290
Spectroscopic Image Analysis
RMS 6293
Allied Technologies in Remote Sensing
RMS 6983
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