Teaching will be organised through a combination of lectures and practical sessions. Practical sessions will be carried out using widely accessible GIS and remote sensing software, including ArcGIS, QGIS and MiraMon.

Teaching activities that cannot be delivered face-to-face will be adapted to the virtual resources and digital learning tools available at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). In such cases, theoretical content, practical exercises and project work may be delivered through tutorials, instructional videos, online sessions or other digital learning resources.

Fifteen minutes of one of the scheduled class sessions, in accordance with the timetable established by the Faculty or the degree programme, will be allocated for students to complete the teaching and course evaluation surveys.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Continuous assessment activities

Theoretical examination | Weight: 20%

Individual and/or group practical assignments | Weight: 30%

Capstone project (Graphical Abstract: 10%; Written Report: 20%; Oral Presentation: 20%) | Weight: 50%

Continuous monitoring activity

At the beginning of each class session, the first five minutes will be devoted to answering a short written question of basic difficulty related to the contents covered in the previous session. Each student will be assigned one question at random from a pool of questions related to the course material.

These questions will account for 2.5% of the final grade and will be included within the individual and/or group practical assignments, which represent 30% of the overall assessment.

Due to its continuous and formative nature, this activity cannot be retaken.

Requirements to pass the course

To pass the course, students must obtain a minimum grade of 5.0 in each of the three assessment components.

Failure to pass any of the three components will result in failing the course, even if the weighted average of all assessment activities is equal to or greater than 5.0. In such cases, the maximum final grade awarded will be 4.9.

Students will only be required to retake the assessment component that has not been passed. In the case of the individual and/or group practical assignments, only the failed activities must be resubmitted.

Students who have not provided sufficient assessment evidence to allow an overall evaluation of their performance will receive the grade "Not Assessed", in accordance with the University's academic regulations.

Resit assessment

The theoretical examination may be retaken even if the student did not attend the initial examination, provided that the general eligibility requirements for the resit examination established by the University are met.

For the individual and/or group practical assignments and the capstone project, all required deliverables must have been submitted by the established deadlines before the resit period. Otherwise, the corresponding assessment component will not be eligible for resit.

Students who are required to resit any assessment component will not be eligible for the distinction of Honours (Matrícula d'Honor).

Submission of coursework

Late submissions will not be accepted except in duly justified circumstances. In the absence of a valid justification, the corresponding activity will receive a grade of 0.

Any circumstances preventing submission by the established deadline must be communicated to the teaching staff as soon as possible and supported by appropriate documentation. Technical problems will only be considered a valid justification when they can be adequately demonstrated.

Language quality

Language accuracy will also be assessed in practical assignments, reports and all other coursework. Each spelling mistake may result in a deduction of 0.1 marks, up to a maximum penalty of 1.5 marks per assignment.

Academic integrity

Any form of total or partial plagiarism in assessment activities will result in a grade of 0 for the affected activity, without prejudice to any disciplinary procedures that may be initiated.

Academic misconduct also includes copying from other students, submitting another person's work as one's own, or wholly or partially reusing work previously submitted.

If multiple cases of academic misconduct occur during the course, the final course grade will be 0.

Use of Artificial Intelligence tools

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools is permitted as an occasional learning support resource, provided that they do not replace the student's own work.

AI tools may not be used to generate entire assignments, coursework or assessment activities, nor to automatically complete assessed tasks.

Students remain fully responsible for the authorship, accuracy and reliability of all submitted work and must be able to explain and justify both the methodology followed and the results obtained.

When requested by the teaching staff, students must disclose the use of AI tools, specifying which tools were used, for what purpose, and in which parts of the work.

Improper use of AI—particularly where it replaces the student's own work, generates an assessment activity in its entirety, or conceals the true authorship—will be considered academic misconduct and handled in accordance with the University's assessment regulations.

Single assessment

This course does not provide a single-assessment option.