用于自然资源监视和管理的现代协议高度依赖于空间技术的利用，例如遥感和地理信息系统（GIS）。空间技术和相关的测量与定量学科，再加上资源管理所需的一般知识，对于公共和私营部门的自然资源专业至关重要。学生还将充分准备继续该领域的研究生学习。该集中课程专门为学生提供基本背景知识，以满足他们对可以收集，管理和操作用于自然资源管理的复杂地理空间和辅助数据的专业人员迅速增长的需求。
Modern protocols for natural resource monitoring and management are highly dependent on utilization of spatial technologies such as remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS). Spatial technologies and allied measurement and quantitative disciplines, combined with general knowledge needed for resource management, are essential in public and private sector natural resource professions.Students will also be amply prepared to continue with graduate studies in this area. This concentration is specifically designed to provide students with the fundamental background to meet the rapidly growing need for professionals who can collect, manage, and manipulate complex geospatial and ancillary data used in natural resource management