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I just graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a specialization in Geography, and a minor in Spanish Language and Culture. I also completed a Certificate of Geographic Techniques which speaks to some degree of competency with GIS, remote sensing, and statistics.
I really enjoyed the remote sensing course I took in my final semester and have been seriously thinking of pursuing a Masters in Geomatics at the University of Guelph, Carleton U (Ottawa), or Toronto. As you may have guessed I am Canadian.
My grades in the physical geography courses were, on average, my highest. This includes courses for things like introductory Earth Science, biogeography, remote sensing, permafrost, intro statistics, the scientific method, and climatology. Almost all of my physical geog courses final marks were in the A range.
I also completed a thesis, but the emphasis was more social science-related. Basically, I matched employment in the resource extraction industry of small political jurisdictions to corresponding socio-economic variables (like unemployment rate, property value, age, education level, etc.). The goal was to profile how resource employment may be influencing the social makeup of Canada as a whole. I reached some interesting results, but the point is it had nothing to do with neither geomatics nor physical geography.
I am taking a year off before I attend graduate school. I'm going regardless of whether or not it makes sense to go the science route. The difference is whether I'll enroll as an M.A. or an M.Sc.student.
However, I am seriously really keen on applying for geomatics. I've ordered a textbook for geoscience mathematics (Mathematics: A Simple Tool for Geologists), one for remote sensing (Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation), and one for geomorph (Geomorphology: A Canadian Perspective). What is your opinion on all of this? Doable? I suppose the things I am most lacking is basically any real knowledge of chemistry. Also, I ended my Mathematics studies at the grade 11 mixed level. I did perfectly fine (actually fantastic) in the two statistics courses I took, however, but that's also just basic functions and focusses around central tendency in normal distributions. Nothing terribly complicated. What do you suggest I focus on, in terms of math and science self-education during my year off?
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