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Fig. 4: Structure of the 2nd year of the MSc Degree programme in Integrated 
Hap and Geo-Information Production 
2.6 Graduation: 
On successful completion of the full programme a participant is awarded an 
MSc Degree in Integrated Map and Geo-Information Production (specialization 
in Photogrammetry, Cartography or Digital Image Processing). Participants who 
leave at the end of the first year can be awarded a Post-Graduate Diploma 
in Integrated Map and Geo-Information Production, accompanied by a Course 
Record. 
A candidate who satisfactorily completes the coursework and individually 
structured specializations in the second year of the MSc programme, but fails 
to produce a satisfactory thesis, may, at the discretion of the Degree 
Assessment Board, be awarded an Advanced Post-Graduate Diploma in Integrated 
Map and Geo-Information Production. 
3. STUDENT RESEARCH * 1 
In the Department of Geoinformatics students spend about eight months on the 
experimentation for and reporting of their research, in a thesis. On 
completion of the thesis, a student's research is examined by a committee 
consisting of a professor from ITC, an external professor from (usually) a 
Dutch university, and one other scientist with interests in the research 
area. Prior to commencing research students receive some tuition in 
scientific method and scientific writing. 
It is expected that IGP students will work independently, but in the research 
directions of the department. For the period to the end of 1993 these will 
be: 
1. Enhancing the capabilities of the institute's PC/AT based GIS (the ILWIS 
system). In particular the development of expert systems to guide 
inexperienced operators in a) good map design, b) sound decision making 
with regard to data and model quality, c) cartographic generalisation 
(lines and points) and, d) raster based area generalisation; and an 
efficient digital monoplotting capability.