Learn the basics of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), how to think about and approach problems spatially, and how GIS can be applied to your role at work.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Thinking spatially
- Solving spatial problems
- Finding and accessing GIS
- Recreating the world on a map
- Specifying location
- Essential map comprehension
- More than digital maps
- Layers of data stacked together
- The data behind the map
- Images, surfaces, and raster layers
- LiDAR: Creating a 3D model
- Asking a map questions
- Evaluating spatial relationships
- Analysis with imagery and surfaces
- Spatial data is everywhere
- Creating your own GIS data
- Enterprise-level GIS
- Mobile and web GIS
- Putting it in practice
Taught by
Jennifer Harrison and Madecraft
