Geographic Information System school training courses in Durham, NC (public, in-house or online)

This course provides an introduction to Geographic Information Systems. Participants learn to do common tasks using the ArcGIS desktop, including how to create GIS maps, manage data, and perform queries. More advanced data manipulation is also addressed. This course is for students with no previous GIS experience. 10 hours.

GIS is an evolving technology that has changed greatly in the last decade and is affecting many disciplines. This certificate has been designed to provide fundamental knowledge and skills needed to implement GIS in your business or organization.

This course serves as an optional preliminary course to the Certificate Program in Geographic Information Systems and fulfills prerequisite requirements for the Graduate Program in Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures
Introduces the concepts and skills essential to use a geographic information system (GIS) for spatial analysis and problem-solving. Focus is initially on the use, design and construction of maps. Students complete GIS tasks from data collection and spatial analysis t...

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Introduces information-technology managers to geographic information systems (GIS) and their applications. You will learn the combination of software and hardware through which you can manipulate, analyze and display spatially referenced information151information that is referenced by its location on the earth146s surface. By linking data to maps, a GIS can reveal relationships not apparent with traditional item-referenced information systems and database-management products. By displaying infor...

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This course introduces the fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) including basic cartographic principles, map scales, coordinate systems, and map projections. The uses of hardware and software elements that emphasize vector-based data structures using ArcView Spatial Analysis extension are explored. Various applications of GIS technology used in science, business, and government are presented. Specific topics addressed include GIS terminology, raster and vector data structures, da...

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