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Provided by: Boston University Corporate Education Center GIS Project Development and ProcessUnfiled |
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Course description
The pursuit of a GIS analysis process involves a number of specific steps. This course introduces students to a structured approach to GIS project development from conceptualization to final results. Special attention is paid to the planning and organization process and the course highlights specific issues that may be faced at each stage. During the final day of the course students utilize what they have learned to complete an individual GIS analysis project.
Who should attend
Professionals using GIS or newly introduced to the technology will benefit from the conceptual approach to GIS analysis and spatial problem solving provided by this course.
Prerequisites
GIS102 Introduction to GIS Software: ESRI ArcGIS 9.x
What you will achieve
- Develop basic project management skills for organizing and pursuing a GIS project
- Understand the conceptual process of performing a GIS analysis project
- Be able to segment a problem or question into specific GIS procedures and operations
- Become familiar with many of the common operations performed in GIS
- Understand how the data, analysis, and presentation aspects of GIS interrelate to produce successful GIS analysis and communication
What you will learn
- Review of GIS as a system Project management techniques for GIS
- Conceptualizing GIS projects
- The GIS project model
- Identifying data
- Data manipulation and preparing for analysis
- Translating criteria to analysis processes
- Performing analysis
- Presenting analysis conclusions
- Self-directed GIS project
- Student driven GIS analysis project
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