The Short Course on “GIS – Principles and Applications in Human Settlements” is a unique and intense 5-day programme for working professionals from diverse backgrounds working on different aspects of human settlements. It is blended with essentials of theory on Geographic Information Science and Systems and followed by hands-on exposure to practice with exclusive case studies. The Short Course will equip learners to appreciate the nuances of key concepts, enabling them to quickly learn, analyse and apply the techniques of GIS into their respective domains and eventually be able to produce desirable outputs. This will also expose learners to use/develop mash-ups based on popular web-based GIS applications like Google maps and open up learners to use volunteered geographic information and crowd-sourced knowledge in their respective use cases.
The course will comprise of lectures, guest lectures, lab sessions and case study/practica. The topics that will be included are :
- Introduction to GI Science and Systems
- Geospatial data types and representation
- Data processing systems
- Data entry and preparation with introduction to GPS
- Geospatial data analysis
- Geo-visualisation
- Web GIS and Mash-ups
- Issues of data quality, sharing and meta-data
Our first course was successfully conducted in November in Bangalore. Click here for the details.
