This Basic Course in Geographic Information Systems short course provides you with essential theoretical and practical foundations to design a new Geographic Information Systems (GIS) project. Important skills that will be acquired during this course include: collection of data from various sources; building an integrated GIS database; analysing the data; and communicating the results. The course not only deals with the software but participants will also be able to do a GIS project using ArcGIS.

Course content

• Basic concepts and terminology in a GIS,
• The GIS process, and
• GIS applications.
• Delivery mode of the course will be class contact sessions and web sessions.

Learning outcomes

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

• Describe a GIS, its concepts and terminology
• Explain how the GIS process works, and
• Apply this process on a GIS project.

For more on this course please click here (http://www.enterprises.up.ac.za/info-brochure/Basic%20Course%20in%20Geographic%20Information%20Systems.pdf).