Course Objectives: This course would provide the participants with a full understanding of GIS concepts and principles and how it can be used for resource management.
Course Content: Introduction to concepts; areas of application; system planning & acquisition; data automation; implementation and evaluation strategies; costs and benefits analysis; spatial query and analysis; towards a national GIS/LIS strategy.
Course Objective: This course is designed to expose participants to how GIS can be used to develop applications. Using real-life data, the participants will develop GIS databases.
Course Content: Conceptual and logical database design; building and coding the attributes; digitizing and scanning of maps; relating spatial and attribute data; using databases; and database management.
Course Objectives: Participants will be introduced to basic principles of remote sensing, image processing and feature extraction methods as used for GIS.
Course Content: Electromagnetic radiation and their interactions with surfaces. Remote sensing systems and sensors. Image processing techniques.
Course Objective: This course would provide the participants an appreciation of field-based data acquisition methods that can be used to build and update GIS spatial databases.
Course Content: Satellite systems: components, modes of operation, infrastructural need, and sources of data. Terrestrial systems: establishment of controls detailed surveying, combination with satellite methods. Datums: traditional and satellite systems, conversion, and accuracy. Applications and quality assessment.
GLIS 0453 - Spatial Analysis
Course Objectives: Participants will acquire the skills and knowledge to use desktop mapping software for various spatial data analyses.
Course Content: ArcGIS basics; creating views and themes; working with themes; the power of tables; spatial query and analysis; working with charts; creating a map layout; addresses and other events. Digital terrain models. Network analysis. Address-matching system.
Course Objectives: This course provides participants the knowledge to design and develop visualisations of GIS data using cartographic design principles and desktop mapping software.
Course Content: Introduction to cartographic visualisation and the mapping process; the basic components of a map; map design; symbol design; name design and placement; concept of scale; map projections; data pre-processing techniques; thematic mapping; digital mapping.
Course Objectives: To elicit from the participants their understanding of the programme and their ability to apply concepts learned to relevant situations.
Course Content: Independent design, development and implementation of a GIS application relevant to their organisation.
The Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management
The Faculty of Engineering
UWI, St. Augustine
Tel: (868) 662-2002 ext. 82108 / 82109
Email: Geomatics.Engineering@sta.uwi.edu
