GIS and Remote Sensing Courses

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Understand core GIS for water resource management principles and how they fit together in practice.
• Apply practical techniques for river network analysis. in day-to-day implementation.

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• Understand core GIS in land resource management and administration principles and how they fit together in practice.
• Apply practical techniques for data querying procedures in day-to-day implementation.

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• Map land use and zoning classifications using GIS
• Apply multi-criteria overlay analysis for site suitability assessment

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• Define and map trade areas and catchment zones for a business
• Map competitor locations and identify market gaps

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• Understand core GIS mapping and spatial analysis for energy principles and how they fit together in practice.
• Apply practical techniques for GIS in the energy sector in day-to-day implementation.

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• Geo-tag monitoring data collected through mobile survey tools
• Map indicator performance against programme and administrative boundaries

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• Map water point locations and track functionality status over time
• Analyse sanitation coverage against population and settlement data

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• Navigate the ArcGIS geodatabase model and manage vector and raster data
• Apply correct coordinate systems and projections to spatial datasets

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• Handle spatial data in R using the sf package
• Apply spatial statistics including Moran's I and spatial regression using spdep

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• Preprocess digital elevation models including sink filling and error correction
• Perform flow direction and flow accumulation analysis

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Apply the water balance and describe the key processes of the hydrological cycle.
• Analyse rainfall, evaporation and streamflow records, including quality control and gap filling.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Distinguish hazard, exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity and explain how they combine into risk.
• Source and prepare spatial data from satellite imagery, elevation models, national datasets and field surveys.