GIS and Remote Sensing Courses

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Apply the ISO 19115 geographic metadata standard to real datasets
• Structure metadata records for imagery, vector, and raster data

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• Design mobile data collection forms with skip logic and validation rules
• Deploy forms using KoboToolbox, ODK Collect, and ArcGIS Survey123

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• Write and debug arcpy scripts for core geoprocessing tasks
• Automate buffer, clip, intersect, and spatial join operations with Python

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Navigate the QGIS interface and manage project files
• Manage and edit vector and raster data in QGIS

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Preprocess satellite imagery for land cover classification
• Collect and manage training samples for supervised classification

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• Explain how optical, thermal and radar sensors capture information relevant to climate monitoring.
• Locate, download and manage Landsat, Sentinel and MODIS archives.

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• Test for spatial autocorrelation using Moran's I statistic
• Identify statistically significant hot and cold spots using Getis-Ord Gi*

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• Prepare, project and manage spatial datasets for water analysis in QGIS.
• Delineate watersheds and stream networks from digital elevation models.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Understand core web-based GIS and mapping principles and how they fit together in practice.
• Apply practical techniques for spatial data acquisition in day-to-day implementation.