Geographic Information Systems   

Microsoft Access is a computerized database that allows you to manipulate, link, chart, query and report your data to customize the information you need.  You will learn to use Microsoft Access to create databases, view, format, manage and modify data tables and fields.  You will learn to create forms, queries, reports and explore data relationships using its pull-down menus, toolbars and dialog boxes.  Microsoft certified courseware publication is used to present the software features in a well-illustrated graphic format to prepare students to complete the appropriate Microsoft Certification exam #77-730 for students who wish to write the MOS (Microsoft Office Certification).  Students can identify Access Skills to potential employers by successfully completing the course capstone project to earn a skills badge. Prerequisite: Familiarity with Windows and file management concepts No Textbook Required. 

Software required: MS Access v. 2019/365

In this course students will explore internet mapping foundations, principles, and design. Students will integrate data into consumable web maps that empower end users to make better decisions and manipulate code to benefit their internet map product. We will explore implementation of systems from developing web services, handling data, and producing visually interesting map products. The topics we will study are Web Servers, Web Map Services, Hosting Data, Processing Data, web programming languages, conveying a story with an internet map, and empowering end users with analysis tools. Prerequisite: Introduction to GIS. No textbook required. Software Required: This course uses MapServer, Google Maps, Openlayers and Leaflet to construct spatially enabled Internet-web applications. Not required to buy any software. The software listed above will run in Windows, OS, and Linux but all instructions and tutorials are for the Windows environment.

Gain an understanding of GIS fundamental concepts and terminology including the role of GIS in business, government, surveying and natural resources. Learn how to create and manipulate data using GIS. Examine the collection, management, analysis and presentation of spatial data, concepts of database systems, data modeling and digital mapping. Textbook Required

Software Required: Quantum GIS (QGIS) - free software (Works on Windows, Macs and Linux) but all instructions and tutorials will be based on a Windows environment.

This course is designed to teach principles and applications of remote sensing at the introductory level. This science, which looks at the Earth from above, has made strides into commonplace use in recent times and the applications are useful to many professions including planners, environmental scientists, real estate, agriculture and many others. At the end of the course, the student should understand the basic principles of remote sensing, know how to use software to manipulate image data and perform preliminary interpretation of this data. Prerequisite: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems. Software required: The required program is QGIS, which is available for download at no additional cost at www.qgis.org. QGIS is available on Windows, MacOS X, Linux and Android. Textbook required.