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Fundamentals of GIS

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University of California, Davis

Fundamentals of GIS

1831 ratings

Curso 1 de 5 em Specialization Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Explore the world of spatial analysis and cartography with geographic information systems (GIS). In this class you will learn the basics of the industry’s leading software tool, ArcGIS, during four week-long modules: Week 1: Learn how GIS grew from paper maps to the globally integrated electronic software packages of today. You will install ArcGIS on your computer and learn how to use online help to answer technical questions. Week 2: Open up ArcGIS and explore data using ArcMap. Learn the foundational concepts of GIS, how to analyze data, and make your first map. Week 3: Make your own maps! Symbolize data and create an eye-catching final product. Week 4: Share your data and maps and learn to store and organize your data. Take Fundamentals of GIS as a standalone course or as part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization. By completing the first class in the Specialization you will gain the skills needed to succeed in the full program. Students who need an ArcGIS license will receive a non-commercial, 1 year student license for participation in this course and specialization.

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Course Introduction and Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

In this module, we will cover course expectations, give you a quick overview of GIS and what's great about it, take a first look at ArcGIS and identify key elements in the interface, and define core geospatial concepts and terminology. In Section 2, we will discuss options for desktop GIS, the history of GIS and how it's used today, discuss resources and help that you can use, and lay out core skills that are relevant to you as a GIS analyst. We'll close out by showing you how to get a copy of ArcGIS for this course, and with a tutorial on getting started in ArcGIS.

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Nick Santos
Geospatial Applications Researcher
Center for Watershed Sciences

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Welcome to Fundamentals of GIS.

My name is Nick Santos and I'm the Instructor for this course.

I'm also a GIS developer at the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences,

where I develop databases and software to help solve California's water problems.

In this course, we're not going to make you GIS expert right off the bat,

but we are going to teach you everything you need to know to open data, view data,

make maps.

And generally, be able to use GIS at a functional level.

To do that, we're going to go over major GIS Software packages

with a focus on ArcGIS, which is a very common GIS package used in the industry.

We're also going to get you the concepts and terminology you need

in order to be able to communicate with people who are speaking GIS terms like me,

right now and also in order to be able to use GIS.

Then we're going to go over viewing, loading and sharing data in ArcGIS, that

includes everything from opening up your data and exploring it to making a map.

Finally, the course is going to finish with common GIS datasets you need in order

to analyze your own data.

That's elation data for the world, that's water data.

It's also information that you can correlate with data you're taking in your

own job.

If you want to go even further, you should come and take the specialization with us.

That's four courses and a capstone project that go much more in depth into GIS.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

It covers Analysis Workflows that are really common in GIS.

It covers creating and editing your own data.

It covers making maps and beautiful maps and then Analysing Your Own Data in GIS,

bringing it into the software, developing workflows and getting results and

answer to your own questions.

Once you're done with this,

you'll have everything you need to know in order to be able to use GIS as an analyst.

There's so much more you can know after this specialization, but

you'll be very functional in GIS.

If you do the verified certificate with Coursera, you get to do a Capstone project

and walk away with a project that you completed all on your own.

That could be a dataset, that could be a map or

anything you want to explore to yourself.

I encourage you to do that,

as that's where you're going to get the most practice and experience.

I'm really excited about this specialization and this course and

I hope you are too.

Let's go get started.

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