Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Community Course
Course details
About the course
The aims of the Geographic Information Systems micro-credential are as follows:
- To gain knowledge and skills that are directly relevant to be employed for scientific investigations, resource management, and development planning.
- To provide advanced level knowledge of Geographic Information Systems software, specifically ArcGIS pro
- To produce professional practitioners who are well regarded by employers.
Topics:
- Introduction to GIS terminology and functionality
- Work and create GIS maps
- Introduction to spatial analysis and solving geographic problems using GIS as an analysis tool
- Understanding raster and vector data
- Understanding overlays and buffers
- Symbolizing categorical data
- Symbolizing quantitative data
- Labelling map features
- Managing tables
- Editing features and attributes
- Creating geodatabases and feature classes
- Add data into geodatabases
- Edit GIS data
- Align spatial data
About the provider
Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) provides quality tertiary education and training across a wide range of subjects and qualifications. From certificates to postgraduate studies, we offer NZQA programmes for students to learn at a level and pathway that suits them.
We are home to the Zero Fees Scheme and are the only tertiary provider in New Zealand to offer a no tuition cost education to domestic NZ students for every year of study, at all levels.
We offer SIT programmes at campuses in Invercargill, Christchurch, Queenstown, Gore, and online through SIT2LRN Distance Learning.
We also have specialised faculties in music and rural education - MAINZ – Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand (Christchurch) and Telford in Balclutha, South Otago.