Dan Ames, Professor
Professor at Brigham Young University
Email Address: Dan.Ames@byu.eduBYU
Completed: Intro to GIS
This course is a practice Intro to a GIS course offered at BYU under CEEN 214. Once upon approval, this content will be transfer to the official CEEN214 consolidated course.
Enrollment is Closed
About This Course
This module is an extraction of one-week worth of Geomatics that is taught at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah. The entire course is a semester long (12 weeks) class with three university credits.
This is No. 1 out of 12 modules. The learner should take the course (Geomatics) in the sequence as later modules require knowledge in previous sections.
Topics Covered
Introduction to GIS
Basic navigation of ArcGIS Pro
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, you should be able to:
- describe what a GIS is and how a GIS is used to support decision makings
- interpret data represented on GIS with different features and attribute tables
- iidentify key capabilities of GIS and its analytical tools.
Prerequisites
There is no prerequisite for this module
Course Authors
Target Audience
Students who are new to GIS
Tools Needed
Testbook: GIS Fundamentals: A first Text on Geographic Information Systems
Software: ArcGIS Pro
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1: Does this course require programming skills, in what language?
No. Eventually Python will help.