Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Course
This practical GIS course equips you with essential skills for spatial data handling, terrain analysis, and professional map production to inform environmental decisions.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This short, practical Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Course teaches you how to find, evaluate, and clean open spatial data, work confidently with DEMs, land use, and hydrology, and build robust erosion risk, land‑use suitability, and environmental sensitivity models. You will also learn clear cartographic design, map production, and reporting skills to support data‑driven environmental decisions.
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Develop skills
- GIS suitability modeling: build land-use, erosion, and sensitivity maps fast.
- DEM terrain analysis: derive slope, hydrology, and riparian buffers for planning.
- Open spatial data sourcing: find, assess, and document high-quality GIS layers.
- Clean GIS data workflows: fix geometries, reproject, clip, and align rasters.
- Professional map outputs: design clear decision-ready maps and concise reports.
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