Hands-on Training Course on Using a Geographic Information System 

Training course

$850

The Iracambi Research Center in Minas Gerais, Brazil, is pleased to offer a series of 19 day hands-on GIS courses between March and July 2005.  The course is designed for people who are familiar with the idea of a Geographic Information System, but who have never had hands on experience.
You will learn to:
•           Understand the role of GIS in conservation/land use planning ;
•           Learn how to collect and enter data using the GPS;
•           Learn how to interpret and map the data you have collected.
.           Learn how to use aerial photography to assist in mapmaking.      
    
 Since it is becoming increasing easy give a geographical base to almost any kind of scientific study, GIS is now being used in many different fields: in public health planning to map critical areas of health risks, in biological inventory work, in demographic planning, tax collection – in short, in any situation where geographic data is used. It is getting harder and harder to escape the need for familiarity with the concept.

 We use the GIS in our work in conservation planning, and we shall be using this as the model for the course. Students will select the most critical resources in the conservation area and decide how they can best be protected. All theoretical work will be reinforced by fieldwork. This field work will feed into our own GIS system which forms the basis for land management/conservation planning in the local area. 
 
The starting dates will be: March 14; April 18; May16; June 13 and July 18.

Caixa Postal No.1, Rosário da Limeira, 36878-000, Minas Gerais, 36878-000, Brazil

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