GISCIENCE.it has announced a course on "Introduction to GIScience: Principle and techniques for application development, visualisation and spatial analysis" a 40 hours course scheduled from April to June 2008.
The course, adopting a theoretical/practical approach, will cover Fundamentals of GIS, Spatial data and modelling, ArcGIS 8/9™ introduction, Relational and geographic databases, Data acquisition, editing and data quality (metadata), Spatial analysis.
The course will also address on Further issues in GIScience: education and project management: the debate on GIS, GI System or GIScience? From a technical to an epistemological approach. GIScince education in the private and public sector, the role of distance learning and part-time graduate studies of international institutions (UNIGIS, City University,Birkbeck College, della Penn State University). GIScience role in the organisations, integration with the traditional information systems, prototyping techniques, cost/benefits analysis (SWOT, Boston matrix). Foundation of distributed client-server architectures: from Desktop to GIS Internet GIS.
Mode details on the course can be found at www.GISCIENCE.it
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The young researcher forum for Geographic Information Science aims to help participants of the GI-Days 2007 and other young researchers in field to stay in contact. The forums can be used to discuss current trends in GIScience, to get in contact with other researchers in the field, and to discuss problems and ideas regarding your ongoing (PhD) projects.
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