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A GIS operates on many levels has drastically changed over the past few decades to become an essential tool for most urban planning, and resource management organizations. On the most basic level, GIS can be …
GIS stands for A geographic information system, that is an integrated system of computer hardware, software, and users linking data, images and other resource data in a spatially geographically referenced format.
A GIS operates on many levels has drastically changed over the past few decades to become an essential tool for most urban planning, and resource management organizations. On the most basic level, GIS can be used for simple digital cartography, to create various types of maps. However the real power of GIS is through its abilities to use both spatial and statistical methods to analyze attribute and geographic information together. The end result of such an analysis can be vast amounts of derivative information, interpolated information or prioritized information.
GIS technology can be used for resource and utilities management, modeling, assessments, development planning, cartography, route planning and many other applications.
Click here to learn more about these and other aspects of the GIS field including projects related to spatial database modeling, mobile mapping, cartography, and interactive web mapping.
More Canadian GIS / Geomatics Programs
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New Brunswick Community College
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
Program(s): GIS Advanced Diploma
Prerequisites: University degree or College Diploma
Info:
The GIS Advanced Diploma is designed to add technical hands on GIS skills, while building upon students already established unique background in various related disciplines. Team projects incorporate GIS analysis, computer mapping and applied programming.
Team projects provide opportunities for you to apply and demonstrate the technology tools in a real project setting. The projects are structured around current industry initiatives in three key disciplines – GIS analysis, computer mapping and applied programming. The projects help you to further develop problem-solving techniques and work flow strategies required by a wide range of GIS industries.
NOTE: NBCC announced that they will be discontinuing their GIS Advanced Diploma program next year, any students currently enrolled in the program will be supported through the next academic year to program completion in June 2013. More Details …
[source: nbcc.ca]
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BCIT – (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
Location: Burnaby, British Columbia Program(s): Advanced Diploma
Pre Req. College or University Diploma
Info / Description:
BCIT has more then 20 years of experience delivering advanced GIS technology programs and courses to Canadians, their GIS program has long established as one of the more reputable programs in the country for producing highly skilled and sought-after graduates.
The BCIT programs were designed for university or college graduates that have a background in a related discipline, the program helps establish GIS skills and incorporates them to work ethics where students can practice real world situations with real industry research projects or workplace practicum. The BCIT program is available as a part-time basis as well with completion ranging from 2-4 years.
Contact Info
Address:
3699 Willingdon Avenue
Burnaby, British Columbia
V5G 3H1
(604) 432-8378 Polytechnic Institute gis@bcit.ca
Web Site:
See the BCIT GIS program page for more details.
[source: bcit.ca]
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Mohawk College GIS
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
GIS Programs: Urban and Regional Planning Technician – Geographic Information Systems
Mohawk College GIS: The two year Urban and Regional Planning Technician diploma with specializations in GIS at Mohawk College (Fennell Campus) in Hamilton, Ontario provides a chance to learn land use urban planning principles, planning laws, as well as the process and documentation necessary to create active and sustainable communities. Students develop surveying and GIS application skills. It is a very hands-on education system consisting of several labs and practical projects spanned over four semesters.
Contact Info
P.O. Box 2034
Hamilton, ON
Canada
L8N 3T2
905-575-1212 ext 3138
[sources: mohawkcollege.ca ]
GIS Tracking Technology Shines in the Light of Healthcare History
It’s universally known that technology has changed the medical field forever. Even a trip to a rural doctor’s office reveals equipment the patient could see in any major city. This awareness has helped the general public to finally become aware of the skill levels possessed by care providers. For generations, most people not in the field assumed that a neighbor with an associate degree in nursing simply changed bedpans and took temperatures. Today, however, both nurses and doctors are directly involved in using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to protect the public from some potentially lethal threats. Nearly a century ago, this wasn’t the case.
The Stakes
In 1918, several soldiers at what is now Fort Riley, Kansas reported sick with what at first appeared to be routine flu symptoms. No one knew at the time, but these soldiers were the first of tens of millions worldwide who would contract a newly evolved strain of influenza. Over the next fifteen months, at least 50 million humans perished as a result of the fast spreading, quick killing pathogen. The name of the pandemic itself, the Spanish Influenza, illustrates today how the lack of accurate geographic tracking was a major factor in the worldwide death toll.
Scholars have since pinned down the initial outbreak as having begun at Fort Riley and then spread rapidly by soldiers moving from training camps to what would soon become occupation duty in Europe. From ships, train stations, military bases and ports across the globe, the virus spread, mutated and spread again, being recognized as a pandemic only after it has established itself in Spain, by no means the location of patient zero.
Desperate health officials in the United States Army led the American effort to track and contain the epidemic. Despite truly heroic efforts, the influenza mutated once again, only then becoming misleadingly dormant for decades. In 2009, another potentially catastrophic flu pandemic was identified. By then, however, GIS was a part of the World Health Organization’s arsenal to prevent the carnage of 1918-1920.
A Step Ahead of a Killer
Officially known as the H1N1 flu, though colloquially called Swine Flu, the virus spread virtually worldwide during its roughly year and a half emergence. Unlike its deadly counterpart of the early 20th Century, medical personnel were able to track outbreaks worldwide, buying time enough to employ defenses such as school and other closings to mitigate the spread of the virus and the implementation of mass vaccinations. Nurses and doctors were, from the very start of the flu breakout, a computer click away from up-to-date information from the World Health Organization and national health departments on where the spreading was occurring, if the virus had mutated and how best to respond.
Armed with first-rate information provided and by GIS tracking technology, nurses went into communities and educated officials and ordinary citizens about the facts about the virus. The relatively low death rate – over 25,000, including 428 Canadian citizens [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic_in_Canada] – led to calls of “overkill” on the part of the health community, a conclusion that may well have been a luxury provided by technology at the front lines of a war contained.
Dichotomy of Success
That such an impression of overblown responses seems to defy the knowledge of what havoc an unchecked pandemic can wreak may be, in part, due to the high degree of success provided by GIS and the medical community. But as more and more GIS devices are used to save lives on smaller scales, the value of such technology may be best seen by less than global standards. With future generations of nursing and medical doctors sure to learn how to use GIS technology with the same degree of skill as they use their stethoscope, recognition of its importance is assured. Among the teams of professionals called upon to thwart the lethality of the next major health threat, nurses and doctors will be joined by those in the geomatics field as they fight real killers.
About the author: Lindsey Paco is a freelance author who writes about career search strategies and social media. She lives in the Indianapolis area where she enjoys cycling. [http://www.coloradotech.edu/Degree-Programs/Associate-Degree-In-Nursing]
Red River College GIS Technology
Advanced GIS Technology Certificate
The Advanced GIS Technology diploma at Red River College is a one-year intense program. It combines a mix of remote sensing, cartography, GIS modeling, CAD and other courses to build your knowledge in GIS.
It also connects students with potential employers through a thesis research project. This gives students a taste of how GIS is being used in the industry. However, you need a Bachelor’s Degree to get in this program as a prerequisite.
The program consists of five themes:
- Technology management
- Data collection
- Data manipulation
- Data analysis
- Cartographic presentation
The program emphasizes understanding of the underlying concepts and technology as opposed to training operators of specific software products. The program provides maximum flexibility in course content.
Address
2055 Notre Dame Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3H 0J9Contact Info
204.632.2327
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