Spatial Mapping for Beginners: From App to GIS Map
A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer system that analyzes and displays geographically referenced information. Learn how to use freely available technology to collect spatial data in the field and design high quality maps.
Provider
Scotland's Rural College, ParkgateEnquire via the Scotland's Rural College website.
Description
This two-day course enables beginners to learn how to create, collect, and map field survey data through freely available smartphone technology. The course is aimed at ecologists (NGOs, consultants, researchers), landowners and land managers within agriculture, forestry and estates, surveyors and a variety of other industries with limited/basic knowledge of GIS. Through a combination of user-friendly smart phone apps and open-source mapping software (QGIS), participants learn how to gather, manipulate, and share spatial data. The course will demonstrate how smart phone apps can facilitate the collection of a range of spatial data, including habitat forest surveying and mapping protected species. Participants learn how to design their own surveys from scratch, collect spatial data in the field and import data into QGIS. In Barony’s state of the art digital classroom attendees are shown how to manipulate the data in QGIS to create stylish maps for presentation purposes. While no experience in GIS is required, attendees should be competent in the use of computers, including Windows operating systems, and they should understand the value of spatial mapping with respect to ecological surveying.
About Scotland's Rural College
It's not just agriculture and farming - at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) we offer learning and expertise to support the natural economy and meet the global challenges of tomorrow. From vocational training and CPD to postgraduate qualifications, our course offerings cover everything from agriculture to zoonoses & epidemiology -and a world of options in between.
Peatland Training Fund
The Peatland Training Fund, was established by NatureScot Peatland ACTION to support those already working in peatland restoration or keen to start, by providing the opportunity to develop their skills and to grow and develop in the sector.
Next Generation Practical Training Fund
The Next Generation Practical Training Fund has been established by Scottish Government with an aim to support those relatively new to agriculture, by providing the opportunity for skills development and training on the practicalities of agricultural practice as well as wider business and sustainability skills, in order to help them secure, sustain and progress their careers.
