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This video, created by Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT), discusses ground truth remote sensing imagery. The video covers the following topics: using remotely sensed imagery, classification and analysis, ground truthing, ground observations supporting remotely...

This module, developed by the Lane Community College MAPS GIS Program, is "an applied exercise that explores the connection between groundwater, surface water, and potential water quality impairments." On the site, visitors will find a link to the module guide and links to the web-based maps on two...

This webpage from the GeoTech Center includes a syllabus, and a number of lectures and lab exercises from the Spatial Analysis of a Crime model course. The course "provides an analysis of different methods and techniques of representing spatial crime data through the use of various computer-based...

Course Description: This course, developed by the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technology Education Consortium (UASTEC) at Del Mar College, covers the fundamentals of digital mapping with Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). "The course cover[s] the full spectrum of UAS mapping from survey design to...

Course Description This course, developed by the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technology Education Consortium (UASTEC) at Del Mar College, covers planning and executing sUAS flight plans. "This course applies all of the theory and skills taught in the first two GUAS courses (101 and 102) through...

Course Description: This course, developed by the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technology Education Consortium (UASTEC) at Del Mar College, covers the fundamentals of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). "This foundation course will apply fundamental Geographic Information Science (GISC) theories,...

This article, from World Wide Learn, outlines geographic information systems (GIS) majors as part of their "Guide to College Majors." Sections include "What is GIS, "What Does a GIS Major Do?," "Trends in GIS Careers," "Preparing for a Degree in GIS," "What Can You Do With a College Degree in GIS," "...

This 6-page resource, from the Geospatial Center of the CUNY CREST Institute, includes an application for the fall 2020 high school workshop Feature Extraction from Satellite Datasets. This workshop was intended to "expose and train participants in feature extraction techniques using industry...

This video is from the Plenary session of the 2021 Esri Education Summit. The main topic of this session is design thinking in GIS education. This session explores "... design thinking as a strategy for teaching problem solving in a dynamic world." Viewers will "hear from educators who fuse design...

In this lesson from the MAPS GIS program at Lane Community College, students will estimate the impact of HIV/AIDS on world populations. They will look at adult and child case numbers as well as look at the effect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the existing public health care systems. Students will also...