Date: 21 October 2019 - 25 October 2019
Course ID: ADDQ067/2019
Duration: 5 Days
Fee US$ - VAT is not included: 4700 US$
Venue: London / UK
This introductory course seeks to define the Risk Reduction Management Centre (RRMC) and set out the clear Goals and Objectives for using GIS in support of RRMC operations. The information provided sets out guidelines for how the RRMC will typically operate.
Objectives:• Build local capacity for risk assessment, analysis and management for the purpose of informed decision making at a local level and improved coordination with national level
• Strengthen use of risk management tools such as hazard and risk studies, vulnerability assessments, GIS mapping, and database management
• Strengthen community-based early warning systems and ensure they are connected with risk reduction mechanisms in the various regional corporations and country as a whole
• Notably the above places deliberate focus on capacity building improvements at the local level.
1. Managers interested in gaining experience in GIS project management.
2. Leaders looking to bridge the digital divide in the modern information age with the GIS mechanism
3. Engineers looking to become GIS managers and coordinators.
4. Programmers and categories operating in the following sectors:
• Employees of public institution or sector (governmental, institutional)
• Workers in the private sector
• Employees in the educational sector (teachers, academics, researchers)
• Urban Planning and Urban Design Engineers
• Engineers coordinate sites and agriculture
• Specialists in the field of geography and remote sensing
• Specialists in the field of GIS
• Specialists in natural disasters
• Responsible for the division of state land
• Researchers and academics
• Researchers in marketing, real estate marketing and investment
• governments
• Specialists in the field of tourism and archeology
• Communications specialists
DAY 1:
Introduction
1 - Understanding GIS
What is GIS?
GIS Foundation
What makes data spatial?
Data Types
Data Models
Metadata
GIS Functions
2 – GPS
3 - Map Design
Basic Elements of Map Design
Commandments of Map Design
DAY 2:
4 - GIS Applications
Free Open Source Software
Commercial GIS Packages
5 - GIS in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
GIS for Disaster Management
Usefulness of GIS in Disaster Management
Leveraging GIS Locally
DAY 3:
6 - GIS in the Workplace (RRMC GIS Operations – MRCRC)
GIS Integration
To Start
7 - GIS Tutorial
review
DAY 4:
8 – Scenarios
9- Contract
review
DAY 5:
• review