At the end of the course, the participants will be able to:

• • Gain knowledge in managing a GIS Project in all its phases: User Needs Survey, Needs Assessment, Database Design, System Design, Data Conversion, Application Development, and Training.
  • Get hands on experience in managing a GIS project
  • Acquire all skills needed to prepare a GIS project documentation such as request for proposal, proposal, and various project deliverable documentations.
  • Better understand the issues of staffing and budgeting, team work, and consultant-client relationship through real world case studies

• Introducing the GIS technology and its basic principles.
• Highlighting the link between GIS and the related sciences.
• An overview to the GIS package “ARC/VIEW”
• Discussing how to pick a proper geographical Information System

Bidding a GIS project

• • Introducing GIS Technology Advances
  • Understanding and Formulating a Typical RFP
  • Initiating the Formal Negotiation Process

Implementing the Project

• • Setting Milestones
  • Managing Personnel
  • Adopting Technology
  • Tackling Problems
  • Setting Expectations

Evaluation and Documentation

• • Writing Deliverables
  • Submitting Progress Reports
  • Looking Ahead

Introduction to GIS

• • What is GIS?
  • Roots on GIS.
  • GIS as a product of well-defined sciences.
  • What GIS can do.
  • Strategies for the introduction of GIS.

Data sources of GIS

• • Nature and sources of spatial data.
  • Concepts of Digital Mapping (DM).
  • Data capture techniques.
  • Data structure and restructure.
  • DATA RESTRUCUTRE.
  • Surveying and GIS (GPS, Remote Sensing, Projection, scale).

Introduction to Database Design

• • Database and Database management system.
  • Database concept
  • Concept of the Relational database.
  • SQL (Structured Query Language).
  • Logistics
  • Teaching methods
  • ArcGIS products
  • ArcGIS functionality
  • ArcGIS desktop applications
  • ArcGIS extensions
  • Working with geographic data
  • Storing geographic data
  • ArcGIS spatial data formats
  • ArcGIS tabular data formats
  • Features and topology
  • Spatial relationships with shared geometry
  • Spatial relationships with coincident geometry
  • Storing spatial relationships
  • Using Arc Catalog
  • Adding tables from existing sources
  • Setting viewable data
  • Managing file types visible in Arc Catalog
  • Tables options
  • Raster options
  • Searching for data
  • Load class database
  • Working with layers and maps
  • Setting Arc Map options
  • Creating quantitative displays
  • Choosing a classification method
  • Using natural breaks
  • Using quantile and equal interval
  • Using standard deviation
  • Excluding features from a classification
  • Normalizing your data
  • Graduated and proportional symbols
  • Showing quantity with dot density
  • Displaying multiple attributes
  • Symbology
  • Style sheets
  • Using the Style Manager
  • Creating custom symbols
  • Creating custom lines and markers
  • Using the Advanced Drawing Options
  • Ways to create a map
  • Building templates
  • Changing templates
  • Exporting a map

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration