Fauna & Flora and WILDLABS invite you to a free, asynchronous, and four-part e-learning series that will build your confidence using GIS within conservation work. The courses are beginner-friendly and will have you working from fundamental theory up to using spatial analysis and geoprocessing in real-world scenarios.
This is Course 1: What is GIS and why should you care? It is suitable for someone completely new to GIS, or those who want to strengthen their GIS foundations. You don't need any software to follow along.
Course 1 will cover:
- What GIS is and how it can be used within conservation
- The fundamentals of GIS data
- An overview of coordinate systems
- Compelling cartography
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This course is provided by Fauna & Flora for free.
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Participants
Below are the WILDLABS members who have enrolled in and completed this course.
Wildlife ecologist and conservationst
Engineering student (Smart Grids & Intelligent Networks, IPN Mexico City). Building open-source wildlife telemetry hardware for sea turtle nesting monitoring in Mexico. Interested in LoRa sensor networks, conservation IoT, and animal movement data.
MPS Wildlife Conservation & Advocacy Student/ Protector of Wildlife
Environmental scientist with experience in natural resource management, especially water, wildlife, forestry, and biodiversity conservation.
I work in the field of environmental conservation.
PhD in Applied Machine Learning & Bio-inspired AI. Looking to transition to a career in Conservation Technology.
Further Reading
Want to learn more? There are many user guides, tutorials, and blog posts out there to learn more GIS! Here are just a few, but remember you can search "*what you want to learn**software you're using* tutorial" and more often than not help will come up.
GIS Fundamentals
- The GIS Certification Institute provide a great overview of the fundamentals of GIS data
- Mango map have a good simplified introduction to GIS
Coordinate Systems
- Also by Mango map and useful for finding coordinate systems is What UTM Zone am I in?
- The True Size Of... helps to visualise the effect of coordinate systems
Compelling Cartography
- If you're using ArcGIS Pro, John Nelson's YouTube has some great tutorials on how to create beautiful maps!
- If you're using QGIS there are many blog posts and videos teaching you different cartographic techniques, like this one!
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