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Upcoming GIS and Remote Sensing Courses

A list of upcoming GIS and remote sensing courses. This course list includes both virtual and in person learning opportunities. 

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Geographic Information Systems Certificate 

 UC-Davis via Coursera

February, 2016 - Virtual

UC-Davis is hosting a five course certificate program on using GIS, focusing on ArcMap and ArcCatalog. After the completion of four courses and a capstone project, participants are given a certificate. The first course starts in February 2016.

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International Snow Working Group-Remote Sensing (iSWGR)

March 29th to March 31st, 2016 - Seattle, Washington

This is a three part meeting: 1) to advance efforts by the International Snow Working Group-Remote Sensing (iSWGR) in promoting snow remote sensing efforts through research initiatives and education, 2) to continue planning for a large NASA (and possibly international) snow remote sensing field effort (SnowX), and 3) to educate the community about the potential of the ASO airborne snow observatory operated by JPL. 

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Training course on GIS and Remote Sensing, Analysis, Mapping and Visualization with Quantum GIS

Indepth Research Services

June 27th to July 1st, 2016 - Nairobi, Kenya

This training workshop is aimed at helping people in Kenya understand how well they can apply GIS and RS in their day to day running of their organization. The course will be offered in a mixture of lectures, demonstrations and hands-on exercises in Quantum GIS (QGIS). The registration deadline is June 20th, 2016.

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Spatial Ecology, Geospatial Analysis and Remote Sensing for Conservation

Smithsonian Museum Support Centre

September 26th to October 7th, 2016 – SCBI, Front Royal, VA, USA

The SMSC is hosting a course on using geospatial analysis, spatial ecology and remote sensing. It will feature the use of ArcGIS, ArcMap Spatial Analyst. ERDAS Imagine, QGIS, R and Geospatial Modeling Environment (GME). This course will be held at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. For first consideration, apply before July 11th, 2016.

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Intorduction to GIS workshop 2016

UCLA

Online

UCLA is hosting an online introduction to GIS software, specifically ESRI software. 

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