Real-World GIS

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Free Online Course: Real-World GIS provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Real-World GIS is taught by Jason VanHorn.

Overview
  • Get solutions to real-world GIS challenges, such as collecting quality data, creating projections, and finding a GIS job.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • What you should know before watching this course
    • Using the exercise files
    • Using the challenges in this course
    1. The Top GIS Questions
    • The seven most common GIS questions
    2. Building a GIS Layer
    • Exploring GIS trends
    • Exploring GIS data with the National Map Viewer
    • Finding imagery data using EarthExplorer
    • Working with US Census data via TIGER products
    • Exploring agriculture with CropScape
    • Accessing data in proprietary formats
    • Accessing data in catalog formats
    3. Exploring GIS Data Formats
    • Understanding the type of data you have
    • Understanding coverage data
    • Understanding shapefile data
    • Understanding geodatabases
    • Raster data model history and formats
    • Sharing GIS data
    4. Understanding Projections
    • Working with scale and graticules
    • Exploring developable surfaces
    • Using geoids, spheroids, and datums
    • Putting it all together in ArcGIS
    5. Inexpensive GIS Data Collection
    • Collecting geospatial data
    • Adding map data to a spatial database
    • Adding scanned images to a spatial database
    • Adding GPS data to a a spatial database
    • Advanced collection techniques in GPS
    • Exploring open-source approaches to GIS data
    6. Building a GIS Project from Scratch
    • Challenge: Get the data
    • Solution: Get the data
    • Challenge: Visualize the data
    • Solution: Visualize the data
    • Challenge: Isolate the data
    • Solution: Isolate the data
    • Challenge: Attributes of the data
    • Solution: Attributes of the data
    • Challenge: Analysis of the data
    • Solution: Analysis of the data
    • Challenge: Build new data
    • Solution: Build new data
    • Challenge: Import new data
    • Solution: Import new data
    • Challenge: Convert your data
    • Solution: Convert your data
    7. Geospatial Data Services
    • Understanding ArcGIS for Server
    • Connecting a client to a GIS server
    • Working with ArcGIS.com
    • Using ArcGIS.com efficiently in the client
    8. Mastering the GIS Interview
    • Exploring the types of GIS jobs
    • Portals for GIS jobs
    • Preparing for general interview questions
    • Preparing for specific interview questions
    Conclusion
    • Next steps