Water Resource Management (Hennef, Germany)

GIS is the tool to communicate spatial information. GIS supports decision makers by putting together bits and pieces of information and showing them the “big picture”.

The course provides a profound theoretical and practical basis on GIS that is necessary to understand and work with advanced applications in the fields of water resources and related disciplines. The course addresses the growing need for professional GIS guidelines and covers all topics and techniques relevant for GIS starters, such as

• Principles of goe-informatics: Basic concepts of GIS like data input, management, analysis and presentation; thematic case studies, best practice examples,
• GIS daza formats: Working with vector data, raster data, Triangulated Rectangular Networks (TIN), tabular data, importing and exporting data,
• Geo-database management: Creating a logical model, building and population a geo-database, working with topology, expanding model capabilities and adding complex components,
• Coordinate systems and map projections: Georeferencing, identify coordinate systems of geo-data, modify standard projections, discuss geographic transformations, address different properties of various map projections, trouble-shooting regarding common coordinate system and projection problems.
• Creating new geographica data: Digitizing and editing, working with GPS devices and software,
• Analyzing geographic data: Querying data, geoprocessing, geostatistics, 3D-analysis, optimizing workflows,
• Cartofraphic presentation techniques: Layout and design techniques, creating labels and annotations, report development.