GIS Technology at Professional School of Montemor –o- Velho

Introduction

• GIS is a system based on hardware, software, geographic data and computacional procedures, that it allows users to analyze, manage and represent the real world • In GIS we can describe any element of our world in two ways: Location Information:

Where is it?

Attribute Information:

What is it?

Species: Oak Height: 15m Age: 75 Yrs

51°N, 112°W

Introduction

• GIS stores geographic data as layers • With these layers and the relation between then, you can begin to ask question about areas and discover relationships among the features

Our GIS Course

• Professional School of Montemor, was pioneer in Portugal in the education course of intermidate technicians with the creation in 1994 of the GIS • This course has three years of studies • In these three years, our students learn subjects related to the topic of GIS, such as, cartography, databases, GPS, Spatial Analyst, and others

Our GIS Course

• In this picture we can observe the curriculum of the course:

Sociocultural Component Scientific Component

Disciplines

Technique, Technological and Practical Component

Portuguese English Philosophy Mathematics Geography History Planning and Territorial order Cartography and Photo interpretation Computer science Computer Aided Drawing GIS

Annual Hours First Year Secund Year Third Year

100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 120 80 100 120 80 100 120 80 120 80 100 140 160 160 80 120 240 160 80 120 240

Total

300 300 300 300 360 240 440 240 340 140 640

Our GIS Course

• In the third year of the course, students will have to develop a final project, called Professional Skill Project • This project consists on the application of the knowledge acquired throughout the three years of the course • When students finish their courses with a good final mark, they will be skilled for: – analysing and interpreting all the information to introduce in the GIS where it operates, having for bases the urban drawing, planning and territorial order

Our GIS Course

– reading and analysing cartographic data and air photography – integrating and validating geographic data, proceeding from different formats and source (example, GPS data) – organizing and making the management of databases – elaborating digital cartography • After the course, students can go to University or start working in public or private institutions

Our GIS Course

• During these ten years of the course, some good projects have been developed by our students • Last year, a student developed a final project to find a new golf course location in our Municipality • Let’s go see some aspects of this project